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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6712281" data-attributes="member: 6683613">I tend to assume that monsters, like seemingly everything else in the universe, follow a rough Pareto distribution, and the weakest 20% of species account for 80% of the population.  A creature the size of an adult dragon can have a range of hundreds of square miles, so there may only be a handful of them in all the land.  This is not to say that you won't get killed in the wilderness... just that you're several orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by a warband of gnolls.And monster populations in the wilderness are independent of character level.  You don't magically attract more powerful monsters, and they certainly don't magically scale with you.  So whether a given location is "deadly" or "easy"... that depends on whether you're 3rd level or 12th.</blockquote>