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<blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 4043024" data-attributes="member: 762">That's an extraordinary broad definition of tailored. By it all encounters are technically tailored because the PC's may at some point encounter them or the DM may have them in proximity with the party. In my example, the Dragon is attacking the town. The PCs just happen to be there to respond and are not the reason for the attack (sure they &quot;are&quot; in a metagame sense but in that sense everything is there for the players).But let's back up for a moment and forget about attacking the town. Lets just say that at 1st level the PCs overhear that there is a dragon strongly rumored to be 100 miles to the west, orcs are raiding settlements to the east, and a few other &quot;adventure leads.&quot; Because they are curious they choose to investigate the dragon rumor. They learn that in the last 3 years at least 2 sets of extremely experienced adventurers (read high level) have gone to investigate the dragon and have not come or reported back. This is clearly a static encounter the&nbsp; dragon has been there for years and will likely remain so regardless of the PCs. The party can investigate or not but if they choose to do so at this stage in their career they are likely in deep dog doo. Still, leaving the potential out there is not wasted space it's a fun encounter for later - even though it likely matters little now.This whole discussion is somewhat academic though. As has been said, the &quot;best&quot; encounters are those that have elements of both static and tailored because those have the most verisimilitude as well as generally being the most fun for the party (always a good combination).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mort, post: 4043024, member: 762"] That's an extraordinary broad definition of tailored. By it all encounters are technically tailored because the PC's may at some point encounter them or the DM may have them in proximity with the party. In my example, the Dragon is attacking the town. The PCs just happen to be there to respond and are not the reason for the attack (sure they "are" in a metagame sense but in that sense everything is there for the players). But let's back up for a moment and forget about attacking the town. Lets just say that at 1st level the PCs overhear that there is a dragon strongly rumored to be 100 miles to the west, orcs are raiding settlements to the east, and a few other "adventure leads." Because they are curious they choose to investigate the dragon rumor. They learn that in the last 3 years at least 2 sets of extremely experienced adventurers (read high level) have gone to investigate the dragon and have not come or reported back. This is clearly a static encounter the dragon has been there for years and will likely remain so regardless of the PCs. The party can investigate or not but if they choose to do so at this stage in their career they are likely in deep dog doo. Still, leaving the potential out there is not wasted space it's a fun encounter for later - even though it likely matters little now. This whole discussion is somewhat academic though. As has been said, the "best" encounters are those that have elements of both static and tailored because those have the most verisimilitude as well as generally being the most fun for the party (always a good combination). [/QUOTE]

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