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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7547783" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>This is for <em>Tomb of Annihilation</em>, and in that adventure the normal travel pace rules are altered a bit. Normal pace = 10 miles per day, corresponding with 10 miles hexes. In the adventure traveling at a Fast Pace allows you to cover 10 miles, and then you have a 50% chance of covering an additional 10 miles. </p><p></p><p>There is a ranger PC in the party with forest/jungle favored terrain. I've interpreted that as allowing the PCs to automatically cover 20 miles (i.e. no need for % roll) when traversing familiar areas of the jungle at Fast Pace.</p><p></p><p>That's already established stuff for our game, and changing it now would probably be unsatisfactory.</p><p></p><p>I'll think on the whole stimulant suggestion though. We have a grung PC who is all about "medicinal" plants.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That would be a great approach if the emphasis here were on exploration. But this is a dramatic "beat the monsters to a destination" moment (well, more like "match the monsters pace"). Sorry, should have made that clear in my OP. We've also done lots of random encounters recently – and I find that to avoid "random encounter fatigue" it's best to change it up with narrative/montage travel or skill challenges now and then. Finally, this is a bit of a backtrack for the PCs; while they haven't traversed this section of river/jungle specifically, they're looping back to a previous settlement to fulfill a quest.</p><p></p><p>In spoilers, I've included a rough map with the PCs' approximate route in cyan and the monsters' route in red. The PCs will very likely be returning to the circled settlement.</p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/1Di8scE.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/SBLOCK]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7547783, member: 20323"] This is for [I]Tomb of Annihilation[/I], and in that adventure the normal travel pace rules are altered a bit. Normal pace = 10 miles per day, corresponding with 10 miles hexes. In the adventure traveling at a Fast Pace allows you to cover 10 miles, and then you have a 50% chance of covering an additional 10 miles. There is a ranger PC in the party with forest/jungle favored terrain. I've interpreted that as allowing the PCs to automatically cover 20 miles (i.e. no need for % roll) when traversing familiar areas of the jungle at Fast Pace. That's already established stuff for our game, and changing it now would probably be unsatisfactory. I'll think on the whole stimulant suggestion though. We have a grung PC who is all about "medicinal" plants. That would be a great approach if the emphasis here were on exploration. But this is a dramatic "beat the monsters to a destination" moment (well, more like "match the monsters pace"). Sorry, should have made that clear in my OP. We've also done lots of random encounters recently – and I find that to avoid "random encounter fatigue" it's best to change it up with narrative/montage travel or skill challenges now and then. Finally, this is a bit of a backtrack for the PCs; while they haven't traversed this section of river/jungle specifically, they're looping back to a previous settlement to fulfill a quest. In spoilers, I've included a rough map with the PCs' approximate route in cyan and the monsters' route in red. The PCs will very likely be returning to the circled settlement. [SBLOCK][img]https://i.imgur.com/1Di8scE.png[/img][/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]
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