Welcome back to DM Nastics, the gym for Dungeon Masters to work out their minds.

I'm one of your host, DM Neal, aka Jote Moniac.

And it's me, your other host, D.M. Celeste, aka Sea Witch. Dun, dun, dun. And it's been a long time. It has. Dear listener, you don't know that, but for us, it's been a long time just based on our personal recording schedules. But we're going to jump back in today with another article. And again, I think it speaks to the base concept because this is definitely not what I thought I was going to get when I read it because I'm so used to all of the other articles that we've read.

But which article are we looking at today?

Yeah, so we're looking at Dungeons and Dragons, 10 random encounters for On the Road.

And this is published and The Gamer and it by Rosa Baumgartle.

Cool.

I don't think we've seen anything from Rosa yet.

No, but I mean, talk about an NPC name.

Yeah.

Bomb Gartle.

Done.

Bomb Gartle.

I'm just guessing.

I went with my instincts on how to say that.

So I'm sorry, Rosa, if I totally butcher that. But yeah, this is, it's an interesting one because I feel like, I don't want to get too into the weeds because that almost feels like more of like, you know, main topic thing, but the idea of like how many encounters do you really have when you're on the road, even the ones you do have,

how big do you make them? Because on one hand, everyone kind of knows that are, is it meaningful?

Is it not meaningful? Are you trying to make it meaningful? Do you, so they're tough. Let's just

throw it out there. Let's just say, yeah, 5E doesn't make it easy to have exploration-based encounters,

which on the road would typically kind of fall into that category.

So it's hard, yeah.

So I'm, I'm eager to hear what roses come up with.

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