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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BriarMonkey" data-source="post: 5607990" data-attributes="member: 95387">It's a neat idea, but as you ask there are a lot of questions that could come up.  I think the relevance of the questions would have more to do with your group than anything else.  If they are inquisitive and like plumbing the depths of the world behind the dungeons, then yeah, these could be problematic.  Otherwise, if the party is more a kill-n-loot style, they won't care if the goblin knows who he is.To that end, assuming that the party does have some care about how the world works, and that you as a GM don't want to introduce something that could wreck havoc, I'd think this idea would be best served by its use within a single environment.  That environment could be a dungeon, or it could be a specific woods, or catacombs - or even a geological feature such as a specific valley.The types of creatures that are spontaneous I think would depend on the environment.  For something like a volcano, maybe mephits or elementals; a dungeon may spawn goblins; while catacombs just yell out for undead.Too, the spawn rate may be different for different areas.  I'd set a range of random timings, in trying to keep up with a specific feel.  For instance, for a catacomb that spawns undead, if it is well known as a death trap, I'd spawn low-level mobs maybe once a day, but greater undead, like shadows or wraiths, maybe once a week.But there too are a continuum of questions.  For the intelligent creatures so spawned, I'd give them some base knowledge of the environment into which they are created.  As for their gear, I waffle and don't have a good answer for that.  As for unintelligent, they probably don't have gear - so that's not a concern.  And as for their knowledge, they'd just mope around on instinct.Ya know, as I think about it, there's no reason you couldn't have this for several areas, each with their own ecosystem. Hidden gates or portals, excessively thin layers between planes, magical plagues, cataclysms, or other historic failings could easily be used to describe or explain them.Um, I think that covers my ramblings.  If I missed something, note it and I'll try to re-engage ye olde noggin.</blockquote>

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