Encounter-a-Day

I’m pleased to announce the first version of my 4th Edition Random Encounter Generator.

Currently, it creates a level-appropriate encounter at random. Although the monsters are selected entirely at random (for example, it might team up a a Githyanki and a Githzerai if both are in the level range), it does try to choose an appropriate amount of them based on status and role. For example, you’ll only ever have a single copy of a leader or solo monster (unless, by sheer coincidence, it happens to pick the same monster twice as it passes through). On the other hand, it tries to fit in between 4 and 12 minions, 2-4 soldiers, 1-3 brutes, etc.

Eventually, I’d like to get it so that it can create encounters based on the encounter templates in the DMG, so that there’s a more logical structure to the encounters. I’d also like to make it more likely to select similar types of monsters (for example, pairing together different kobolds).