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Hmmm... something else I was contemplating was adjusting the lengths of short and long rests during true wilderness travel. Make a short rest occur only after 8 hours of rest/sleep, and a long rest require a full day of camp/rest/no travel. I'm SURE I didn't come up with this on my own - I...

I love discussions like this! So what I'm distilling from this, is that with game trails and the occasional "orc hiking trail" (they'd better have to fight some orcs!), then with a guide and a reasonable chance of spotting and avoiding the worst geographic mistakes (the owl familiar), a...

I do think I will offer them a chance to meet and hire a guide, yes. But the folk who have BEEN acting as their guides are reaching the edge of the terrain they know anything about, and are turning back. The new guide will be someone who spends his time in this area watching for dangers for the...

Yep, I just never know how much time to calculate devoting to those "other issues" even when I don't really want to dwell on them during the game. So 10 miles per day, so around 12 days, figuring they don't stop and rest for a day or two anywhere along the way. Hmmm.... I'd been letting them...

1. I use my own custom Deities, which were originally (25+ years ago) drawn from a fictional pantheon in a gaming product I used at the time. 2. Never have used real-world deities - came "close" when playing a quasi-egyptian campaign, but still used faux names. 3. I have one pantheon for all...

Various different incarnations of D&D have different overland travel rates, and distances covered under different circumstances. I'm wondering what people think of these varied rules/expectations, and which games might have the most realistic rates? Actually, what I want to determine, is how...

Thanks, that sounds perfect!

I think what I remembered was a cross between Gillmonkeys and Kech. I ended up using regular goblin stats, and just adding a climb/travel through trees speed of 30'. I described them as goblins with prehensile tails, and gave them "primitive" weapons. The PCs only ran into 4 of them (at 6th...

Ooops, double post. Sorry!

Just recently, while reading either the MM or 5th Edition foes, I saw a low-level (under 1 CR, I think) monkeylike creature that I mentally dubbed "monkey-goblins". Now, when I want to USE the creatures, I can't find them again. Anyone have a clue what I could be thinking of?

Nice! I liked the generic temple and very loose connections to the larger world. Easy to use!

I switched 25 or more years ago. Just read any GP amount as SP, SP as copper, and copper as a farthing (1/4 of a CP). It just feels more real.

Magic is failing. The most powerful spells have not worked for generations, but the pace of the failurE is increasing. Ninth level spells only work some of the time, and artifacts are being drained. Lesser items may also soon begin to fail. Can the cause be found before the last magic drains...

Hmmm... I wonder if I could sort of combine those ideas. Hidden in a (not too distant) ruin is a magic mirror, or maby a pool, that shows one's true desire (mirror of erised, anyone?). Of course, it has a deadly guardian. It will reveal that the pixie princess loves the Korred Prince, and that...

Actually, right now I have the "wedding scene" half-written and could happily take some advice before Sunday, when I might end up running it (or in a couple weeks, maybe). The wedding is between a Pixie Princess and a Korred Prince. It is as much a ceremonial marriage to forge an alliance as...

Sweet!

The transition is pretty smooth if you're running in the realms, and not bad if you've converted to a homebrew setting; essentially you are hired by Gundren (the dwarf from the Wave Echo Mines) to take a cart of processed ore from the Mines to Red Larch, the main town in the PotA adventure, to...

LOL! But did you have them give each other a hug afterwards? Seriously, chat with them about "this is a game, we don't let it make us angry for real." And GO Tilly!

I'm creating a region of the campaign world that was blasted (think nuked) by an evil wizard/priest 400 years earlier, in a failed attempt to destroy the world. He's still alive, now a lich, and has tried, repeatedly over the last 30-40 years, to conquer the Kingdom most of my campaigns are set...

Thanks! There are some good ideas in both of these responses, and I appreciate it. I like the fey wedding idea; maybe they'll just run into a whole wedding procession... accompanied by theiving pixies who need a wedding gift for the bride!