Encounters

Encounter design

Articles

• [Sly Flourish] The Lazy Encounter Benchmark

• [Sly Flourish] The Dials of Monster Difficulty

• [The Alexandrian] Adjusting Encounters by Party Size

• [TheAngryGM] How to Build F$&%ing Awesome Encounters!

Videos

• • [Matt Colville YouTube] Random Encounters

  • [Matt Colville YouTube] Action Oriented Monsters

    • • Sly Flourish Article response

  • [Matt Mercer YouTube] Building RPG Encounters!

RUNNING ENCOUNTERS

• The Monsters Know What They're Doing

• Badooga's Monster Guidelines

• You Hit. You Miss: how to deliver better dynamic descriptions during combat

• Describing Damage Types

• Swarm Calculator: handles many attacks and saving throws all at once (for, say, 10 goblins)

Tools for Tracking Initiative Order

• Improved Initiative

• DnDBattleTracker.com

• dm.tools/tracker

• Kastark Encounter Tracker

• Donjon 5e Initiative Tracker

Encounter Builders & Generators

• • Kobold Fight Club Encounter Builder

  • Donjon Random Generator

  • [Goblinist] Encounter Builder

  • Badooga's Encounter Builder

Homebrewed Creature Calculators

• • CR Calculator Online

  • JLUnit's CR Calculator

Encounter examples

• • City/Town Encounters 1

  • City/Town Encounters 2

  • City/Town Odd Encounters

  • Some random road encounters

  • More Random Road Encounters

  • Travel Sights

  • Naval combat rules

  • Role-Playing an Evil Dragon

  • Free one-shot adventures

  • Dark, Cloaked Figure

  • Atlas of Planes (incomplete)

  • Airship Encounters

  • Finding An Odd Dagger

  • Undead Encounter

  • Mountain Encounters

  • Monster Manual Encounters

  • The Hammered Gobbo

  • 100 Forest Encounters

  • The Forgetful Wizard And The Doomsday Clock

  • One Page Adventures For Various Environments

  • Escape From Mechanus

  • Trolls & Stirges

  • Desert Encounter Seeds

  • The Infinite Library

  • 100 Swamp Encounters