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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 791611" data-attributes="member: 7464">I don't like wandering monsters in closed areas, like an established "dungeon" location. I generally work out the population of the entire place out ahead of time, and make sure the economy/ecology works. There's no room for random monsters. I can even figure out what happens if the characters stop exploring after killing half the beasties and don't return for a few months.The wilderness is different. I like to imagine all kinds of critters running around at random, looking for juicy adventurers to eat. It doesn't have to make sense in a closed system like dungeon encounters.One of my big beefs about the core books was they didn't have COMPREHENSIVE WILDERNESS RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLES!!!!! They had only one "sample" encounter table - to show you how to try to do it yourself.Well, I tried doing it myself. I really honestly tried to make a comprehensive encounter table for all terrains, with separate columns for Common, Uncommon, and Rarely encounted creatures. Every monster in the monster manual was to be included.I got through a few terrain types. It took me weeks. Then I just gave up, because I realized the difficulty of what I was trying to do.SO does anybody know where I can find some really comprehensive wilderness encounter tables? Those of you who do random encounters, what charts do YOU use?</blockquote>