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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cbas10" data-source="post: 1227596" data-attributes="member: 6459">Holy Crap!  That is an unusually good and interesting "random" encounter.  Found a critter...played it up according to the creature's normal behavior...and had a level-headed party that knows how to think.  Good encounter, sounds like a great game.As for worrying about PC death due to random encounters; that all depends on how you are handling it.  If the characters know that a journey is going to be dangerous (troll-infested swamps or whatever), then any "random" encounter is basically part of the storyline; however, "randomly" rolling a young adult red dragon for your 2nd level party to encounter - then mercilessly killing them because "It was a random encounter!" - is pretty lame.  Equally as lame is the tendancy for some DMs to roll for similar chances of random encounters, no matter where the PCs are.  If, for example that bullette was rolled up when they were travelling on a well-established trade route that stretched 75 miles between two cities, that might be a bit beyond acceptible.</blockquote>