Gameplay Design Patterns wiki, “Ephemeral Goals”

Cite as: Gameplay Design Patterns wiki, “Ephemeral Goals”
Original: https://www.gameplaydesignpatterns.org/index.php?title=Ephemeral_Goals
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Version: revision 26300
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20261021183850/https://gdp.cse.chalmers.se//index.php?title=Ephemeral_Goals
Accessed: 2026-10-20
Licence: none stated
Credit: The Gameplay Design Patterns collection, maintained by Staffan Björk and Jussi Holopainen.
Notes: The address redirects to gdp.cse.chalmers.se. The wiki has no page of its own for random encounters; this one discusses them as an example.

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The Gameplay Design Patterns wiki describes random encounters as encounters "created randomly usually from a predefined set of characteristics", archetypically a fight with wandering monsters, and names early editions of Dungeons & Dragons as an example.	`ExamplesExamples`	Wiki