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<blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 6254680" data-attributes="member: 83996">I'm looking at the &quot;Ruins of Adventure&quot; modules for 1E right now (which I'm converting to 4E) and no where does it say to stop churning out random encounter when the party clears an area. There are some areas that say things like &quot;there are twenty 1st level thieves that will randomly attack the party in this mansion&quot;, but then there are charts that you just keep rolling on forever. So yes its a common problem of early editions even though it is not 100% universal.What you've personally observed is countered by what I've personally observed. I've seen many DMs that kept running random encounters long after we cleared a dungeon. I've ran it that way because sometimes a module would say there were X monsters that could be encounter and sometimes it didn't. I assumed that the times it said they didn't that it was meant to be infinite, because some were limited, why would they not limit the rest of them.No its an infinite problem. Especially if the party wants to grind a bit to level. Then they just keep resting in the dungeon killing whatever comes along. Also random encounters come up anytime the party is in an area for more than 10 minutes (in a dungeon) or 1 hour (in the wilderness) so they aren't just for when the party is on the move.I don't show up at your house and tell you how to play either, however this game is supposed to satisfy both of us and be easy to use by the new players. So at the very least they need to explain both methods (numbered wandering monsters and infinite random encounters), their advantages, and their pitfalls. Such as the whole 5 minute workday fix that infinite random encounters is, and the unreality it might produce.Blue Valkyrie got killed by another player!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lokiare, post: 6254680, member: 83996"] I'm looking at the "Ruins of Adventure" modules for 1E right now (which I'm converting to 4E) and no where does it say to stop churning out random encounter when the party clears an area. There are some areas that say things like "there are twenty 1st level thieves that will randomly attack the party in this mansion", but then there are charts that you just keep rolling on forever. So yes its a common problem of early editions even though it is not 100% universal. What you've personally observed is countered by what I've personally observed. I've seen many DMs that kept running random encounters long after we cleared a dungeon. I've ran it that way because sometimes a module would say there were X monsters that could be encounter and sometimes it didn't. I assumed that the times it said they didn't that it was meant to be infinite, because some were limited, why would they not limit the rest of them. No its an infinite problem. Especially if the party wants to grind a bit to level. Then they just keep resting in the dungeon killing whatever comes along. Also random encounters come up anytime the party is in an area for more than 10 minutes (in a dungeon) or 1 hour (in the wilderness) so they aren't just for when the party is on the move. I don't show up at your house and tell you how to play either, however this game is supposed to satisfy both of us and be easy to use by the new players. So at the very least they need to explain both methods (numbered wandering monsters and infinite random encounters), their advantages, and their pitfalls. Such as the whole 5 minute workday fix that infinite random encounters is, and the unreality it might produce. Blue Valkyrie got killed by another player! [/QUOTE]

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