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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8495428" data-attributes="member: 6987520">While having fun and enjoying the adventure is the first priority, as a DM I let the random encounter rolls fall where they may for the most part, only re-rolling if the encounter literally makes no sense.One particular first random encounter for a multi-year AD&D 1E/2E game was an "very old" green dragon (I forget the actual age). The party, all 1st level, fled like most of the city, acting just to try to save people who otherwise would have been collateral damage. What was meant to be a random encounter became the entire first session, very much like Smaug attacking Laketown. However, the party had no part defeating the dragon--it was the clear victor--they were just about saving as many people as they could, along with themselves LOL.Nearly 4 years later IRL, two of the surviving party members led the rest of their current group on an adventure to ultimately defeat the dragon!So, what was an unplanned random encounter eventually turned into climax of one of the final adventures for this group of heroes.I would add that the text on giving PCs clues for upcoming encounters using other senses, etc. is a great piece of advice for most DMs. This is often overlooked and I tell DMs when can it is one of the best tools IME for creating a more immersive game world. Plus since I do allow random encounters well beyond the power-level of the PCs, it helps them survive in such cases--unless they are foolhardy, in which case I'll TPK them without a second thought. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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