@Ziggurat@mozz I also have very little combat in my games, but I use random encounters all the time because they make the setting dynamic.
I don’t equate random encounter with random combat, an encounter can be something to interact with, talk to, run from, or plenty of other things.
I also don’t equate “random” with “unrelated to the rest of the adventure”, part of the fun of random encounters is figuring out why and how an ogre ended up on top of the ruined tower, and building on that.
@Ziggurat @mozz I also have very little combat in my games, but I use random encounters all the time because they make the setting dynamic.
I don’t equate random encounter with random combat, an encounter can be something to interact with, talk to, run from, or plenty of other things.
I also don’t equate “random” with “unrelated to the rest of the adventure”, part of the fun of random encounters is figuring out why and how an ogre ended up on top of the ruined tower, and building on that.