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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 44080" data-attributes="member: 2067">Mix It UpI do a bit of both.First of all, the wilderness regions have very pre-defined ecosystems. They have things that prey on things and native humanoid communities and even things that regularly or occasionally eat a person. If they wander alone, unprotected, in a forest that has Green Dragons, they run the risk of meeting one at any level.However, any random encouter I roll I expect the PC's to live through. I'll give them some way out. A hint, a clue, a potent NPC guardian, whatever. Also, monsters in a random encounter are a lot less likely to fight to the death. They may get winged, or decide that the PC's are too much hassle, and leave. They think like a predator -- they want an easy meal. If that meal isn't easy, they'll give up the chase, even if they may be able to catch it anyway. And they don't eat unless they're hungry (they don't attack the PC's unless they want something). If worst comes to worst, an NPC may just save the bacon after one or two of them bite the dust, and make them "repay" it. It doesn't work mulituple times, but it'll work once or twice. The rest of the time, they get other "outs."...I only give them truly fatal encounters after they've slogged through minions, anyway. "Boss" battles of a higher CR than them. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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