Poll on % In Lair Usage

[delta]

So I asked over here an open-ended/qualitative question on how different people use the % In Lair statistics from Vol-2. I think that gave a fair overview of the different ways people use it (some I wouldn't have thought of myself). Here's a poll to get some quantitative numbers.

Considering only Wilderness Adventures: How do you use the % In Lair statistic?

[tetramorph]

Consistent with the qualitative thread, I picked the first.

I am really impressed with some of the interesting and detailed options outlined over there. Especially the exegesis on Arneson. I have tried to imagine myself in a possible world where I use that level of fiddliness and enjoy it. But I’ve pulled myself out of it.

So I’m going to continue to use % in lair as a tool for discerning whether characters have or shortly will discover a lair or simply have a random encounter without a lair present.

So long as the lair remains uncleared, I will continue to track it. Once cleared, I will have it in my campaign notes, but I will not keep it in the limited RAM of my sadly continually shrinking brain. I have too much in the real world for which I need to reserve CPU and bandwidth.

But I can imagine a campaign with that level of detail tracked and I would love and be challenged by it as a player.

[linebeck]

Jul 27, 2020 12:55:25 GMT -6 tetramorph said:

I am really impressed with some of the interesting and detailed options outlined over there. Especially the exegesis on Arneson. I have tried to imagine myself in a possible world where I use that level of fiddliness and enjoy it. But I’ve pulled myself out of it.

So I’m going to continue to use % in lair as a tool for discerning whether characters have or shortly will discover a lair or simply have a random encounter without a lair present.

That is my take as well.  

[delta]

Jul 27, 2020 12:55:25 GMT -6 tetramorph said:

I have too much in the real world for which I need to reserve CPU and bandwidth. But I can imagine a campaign with that level of detail tracked and I would love and be challenged by it as a player.

Likewise, there are times when I fantasize about a computer program that tracks a whole campaign world of Arneson FFC-style monster lairs butting up against each other, migrating, etc. But I really don't want to tie myself to a computer at the game table.

.... he said, in 2020, when all the gaming is online.

[Deleted]

I had to go with option 1 for reasons I expounded on in the other thread. Even though it's not really explained in 3lbb itself, it's the most logical (to my mind) of the choices. I still believe every monster has a home somewhere, though. You just may never have the opportunity to find it if you run into the thing out a-hunting.

[hamurai]

Option 1, as in "The encountered monster has its lair there." Still, common sense overrides this. If a lair doesn't make sense at all at some place, I use it as a "camp" for intelligent creatures, for example a scout squad or a raiding party.