While running my home game with Pathfinder I ran into the wall when looking up distance for starting an encounter in the mountains. As I was trying to rush through and find the information a became frustrated because I knew it was there but couldn't find it. Would it be possible to have a table that shows the guidelines for maximum distance and perception DCs? This would make it easier when running and needing to look things up on the fly.
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Last year I gave up trying to use these stupid initial distance rules. This slows the game for no reason, but I will admit that it balances the game a little, as it gives archers (bowmen/crossbowmen) a chance to shine and use a few rounds worth of shooting before melee erupts. For some random encounters, this can really soften the bad guys and allow a low-level party to defeat a high ECL monster very easily; if the MM entry shows that the monster has both a melee and projectile weapon (for instance, gnolls, who come with battleaxes and shortbows), then you can have a bunch of very low level monsters create a lot of trouble (have 'em entrenched, up a ridge, each with +4 AC due to cover, and with the PCs going uphill or making climb checks to get there... muhahahaha!)
