Is there a recommended starting distance for random encounters in the Pathfinder core rules?
I was using the old school 3d8 ft for indoor encounters and 3d8 yards for outdoor encounters, but recently have been doing 2d10+10ft and am still not happy.
I've been thinking about doing 1d8+1 squares since we do all encounters on a battle mat.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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Well really it would depend on the type of encounter and what they are encountering. You could organize each outdoor encounter into 3 types of encounters: Close, Medium, and Far. Close could be 1d4+1 squares (2-5), Medium could be 2d4+2 squares (4-10), and Far could be 3d4+3 squares (6-15). This makes it so that there is a difference when the party happens upon a caravan being ransacked by bandits (Far) and a thief trying to pick pocket the party (Close).
Now indoors you could do something similar but organize it by building size instead of distance and then have them be so many room apart.
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What I used to do was take the best perception roll from the combined group (party AND opponents) and figure out the range at wich that roll would just succeed in noticing the other group (if terrain did not limit sight lines to less).