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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 2872047" data-attributes="member: 1165">Yes... but I suck at calculating how long the journey should take. I usually just measure it in "days".Some adventures make travelling part of the adventure, however.DnD "requires" for game balance four encounters per day. It's not going to make sense if the heroes have five days of pleasantness, then all of a sudden they are attacked by dozens of orcs one day. If you want to put in combat encounters, I suggest putting a "bandit controlled area" somewhere on the map. Make it secret, too. Now you have a good reason for the PCs to fight several times as they try to plow through the bandit camp. (Replace bandits with orcs, or whatever suits your campaign.)Alternatively, if the PCs are travelling through an area they've never gone through before, you could create a mini-adventure taking place at a village or something along the way. Write about three plot hooks that sound totally different but lead to the same mini-adventure. If your PCs visit three interesting villages with three interesting plot hooks, maybe they'll bite on one. And if not, save the mini-adventure for some other time.One of the things that annoyed me about travel in a medieval setting are horses. Since the PCs spend most of their waking hours on the horses (we don't bother with things like rest breaks for horses as that's all subsumed in the travel time), they often end up in combat encounters while still mounted. Most horses are weak, which is a bad thing when attacked by giant scorpions (who will just try to eat the closest unarmored thing) or wizards toting fireballs (so I blast the PC and his horse!). Furthermore, the speeds involved made combat a PitA. They won't want to walk, either - often PCs feel they have to get to point B within a certain amount of time or something bad will happen. That's often (but not always) the reason they want to travel in the first place. See if you can make them climb a mountain range where horses can't travel.It's possible your players are simply less patient than you. If they're not a fan of LotR long travel times, they'll never enjoy it, no matter how much you do.</blockquote>

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