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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ART!" data-source="post: 8695142" data-attributes="member: 79926">This is pretty much my approach, too.To some degree this is an ADD thing, wherein I need as few things to worry about at the table as possible. I don't do random encounters at all, because that's something I'd have to do while running, in addition to everything else.So, I plan encounters, including "basic" encounters for an area. So if orcs roam the region the PCs are in, I'll plan and build major encounters, and also prebuild a few standard orc encounters of varying difficulties which I can drop in as I see fit. I mostly use the Encounter Builder in D&D Beyond for all that.We do milestone advancement, so when I feel like the PCs are due for the next level, I'll prepare a deadly encounter, but increasingly I'm trying to have ways in mind that they can work around that encounter and not have to kill everything.</blockquote>