In the first article in this series, I set out to prove Vaarsuvius wrong and to salvage Random Encounters in overland travel. In the second article in this series, I proposed some additional requirements for having a Long Rest that would allow Random Encounters to have real stakes. Now, I’m going to tackle the Random Encounters themselves. Foreshadowed Encounters Let’s start with the Into the Living Library Wandering Monster table, as seen in the On Wandering Monsters series—the one tha...| Sir Poley
I’ve always hated traps. There, I said it. Aside from the occasional booby traps placed by the kobolds and the Ettercap in Into the Living Library, in my entire GMing career, I’ve only ever used a single trap—also in Into the Living Library—and it was really more of a plot device than anything else. It was a clearly marked death trap to encourage the party to turn around and do some exploring and roleplaying to find a bypass. The trap was a lock; Leonard’s Lightning Redirector was t...| Sir Poley