From:	NightLife NightLif@***.net
Subject:	Random Encounters
Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:17:59 -0400

>I think I know just what NL is looking for :] Unfortunately, I don;t know
>where one could be found (And Sprawl Sites was a great book, but at this
>point it's mostly either severly dated material, or you've used all the
>good ones).
>
>I don't look at it quite as a random encounter chart, and I'm not sure NL
>is either... At least not in the old D&D "12: 1d6 Orcs, 1 Orc
Chieftain"
>type sense.
>
>What NL is looking for (And what would be a GREAT resource, IMO) is
>something along the lines of a series of good adventure Hooks, or even
>pre-made mini-encounters...
>
>Some nights, you just can;t think of yet another interesting little
>encounter for Mr.
>I-Have-to-Pick-A-Bar-Fight-Cause-I'm-A-Sammy-With-An-Attitude, because it's
>the same damn thing he does everytime the group has a few minutes of
>downtime, and he gets bored...


Thank you Mister Bull. You nailed the problem right on the head.
You-are-a-gentleman-and-a-scholar-the-clone-of-the-best-decker-you-never-met.

> Or because you've been working 60+ hours
>the last couple weeks, and the last thine you've had time for is thinking
>of cool ideas for encounters... Or you've been plugging away for the last
>three days polishing up trhis neat-o keen adventure story you want to run,
>but on the way to the meet, the PC's decide to go another route and get
>into some trouble, and you've not thought of anything... OR, you're a GM
>that, while you're great with prepared material, is a little lacking on the
>"on-the-fly" style of GMing (I knew a great GM at college who was like
>this... If he had time to think everything out ahead of time, it was one
>of the best games I've ever played. But if he got stuck thinking on his
>feet, he faltered, because he was one of those guys who needs to plot).

He now I'm pretty good with the off the cuff style of gaming. ;) But random
slaughter is just that. BTW nice to see you're still around. Now if DA was
here something really cool could happen. ;)


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