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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8801909" data-attributes="member: 22779">Again this is an issue where goals and play style run into the realities at a given table. The point of random encounters is to make healing a logistical resource. You drop encounters from time to time to interrupt rest or shave off some HP. But then the practicalities of the table step up. Combat takes about 39 minutes to resolve. Give or take. For me, six random encounters eats an entire session of time. (And honestly it would probably only take 4 encounters) That’s a huge chunk of time spent on something that no one at my table actually cares about. The encounters aren’t really dangerous. They don’t forward events or move towards any campaign or player goals. They are just there to make HP important. I could get exactly the same result with a 1 in 6 chance every hour of everyone taking 2d10 damage. I just saved hours of gameplay that I can now use to do stuff that the players actually want to do. If a campaign is thousands of hours long, then fair enough. You’ve got all the time in the world to do random encounters and whatnot. I do not have that. I have 80-100 sessions max. And very, very likely closer to 50 before real life ends the campaign. I’ve done the first two thirds of a campaign a thousand times. I no longer care about it. Get me to that last third as fast as possible because at least it won’t be doing the same stuff over and over again.</blockquote>

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