We have reports in that there are wild and dangerous beasts across the realm. Travel is no longer safe. Well, actually that depends on where you travel.
Yes, the random encounter system is in full action. Here's how it works:
The setzone zonename command designates the name of the zone for a location. Now the zone material not only controls your roaming creatures, but can bring in random encounters to challenge the player who walks about your area.
It gets the random creature from The Beastiary. Actually, it's called the Beastiary Book in order to make going to it easier (so you won't goto the material called beastiary instead).
You can put objects in the beastiary that match the name of your location's zone. Then put creatures in those objects. There are some steps involved to set them up well, so read all about it in the following:
readall the beastiary book
read the command called setzone
Optionally (for the curious):
read the material called encounter
read the material called zone