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<blockquote data-quote="Essenti" data-source="post: 5823619" data-attributes="member: 100205">Let's not pull out the troll card just yet. I feel fairly confident he was not merely trolling, he was making valid points even if they weren't specifically congruent with the perspective of &quot;reader as wandering monster&quot; as you meant it in your previous post. It's often best to assume that someone has simply misunderstood rather than writing them off as blatantly antagonistic. We're on the internetz, and nobody knows what anyone else is really talking about <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> we just keep posting as if we do.&nbsp;I feel it worth mentioning that if a table is involved, then it's only psuedo-random at best. At any rate, I do make some use of random encounter tables when I feel it is appropriate. I might introduce a bizarre encounter because of the challenge it offers me as a DM and to the players. Creating a reason for the encounter on the fly can be a ton of fun all by itself, but the potential new possibilities it can open up are usually worth it (unless I really muck it up). Generally though, I try to keep the encounters consistent with the current environment because over-use of out-of-place encounters can easily weaken the story and leaves a bad gamey aftertaste. If you rely too heavily on encounter tables you are creating a whole other level of predictability.&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Essenti, post: 5823619, member: 100205"] Let's not pull out the troll card just yet. I feel fairly confident he was not merely trolling, he was making valid points even if they weren't specifically congruent with the perspective of "reader as wandering monster" as you meant it in your previous post. It's often best to assume that someone has simply misunderstood rather than writing them off as blatantly antagonistic. We're on the internetz, and nobody knows what anyone else is really talking about :p we just keep posting as if we do. I feel it worth mentioning that if a table is involved, then it's only psuedo-random at best. At any rate, I do make some use of random encounter tables when I feel it is appropriate. I might introduce a bizarre encounter because of the challenge it offers me as a DM and to the players. Creating a reason for the encounter on the fly can be a ton of fun all by itself, but the potential new possibilities it can open up are usually worth it (unless I really muck it up). Generally though, I try to keep the encounters consistent with the current environment because over-use of out-of-place encounters can easily weaken the story and leaves a bad gamey aftertaste. If you rely too heavily on encounter tables you are creating a whole other level of predictability. :) [/QUOTE]

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