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<blockquote data-quote="Skarn Rapajya" data-source="post: 3938302" data-attributes="member: 52650">I like the advanced tables, but I often wind up not using them.&nbsp; I play solo, and I don't have much space to spread out, so I use <a href="http://www.gryc.ws/autorealm.htm" target="_blank">AutoREALM</a> as my gaming table.&nbsp; It becomes VERY cumbersome to add all of the little features as I go while using mapping software.The trade off is effort vs. detail.&nbsp; When I'm solo, the hack &amp; slash fix overrides my love of fluff and detail.As for no doors, I've had this problem even with the BASIC dungeon tables, rolling that dead end corridor to start with.&nbsp; My house rule is that there's ALWAYS a secret door in that initial dead end.&nbsp; If the room I roll up on the other side has no further doors, then its the quest room and I have a quick adventure.-----Another option would be to rule the dead end as an empty cave you mistook for the real dungeon and start over.&nbsp; Maybe the bad guys left false tracks that fooled your ranger just long enough to let the villains warn their minions and so the random encounter tracker starts at setting 4 instead of 1 in the real dungeon.Once DB Wilderness comes out, maybe there's an ambush waiting outside this red herring.&nbsp; Roll as if in a side quest room (1d6-1 on the Quest Room Encounter Table) for the ambushers, then continue on to the real hideout.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Skarn Rapajya, post: 3938302, member: 52650"] I like the advanced tables, but I often wind up not using them. I play solo, and I don't have much space to spread out, so I use [URL=http://www.gryc.ws/autorealm.htm]AutoREALM[/URL] as my gaming table. It becomes VERY cumbersome to add all of the little features as I go while using mapping software. The trade off is effort vs. detail. When I'm solo, the hack & slash fix overrides my love of fluff and detail. As for no doors, I've had this problem even with the BASIC dungeon tables, rolling that dead end corridor to start with. My house rule is that there's ALWAYS a secret door in that initial dead end. If the room I roll up on the other side has no further doors, then its the quest room and I have a quick adventure. ----- Another option would be to rule the dead end as an empty cave you mistook for the real dungeon and start over. Maybe the bad guys left false tracks that fooled your ranger just long enough to let the villains warn their minions and so the random encounter tracker starts at setting 4 instead of 1 in the real dungeon. Once DB Wilderness comes out, maybe there's an ambush waiting outside this red herring. Roll as if in a side quest room (1d6-1 on the Quest Room Encounter Table) for the ambushers, then continue on to the real hideout. [/QUOTE]

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