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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scharlata" data-source="post: 2379495" data-attributes="member: 4806">Hi!I'm with you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Wilderness Encounters don't make me happy in general.I scan through the provided encounter systems (DMG/modules) and tone down the frequency.It slows down the game if you have to respond to 6 encounters per day. Player's get annoyed and may lose their focus.Sometimes I set encounters to lure the party away from boring locations or towards special/relevant adventure sites.It doesn't make sense to me if the party encounters too much wilderness critters, especially the dangeous ones, because there's no chain of food out there that supports their abundant existence. Furthermore, I don't like the idea very well of having "civilzed" people residing in the wilderness (small villages, out-of-the-way cottages) being surrounded by dangerous creatures all their life only to wait that some adventureres pop by to slaughter them at random.I pick some of the more plausible wilderness encounters provided by the charts and make my own chart. I use them sparingly and use them to steer the adventure as needed.Sometimes it's fun to let the critters do some uncommon nonviolent/nonaggressive thing, like party-spotting, begging, misleading, fraternize, intimidating and fleeing, trading goods, etc. instead of attacking the party.In general, use wilderness encounters as YOU see fit, rejecting any charts that are to restricting, unplausible, and/or just not fun.Kind regards nd good gaming</blockquote>

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