Impractical Applications (Not Exactly Random….)

Posted by Ravyn on July 7, 2012

My group has spent the last several months’ worth of sessions fighting its way through, or narrowly avoiding, or dissuading, Powerful Things—a fact which on the surface probably makes me seem pretty hypocritical given Friday morning’s random encounter rant. Some of this is due to the fact that we’re just slow—we’ve had a few skipped [...]

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How Not to Make People Hate Random Encounters

Posted by Ravyn on July 5, 2012

I understand why random encounters exist. They do demonstrate that the world is a living, breathing place, that there are Things Out There that aren’t just Whatever Is Determined By the Local Dungeon; they do very much discourage the fifteen-minute adventuring day; a clever GM can use them to drop a new lead to another [...]

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