Originally Posted by rune_74 
BS. knights of the chalice had trash mobs, these were random encounters.
Nope. Those random encounters were all optional. You always had the option of avoiding the fight (by choosing the 'run away' option). Kind of defeats their purpose as trash mobs to fight through, when you don't have to fight through them, eh?
Besides, I remember (hazy as the memory is, it's been more than a year since I last played KotC) many random encounters which were far from being "trashy" (i.e. easy and without a threat). Although I usually just skipped the random encounters whenever they occurred.