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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6569862" data-attributes="member: 6775031">I started playing with AD&D, and learned from someone who ran AD&D almost exclusively, but I didn't actually start DMing until 3E.In any case, I am given to understand that all tables are there as a resource if you need them. Just as you can detail and place encounters and treasure parcels manually, or roll randomly for each one, a table which governing the availability of shelter in the wilderness would only be called for if the DM was uncertain if such a thing would be available (or whether the PCs would be able to find it).Even if the DM doesn't have the details specified, you still need to know in a general sense whether the table is even applicable. You need to know whether trolls exist in this region, for example, before you let one show up in a random encounter. You need to know that there are or are-not some number of caves out there, before the PCs randomly stumble into one.</blockquote>