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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceFractal" data-source="post: 2842384" data-attributes="member: 27704">Actually, it's not impossible to make high-level PCs trudge around in the snow - it just takes a different technique.  At low levels, the journey is often the focus of an adventure - what you do at the destination may be quite simple, like delivering an item or asking advice - but the task of getting there is the tricky part.  At high levels, this won't work because 99% of the time, the PCs can skip the "getting there" part.  Sure, there's that 1%, but if you used that in every adventure it would hurt verisimilitude.So, if you want a wilderness exploration adventure for high-level PCs, the wilderness must be the goal of the adventure, not an obstacle in the way.  For instance - in your case you mentioned travelling through the far frozen north to get to a city.  Now imagine if the setup was a little different:The city is not too hard to get to, but the reason it remains mostly a mystery is the guardians - extremely lethal golems set up by the previous inhabitants.  To get past them you need some kind of weapon that's lethal to them, but what that would be is unknown.  However, what is known is that at some point in the past, an army tried to defeat these golems, and that one hero was able to destroy several of the golems with his weapon before the entire army was killed and scattered across the frozen wasteland by a freak tornado.  So, nobody knows what the weapon was, but they do have a record that it emanated strong evocation magic.  Presumably by this level the PCs have the spell Arcane Sight, so they have a way to find the weapon.  All they have to do is search the many-mile area where the army's remains are scattered for a strong Evocation aura.  They can Teleport to the general area, but that won't tell them where the weapon is.  And they can't find any info on the weapon, because they don't know the hero's name, what type of weapon it is, or what is was called.  Maybe it isn't even a weapon in the strict sense - it could be a wand, or another type of magical item.</blockquote>

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