D&D 5E The new exploration rules, discussion

[I'm A Banana]

I agree, but while TOR journey mechanics is baked into the system in all the levels, the current exploration mechanic feels like it need some more work. For example I would love to have some sort of fatigue test for wilderness exploration.

An encounter only happens, when someone botches the roll. In this system the monsters keep coming by themselves. That makes the integration of the travel rules very simple: You leave "travel mode" as soon as a botch happens (or when you arrive at your chosen destination). The system here isn't so clean.

Also in TOR there is another job: Hunting.

Yeah, they're not the same, but I thought the intent of "turn exploration into an action economy" was well represented. I don't imagine NEXT rules can be as integrated as TOR's rules are, what with modularity, but I would like to see something about the bad things that happen when you don't explore too good, and making an encounter a punishment doesn't work within NEXT's current XP rules, but maybe those are due for a re-examination anyway.

 

[jhunton]

they sort of take the rolplay out of the eqetion.and turn it in to a bord game .althoue I like do like the idaer the rules are a bit over done

 

[Klaus]

I wonder if backgrounds could factor into this. For instance, a Guide (thanks to the Wanderer trait) could be given advantage on navigation checks (or give that up to do navigation + one task simultaneously).