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<blockquote data-quote="Prism" data-source="post: 6510807" data-attributes="member: 9501"><p>In the end its what most long distance overland journeys are like and you need to use the normal techniques to keep things interesting. So a few interesting encounters, scenery, locations and people will all help. I have played this section and it was fairly enjoyable</p><p></p><p>We had some light roleplaying trying to enlist on the caravan which ended up getting the party split between two caravans. Our grumpy dwarf druid wouldn't even try so followed the caravan on foot for the first part - until he proved himself as a valuable addition</p><p></p><p>The DM spent the first couple of days on the road describing some of the other people on the caravan and we interacted with them a little. Every day he described the landscape, the camp site and any minor things that happened like when the travellers were nervous of an area, when a wheel came off a wagon - small stuff like that that.</p><p></p><p>Our first combat encounter came after a few days and after this we gained some more recognition from the others so we could start to find out what they were carrying and where they were going. To be honest had we not cared about all this stuff then it might well have been - 3 days encounters, 5 days encounter, 7 days encounter....</p><p></p><p>In total on the whole journey I think we had three combat encounters, an argument in an inn, and several non combat ones. For me the non combat was most memorable</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prism, post: 6510807, member: 9501"] In the end its what most long distance overland journeys are like and you need to use the normal techniques to keep things interesting. So a few interesting encounters, scenery, locations and people will all help. I have played this section and it was fairly enjoyable We had some light roleplaying trying to enlist on the caravan which ended up getting the party split between two caravans. Our grumpy dwarf druid wouldn't even try so followed the caravan on foot for the first part - until he proved himself as a valuable addition The DM spent the first couple of days on the road describing some of the other people on the caravan and we interacted with them a little. Every day he described the landscape, the camp site and any minor things that happened like when the travellers were nervous of an area, when a wheel came off a wagon - small stuff like that that. Our first combat encounter came after a few days and after this we gained some more recognition from the others so we could start to find out what they were carrying and where they were going. To be honest had we not cared about all this stuff then it might well have been - 3 days encounters, 5 days encounter, 7 days encounter.... In total on the whole journey I think we had three combat encounters, an argument in an inn, and several non combat ones. For me the non combat was most memorable [/QUOTE]
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