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<blockquote data-quote="Wepwawet" data-source="post: 4562853" data-attributes="member: 56398">In 3.5 at first I used the random encounter tables.Sometimes I just wanted them to fight, and the table didn't give me anything, or if it did, I'd just roll again to find a better monster.Soon it became very annoying and troublessome.So what I started doing was just throwing some monster when I found it was apropriate. And hand-picking the monster I thought was most apropriate, based on environment, time of day and all that.At first I would pretend to roll on random tables, but what for? I'd just say that at that time of day they had a &quot;random encounter&quot;And it worked fine!I believe this is also the 4E way, and I'm glad! Just use random encounters when they fit. The story is the most important thing, and silly randomness shouldn't break it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wepwawet, post: 4562853, member: 56398"] In 3.5 at first I used the random encounter tables. Sometimes I just wanted them to fight, and the table didn't give me anything, or if it did, I'd just roll again to find a better monster. Soon it became very annoying and troublessome. So what I started doing was just throwing some monster when I found it was apropriate. And hand-picking the monster I thought was most apropriate, based on environment, time of day and all that. At first I would pretend to roll on random tables, but what for? I'd just say that at that time of day they had a "random encounter" And it worked fine! I believe this is also the 4E way, and I'm glad! Just use random encounters when they fit. The story is the most important thing, and silly randomness shouldn't break it :) [/QUOTE]

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