Even Better Encounter Tables

A good random encounter will build the world for you and make it feel alive. Random encounters are not random in the sense of “this could be anything,” or random in the sense of “this doesn’t matter, it’s just noise,” but they are random in the sense of no one knows where and when they will occur. They aren’t pre-planned and they can add to and intensify already-existing situations. One of the very first things I made, even before I started this blog, was a system for making a random encounter table that I called “Better Encounters.”1 My friend and fellow DM, Dan, has been using my Better Encounters encounter table for a while, but being so clever he has tweaked it into something I call Even Better Encounters, combining elements of the underclock, with its feeling of a countdown to doom, and the overloaded encounter die, which gives you some results even when you don’t get an encounter. And really his take is so good I think you need to see it. As a quick recap: my Better Encounters…

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