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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monayuris" data-source="post: 7931611" data-attributes="member: 6859536">Nice video. Doing dishes and walking the cat are the two things that take the most time away from my D&D.Ben's (from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/questingbeast" target="_blank">Questing Beast</a>) quote is spot on.I disagree with your definition of a random encounter. An encounter that is not fun or does not provide exposition or choices is just a bad encounter, It does not necessarily equate to a random encounter. A random encounter does not need to lack any of those.A random encounter can be fun, it can provide exposition (shows the players what kinds of threats they may face in the area) and can provide choice. If you are a DM using random encounters, taking a randomly rolled encounter and being able to improvise a context is a very good skill to develop.It is perfectly fine to pick an encounter from the table that you want to run, but I prefer rolling on random tables as a DM. I find that, when I just pick things, I tend to fall back on common choices and I pick creatures I like or am familiar and comfortable with. When I roll randomly, I give the dice an oracular power to decide what happens. This often results in situations that I would not normally come up with on my own. Sometimes the results and consequence of a randomly rolled encounter can take the game in new and fresh directions.</blockquote>