Negative Space: wandering monsters
- Constructing encounter tables using Nisus
- Here’s a Nisus Writer macro that makes it a little easier to create encounter tables.
- I brake for wandering monsters
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How do you create a random encounter table? With love and baling wire.
- Percentage-based random tables
- Our current random item generator assumes that each item shows up as often as any other item. That’s very OD&D-ish. But AD&D uses percentage dice to weight toward some monsters and items more than others.
- Wandering monster chart assistant
- Use the encounter chart assistant to create wandering monster charts using percentages rather than ranges. Copy your tables into this tool to make sure they add up, adjust them, then copy them back out to your word processor. Never worry about missing or overlapping ranges again!
