Quick Question About The Confirmation, Or Any Other Scenerio With Random Charts

[Nohwear]

Basically, do you have to roll at the table? The main reason I ask is because of templates. It just seems to be a bit of a hassle to prepare multiple monsters with templates when you will only be using one.

[burkoJames]

Except when running the confirmation at the last minute, I have never rolled the random monster encounters at the table.

Other things, such as the random effects of a storm, I have rolled at table.

[Nebten]

You can either roll before you run the game and then prep the monsters that you rolled.

Or you can just cherry pick what monsters you want to prepare and use them in the battles.

As long as you are having fun, that is key.

[The Fox]

Roll beforehand. If you know you are running for beginners, just choose the encounters based on the advice that is given in the scenario sidebars.

Also, if there is an encounter you really want to run, use that one. The game is better when GMs are excited about it. (Just don't change any of the encounters.)

If you know that you are running the scenario for someone who has played before, ask them (privately) which encounters they remember. Run different ones for them.

These are kind of the whole point of having the random encounter tables.

[Nohwear]

Thank you everyone, that was most helpful.

[BigNorseWolf]

as long as you're not picking "THE MONSTERS THAT WILL KILL MY PARTY MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!" I don't think anyones going to care

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA..

[Starglim]

On one run I got the players to roll as we went, another time I pre-rolled and prepped only those results. Both seemed to work all right.

[Silbeg]

Another idea, which I use, Is just to have all the stat blocks. That is made, easy, though, by using the shared prep site

For The Confirmation, etc, I like to have the players roll for the ransoms.... They choose their own dooms!

[kinevon]

Jack Brown wrote:

Another idea, which I use, Is just to have all the stat blocks. That is made, easy, though, by using the shared prep site

For The Confirmation, etc, I like to have the players roll for the ransoms.... They choose their own dooms!

Gotta be careful with those spell checkers. Sometimes they find some weird word substitutions. Especially for words that they should have in their list.

Randoms changed to ransoms.

[LazarX]

Nohwear wrote:

Basically, do you have to roll at the table? The main reason I ask is because of templates. It just seems to be a bit of a hassle to prepare multiple monsters with templates when you will only be using one.

You're supposed to roll at the table. Take the time, and prep them all. they're all just generic monsters for the most part.

And you're not supposed to give away all the goodies on the Chronicle either, just the ones found by random rolls.

[Matthew Morris]

Jack Brown wrote:

Another idea, which I use, Is just to have all the stat blocks. That is made, easy, though, by using the shared prep site

For The Confirmation, etc, I like to have the players roll for the ransoms.... They choose their own dooms!

I do the same thing. Pass the d6 around let each player roll.

My first core table. Except for the first encounter they rolled the hardest monsters/pits every time. Made for a nail biter.

[roysier]

I roll ahead of time.

In that way I have the correct mini's. I'm not too concerned about the stat blocks since at the lower levels they are pretty easy to look at once and know what to do.