Re: Overland travel- Honestly, even in non PBP I find this sort of thing is often kind of pointless. It generally boils down to 'everyone make a skill roll to see what happens,' and everything past that is kind of just flavor text? Most of the time in games I've played GMs tend to describe the situation, have people do the group check, and abstract the results.
So in this case, the crisis, "Oh no, you lost your wagon. Everyone make a skill check and describe what you're doing to try to deal with this."
And we make our relevant checks. And based on the results, you'd work out the consequences, which could range from having to go on foot with all the goods left behind...to successfully rigging up a replacement 'wagon' and getting all our goods along with us.
That typically keeps things moving.
So in this case, the crisis, "Oh no, you lost your wagon. Everyone make a skill check and describe what you're doing to try to deal with this."
And we make our relevant checks. And based on the results, you'd work out the consequences, which could range from having to go on foot with all the goods left behind...to successfully rigging up a replacement 'wagon' and getting all our goods along with us.
That typically keeps things moving.
