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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8330637" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Actually, a question for all of the people in this thread: do you use random encounters?I ask because I sort of don't. I generally only do planned encounters, where I've already given it some thought as to what the creatures involved are like and what they want. And my lists of random encounters aren't &quot;2d6 orcs&quot;, it's &quot;5 orcs who are out hunting wildlife for food and will grow hostile if the PCs do anything that scares the game away or tries to interfere with their hunt.&quot;This isn't a knock on people who use random encounters: due to my ADHD, I really benefit having these things planned out, even if they don't actually get used (because I can always use them later) (also, I often forget to roll for random encounters). But I am curious because, in reading the responses of people who find alignment useful, how much of it is because they're more about improv-ing what the PCs see. This came to me when [USER=6701124]@Cadence[/USER] said (re: elusive pranksters) &quot;Do the pranksters do non harmful pranks or harmful ones?&quot; because to me, that's something that I would have already figured out before I put the pranksters in the game.So it's entirely possible that one of the disconnects here is due to random vs. planned encounters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8330637, member: 6915329"] Actually, a question for all of the people in this thread: do you use random encounters? I ask because I sort of don't. I generally only do planned encounters, where I've already given it some thought as to what the creatures involved are like and what they want. And my lists of random encounters aren't "2d6 orcs", it's "5 orcs who are out hunting wildlife for food and will grow hostile if the PCs do anything that scares the game away or tries to interfere with their hunt." This isn't a knock on people who use random encounters: due to my ADHD, I really benefit having these things planned out, even if they don't actually get used (because I can always use them later) (also, I often forget to roll for random encounters). But I am curious because, in reading the responses of people who find alignment useful, how much of it is because they're more about improv-ing what the PCs see. This came to me when [USER=6701124]@Cadence[/USER] said (re: elusive pranksters) "Do the pranksters do non harmful pranks or harmful ones?" because to me, that's something that I would have already figured out before I put the pranksters in the game. So it's entirely possible that [I]one [/I]of the disconnects here is due to random vs. planned encounters. [/QUOTE]

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