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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7196669" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>Riiiiiight, they just happen to only happen where adventurers are and nowhere else.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Those are absolutely horrible examples. Reality is quite literally the opposite of what you just posted for both police and firefighters. Fires do happen everywhere, that's why you need fire fighters all over every city so that they can respond to where the fires break out. Fire fighters don't just go to a place and then a have fire(encounter) or 6-8 of them break out. Those fires would also happen without fire fighters being in the world at all. The same with cops. Cops rarely are someplace and have a crime happen where they are at. Instead, those crimes happen everywhere and the cops go to where those crimes(encounters) are happening to the NPCs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>All a "random" encounter is, is an encounter that is not part of the planned story. They don't have to be truly random. Not since the early editions, anyway. The DM coming up with an encounter for those 100 soldiers is still a "random" encounter, or a planned one. Either way it mirrors the mechanics, even if not rolled randomly. The same with the results of said encounter.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, gee howdy! We should have just asked you first. I guess your declaration settled the issue.</p><p></p><p>Or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7196669, member: 23751"] Riiiiiight, they just happen to only happen where adventurers are and nowhere else. Those are absolutely horrible examples. Reality is quite literally the opposite of what you just posted for both police and firefighters. Fires do happen everywhere, that's why you need fire fighters all over every city so that they can respond to where the fires break out. Fire fighters don't just go to a place and then a have fire(encounter) or 6-8 of them break out. Those fires would also happen without fire fighters being in the world at all. The same with cops. Cops rarely are someplace and have a crime happen where they are at. Instead, those crimes happen everywhere and the cops go to where those crimes(encounters) are happening to the NPCs. All a "random" encounter is, is an encounter that is not part of the planned story. They don't have to be truly random. Not since the early editions, anyway. The DM coming up with an encounter for those 100 soldiers is still a "random" encounter, or a planned one. Either way it mirrors the mechanics, even if not rolled randomly. The same with the results of said encounter. Well, gee howdy! We should have just asked you first. I guess your declaration settled the issue. Or not. [/QUOTE]
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