Anybody follow Curse of Strahd's recommendation to roll for random encounters every 30 minutes? It also suggests you limit it to no more than 2 encounters every 12 hours, but it still seems like you'd do a lot of rolling. Anybody make this work?
Ach! I didn't account for travel distance! I just finished DMing LMoP for another group, and some of those distances are much larger. Barovia is tiny in comparison!
By the way, I ran a few simulations to calculate how often random encounters should occur under CoS guidelines. If you travel for 24 hours, you've got a 65% chance of having 4 encounters, 25% for 3, 9% for 2, less than 1% for 0 or 1. Mostly likely to have your encounters in the first 6 hours and hours 15-19 or so.
Anybody follow Curse of Strahd's recommendation to roll for random encounters every 30 minutes? It also suggests you limit it to no more than 2 encounters every 12 hours, but it still seems like you'd do a lot of rolling. Anybody make this work?
Ach! I didn't account for travel distance! I just finished DMing LMoP for another group, and some of those distances are much larger. Barovia is tiny in comparison!
Thanks Cloudseeker42!
By the way, I ran a few simulations to calculate how often random encounters should occur under CoS guidelines. If you travel for 24 hours, you've got a 65% chance of having 4 encounters, 25% for 3, 9% for 2, less than 1% for 0 or 1. Mostly likely to have your encounters in the first 6 hours and hours 15-19 or so.