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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telperion" data-source="post: 1812516" data-attributes="member: 15711">I use random encounter tables. However I have never used a random encounter table straight from the books. Don't really care for those, for one reason or another. Probably because whenever a party of PCs goes into an area where a pre-generated random encounter table would be useful they are either too low in level or two high in level. Either way I end up with a useless chart that doesn't add anything into the game. However, since I know my own players and their characters, I have a tendency to create my own random encounter tables. They are handcrafted for the party level, have just the kind of monsters I like to use, don't have any excess material, are custom designed for the campaign setting I'm using and so forth. With these kinds of tables I can roll out a random encounter and expect it to really add something to the session <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.As far as I know: I'm the only DM in my area who uses random encounter tables.If they are well crafted and thougth out, then they add to the  game in a fairly good way. The party feels there's more randomness in the world, but that randomness doesn't cause totally illogical or stupid results.No. The reasoning can be found above...Not everyone feels the same. If random encounter tables are simply taken out of the books without a moments thought and thrown at the players because the DM can't think of anything else, then: yes, it is poor DMing.</blockquote>

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