Getting Around in a Campaign

[elbandit]

Howdy!

I am curious what means D&D groups use to travel in thier campaigns.

Horseback? Wagon? Airship? Magical Means?

My group that I GM for is 10th level and ride on standard horses or ponies from place to place. They once used a magical gate to get from Mitric to Irongate and another time booked passage onboard a ship to travel accross the sea.

 

[Guillaume]

Most of the time, they either walk or ride horseback. But then they are low level.

 

[Telperion]

Yes. Walking, riding, sailing and sitting on a wagon are the four most used means of travel that I have seen.

I used to do these huge campaigns where it was necessary to visit the four corners of the world before the campaign really even got started. These days I don't exactly limit traveling, but I also don't go out of my way to promote it either. After all, there are all sorts of nasty tribes, beasties, monsters and gods know what else crawling out there. What's the point of going out there if you can stay in your cozy inn and have a city adventure instead? Not to say that my campaigns don't involve traveling: it just isn't measured in thousands of miles anymore .

 

[Henry]

Until recently, all my D&D campaigns have seen travel only by foot, by beast of burden, and by ship. Add to that in the Forgotten Realms Magical Gate, as well.

With Eberron, I've added Airship, Lightning Rail, and Skycoach as well!

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

In the one I'm playing it's a combination of griffons and teleportation... depending on exactly where we're headed. Although we've just stolen a wagon in attempt to go somewhere we really shouldn't be... We're going to reduce it and teleport close to the target area.

Game I'm running it's horseback. Except for the monk with the endurance feat - he runs. And the vermin druid whose got an oversized wasp that carries her around.

 

[Arnwyn]

"We walk from here."

 

[DragonLancer]

They use horses to get pretty much everywhere. Though in the current campaign they have ended up using a gnomnish flying ship and a sealed Keel Crusher shell for a submersible. *Shakes his head.*

 

[The Amazing Dingo]

Oh shyeesh...

In a campaign I was a PC in for years, lets see:

Walking, Horse, Tree Stride, inside the belly of a continent spanning rhemoraz, inside of a magical demon starship, and a couple teleport spells.

Now, I'll be DMing it with the former DM taking the seat as a PC. The character is an 11th level paladin with a celestial wyvern cohort/mount and so that creature will be coming into play a fair amount. One of the NPCs is also a wizard, though her instructor hasn't given her access to Teleport (he's a little too worried she'd get herself into trouble looking into things). Hence, in the future, it will likely be the wyvern mount (and wyverns are somewhat common as mounts in the Kingdom since they heavily populate the surrounding mountains).

 

[jerichothebard]

We ride ponies - it's an all dwarf campaign. Except my character, the lone human ranger/barbarian, with both Run and Endurance. He keeps pace with the ponies on foot.

 

[thalmin]

Walking and horse, with a brief use of wagons. But in the campaign I am about to start, they will be aboard ship. As cargo.