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<blockquote data-quote="Tortoise" data-source="post: 5823549" data-attributes="member: 146">I disagree. Do you travel to and from work? Do you go to the grocery store or the dentist/doctor? Do you visit friends to game? Have you ever left your town, county, or state to handle some important task or attend a convention? Ever need to go find a bathroom? These are all examples of wandering which is exactly what random encounters represent.That dragon sometimes goes out to eat a herd of cattle or three or to burninate the country-side. The wolves you mentioned don't sit in the den waiting for deer to walk up with an &quot;eat me&quot; sign dangling from their necks, they wander about hunting for prey. Do the hobgoblins refuse to patrol their hard won territory? Have the Elves or Dwarves ever wanted to conduct trade with another society? And yes, like you said, adventuring does have the characters wandering into the territories of all sorts of things.Oh, and Shidaku, this is not a &quot;bash 4e&quot; thread so please don't let it turn into an edition war. We're discussing randomness and in some cases to make a point using examples from various editions. Nobody here is bashing 4th.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tortoise, post: 5823549, member: 146"] I disagree. Do you travel to and from work? Do you go to the grocery store or the dentist/doctor? Do you visit friends to game? Have you ever left your town, county, or state to handle some important task or attend a convention? Ever need to go find a bathroom? These are all examples of wandering which is exactly what random encounters represent. That dragon sometimes goes out to eat a herd of cattle or three or to burninate the country-side. The wolves you mentioned don't sit in the den waiting for deer to walk up with an "eat me" sign dangling from their necks, they wander about hunting for prey. Do the hobgoblins refuse to patrol their hard won territory? Have the Elves or Dwarves ever wanted to conduct trade with another society? And yes, like you said, adventuring does have the characters wandering into the territories of all sorts of things. Oh, and Shidaku, this is not a "bash 4e" thread so please don't let it turn into an edition war. We're discussing randomness and in some cases to make a point using examples from various editions. Nobody here is bashing 4th. [/QUOTE]

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