D&D 5E How should I run optional exploration rules?

[machineelf]

Do you have any specific questions, or would you just like to see an overview of how it would go down, with some up to date examples?

I wouldn't mind the latter.

I DM'd my game on Thursday and it ran fantastically well, however I didn't need to use the exploration rules because they haven't made it out of the city of Bryn Shander. I'd still like to get a clearer idea of the best (or best homebrewed) way to run exploration, because it seems like a potentially fun aspect of handling travel.

 

[ambroseji]

I have used the principles behind the wilderness exploration a couple of times, along with my interpretation of how passive perception will work. However, when I have done this I have done away completely with the 1hour exploration turns. Instead, I asked players what their characters were doing throughout the travel and did a d20 roll per player to determine if there would be random encounter. If there was no random encounter I glossed over that day of travel and moved to the next. When there was an encounter, then I made the party roll checks for what they were doing.

It took some some of the tedious rolls out of it.

I haven't used the exploration rules in a dungeon because my dungeons are usually fairly small-scale, but I could see it work better in that situation than in the wilderness.