Random Dungeon Dressing: Books, Scrolls, and Tomes Random Dungeon Chamber Purpose: Treasure Vault Random Dungeon Chamber Purpose: Temple or Shrine Random Dungeon Chamber Purpose: Stronghold Random Dungeon Chamber Purpose: Planar Gate Random Dungeon Chamber Purpose: General Chambers Random Dungeon Chamber Purpose: Death Trap Monsters by Environment: Underwater Monsters Monsters by Environment: Underdark Monsters Monsters by Environment: Mountain Monsters Monsters by Environment: Grassland Monsters Monsters by Environment: Coastal Monsters Whether that is a failure of the rules or the DM, I will leave to the Esteemed Gaming Community.Adventuring Day Experience Points ( XP 🔍)Ĭustomizing Encounters: Effective Hit Points Based on Resistance and ImmunitiesĬustomizing Encounters: Experience Points by Challenge RatingĬustomizing Encounters: Monster Statistics by Challenge RatingĬustomizing Encounters: Non-Player Character ( NPC 🔍) Features One more thing: using large quantities of monsters with the official 3.5/3e XP/CR system will throw it out of the whack. (Of course, the cynic in me thinks that the lowered numbers are due to 3e's stat overload and long battles - hush, you fiend! )
One good Fireball can kill 20-30 orcs, but the rest of the 240 in the lair, brandishing their scimitars, keep coming! This is when making a stand, and sometimes failing, becomes a probability - and that's just heroic. A horde, on the other hand, presents the threat of attrition. In a party -vs- Big Bad fight, the heroes can focus their power on one opponent, who usually has no chance under a hail of spells, swordstrikes and sneak attacks. Merric is right: solitary monsters or monsters in small groups are a different sort of challenge than huge hordes of them. For dungeons, I usually keep them a bit lower, but still, 1d6*10 orcs are more interesting than 1 monster of the appropriate CR. For example, Giant Ants are organized into swarms of 1-100, whereas Ogres in bands of 2d10. Those tables - yeah, no problem like this, since, especially in the wilderness, monsters come in huge hordes. I use the old 1e DMG tables, which I typed into Excel and printed on my computer. The treasure balance is out, the number encountered is weird beyond belief. I can well see the argument for the 3E tables being too complex, but I think the 3.5E tables have gone too far the other way. Instead, you have a whole lot of solitary monsters roaming the dungeon, without being smart enough to realise that in numbers lies strength (and you're not going to be picked off by any adventuring party or tougher monster that wanders by). This is not the case with the 3.5E encounter tables. The 3E tables suffered from a similar problem, but at least you could encounter 1st level creatures on the 3rd level of the dungeon and have their numbers significantly increased. The reason I ask that is because under the 3.5E Dungeon Encounter tables, it's very rare to encounter more than 3 of one monster in a room. There actually was a more serious point to this thread, which goes like this: Are monsters dumb? (Although I do pay enough attention to alter results to fit the dungeon). I'll stock a few rooms myself, but after that I prefer to let the dice decide. Well, perhaps not all the time, but for my dungeons they do get used quite a bit. I use them all the time when designing adventures. My name's Merric, and I'm addicted to Random Encounter tables.
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