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...