D&D General How to Make Travel Meaningful and Interesting

[TheSword]

My preference is Cubicle 7’s Uncharted Journeys which was an expansion of the system they put in place for Adventures in Middle Earth.

Nice simple - abstract not too complicated but has a meaningful impact on how the characters are at their arrival.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

I only play in person, so I do not know that feature. But that sounds like a cool feature.

It really is.. it lets my Wizard or Bards truly do the Gandalf thing and play lorekeeper for the party. So, I whisper what they connect with a knowledge check..then they get to frame it up to the party if they choose to. It leads to some cool situations as well, such as, the wizard being the only one that saw past a cursed sword's illusion that made it usurp the place of a +1 magic longsword on the fighter... the wizard is waiting to see what happens out of sci/arcana curiosity

 

[GMMichael]

Long journeys? You should act a little like a reality show producer, and ask the characters how they feel about each other or something that's happened. Bring up a character's background, and they can talk it out as they walk or against the backdrop of another encounter.

Failing that, see Pee Wee's Big Adventure for inspiration. I think that was a journey movie...

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

Long journeys? You should act a little like a reality show producer, and ask the characters how they feel about each other or something that's happened. Bring up a character's background, and they can talk it out as they walk or against the backdrop of another encounter.

Failing that, see Pee Wee's Big Adventure for inspiration. I think that was a journey movie...

I've mentioned this before, but it is kindof nuts how very non high fantasy-framed things translate to real solid inspiration for this kind of thing

 

[Scott Christian]

It really is.. it lets my Wizard or Bards truly do the Gandalf thing and play lorekeeper for the party. So, I whisper what they connect with a knowledge check..then they get to frame it up to the party if they choose to. It leads to some cool situations as well, such as, the wizard being the only one that saw past a cursed sword's illusion that made it usurp the place of a +1 magic longsword on the fighter... the wizard is waiting to see what happens out of sci/arcana curiosity

That sounds like what technology should do. Very cool.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Elevator music.