No no no. Please. Do not turn this thread into another Day/Night cycle thread or a RTWP thread. Please please please.

This thread is about Random Encounters only. Besides, I love Turn Based and would hate RTWP. Also, I love Day/Night and weather and have expressed that numerous times on the Day/Night thread. I have also expressed my distaste for RTWP on that thread as well.

The point is, Random Encounters create more excitement for multiple playthroughs so you aren't playing the same staged encounters over and over again. Staged encounters is fine for first playthroughs. It's also good for story encounters like the Githyanki Patrol and such. However, we need some living, breathing Random Encounters in this static world.

Yes, we need some other things to make it feel more alive, but Random Encounters would truly add a lot of additional flavor to the game and it would make the game feel more like BG1 and 2.