Again, IF DONE RIGHT, Random Encounters can be VERY good and fun. I agree, BG1 and 2 and Icewind Dale and Pathfinder, they all had baby, horrible, random encounters. There was nothing challenging or fun about them. They were just annoying. I'd still spam Long Rests, but I'd have to fight off random encounters three or four times, slaughtering tons of goblins or whatever, just to get a single Long Rest. It was annoying.
Challenging and fun are both words what takes alot, I mean alot of time. I cant understand why they cant use their community. If theres for example 100 kids, who make 1 challenging and exciting battle for them, that sounds good to me. If one of them last 15-30 min, thats lots of content for free.
Neverwinter Online has been big success, theres lots of community content. Sometimes I feel like they didnt check the standards though. Theres tons of crap too.
