Should stone to flesh and random encounters be banned

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Blicero
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Dogbert wrote: It's totally valid having a "procedurally generated dungeon/environment," but then I hope we agree that, in that case, either you make everything random or you keep the random encounters limited to easy stuff.
Why are these our only two options? Why can't you have a chance encounter table where most of the results are of medium difficulty, but where the tougher encounters have fixed locations? Or you could even include the big bads on the table, to model how they might check on their underlings every so often. Do both of those options count as making everything random?
Also, if we're taking the Diablo route, the dungeon better has procedurally generated treasure
Why? Have I said anything about treasure?
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Omegonthesane wrote: I don't know what strange game you've played but the last few times I played D&D death by luck was not a risk we were expected to deal with.
What kind of D&D do you play, D&D with no dice rolls? I don't get it.
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infected slut princess wrote:
Omegonthesane wrote: I don't know what strange game you've played but the last few times I played D&D death by luck was not a risk we were expected to deal with.
What kind of D&D do you play, D&D with no dice rolls? I don't get it.
Last time I was playing, the odds were generally heavily stacked in our favour and our enemies were generally lacking in ways to send us from "full HP" to "unplayable for the whole session" in a single action. Being plinked to death by a long string of bad luck is a different thing - my wording was poor.
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