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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5278145" data-attributes="member: 22779">Players get to know what monsters appear on the random encounter table in your adventures?&nbsp; I know mine certainly don't.And, even if I know that I can possibly meet, say, a basilisk in a given area, how exactly do I prepare for that?&nbsp; Random encounters are, by their nature, rather random.&nbsp; It's perfectly reasonable that a random encounter might occur while I'm camping.&nbsp; How does the person on watch prepare for a basilisk encounter that might occur and still be prepared for other encounters which may occur?You're going to tell me that players in your game can reasonably be able to discover every single creature that they can encounter in a given area?&nbsp; That, if your players do a reasonable amount of homework, there will be absolutely no unknown creatures in the adventure ahead of them?Or, are you claiming that snakes in AD&amp;D have a greater impact on the setting than, say, a bullette because the snake has a SoD ability and a bullette does not?I don't think I believe this.&nbsp; I think that it's far more likely that there are many encounters in any adventure you run where the players have no reasonable reason to know that those creatures might be found there.That or you run a very strange game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5278145, member: 22779"] Players get to know what monsters appear on the random encounter table in your adventures? I know mine certainly don't. And, even if I know that I can possibly meet, say, a basilisk in a given area, how exactly do I prepare for that? Random encounters are, by their nature, rather random. It's perfectly reasonable that a random encounter might occur while I'm camping. How does the person on watch prepare for a basilisk encounter that might occur and still be prepared for other encounters which may occur? You're going to tell me that players in your game can reasonably be able to discover every single creature that they can encounter in a given area? That, if your players do a reasonable amount of homework, there will be absolutely no unknown creatures in the adventure ahead of them? Or, are you claiming that snakes in AD&D have a greater impact on the setting than, say, a bullette because the snake has a SoD ability and a bullette does not? I don't think I believe this. I think that it's far more likely that there are many encounters in any adventure you run where the players have no reasonable reason to know that those creatures might be found there. That or you run a very strange game. [/QUOTE]

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