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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5876960" data-attributes="member: 82106">1e DMG AFAIK never states any fixed frequency for wandering monsters in dungeons. The 'Adventures in the Wilderness' section DOES talk about overland encounter frequency, but nowhere is it ever stated what die to use, frequency of checks, or which numbers would produce an encounter in a dungeon.I don't know if that was intentional and the idea was that you'd decide that for yourself, or what, but even the sample dungeon doesn't state this information. It has an encounter table, and the appendices have extensive level-based tables for general use, but that's about it.I seem to recall SOP was there was a check every turn and if the DM tossed a 6 on a d6 there was a random encounter. I don't know if this is somewhere in the DMG which I've forgotten or if it was carried over from earlier rules where it was stated, or if it was just part of the unwritten 'lore' of 1e.</blockquote>