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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7582232" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Always by setting. I ran a campaign once where the first random encounter (back in 2E) was an age 10 Green Dragon. It became more a narrative as the dragon attacked the elven city the game began in, but became a target for the characters when later on they were powerful enough to return and stop the dragon.At higher levels, I still had them "encounter" far weaker forces. Sometimes I narrated the battle to speed up play (since we knew the characters would dominate), other times we ran it out for the fun of it. I wouldn't award XP for these unless the characters actually learned by them (which occurred on occasion).But as long as you don't force the players into combat and allow them an out, no encounter need be inappropriate regardless of level of the characters and CR of the encounter.</blockquote>