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Message: <blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3347209" data-attributes="member: 10412">Hahahahahahaha!!!!You're using the Forgotten Realms as your baseline?No wonder your view is so skewed.In your game world, it's extremely easy to get to a highly populated area. My world has borderlands, wilderness, dungeons, mountains and the players don't have perfect maps of everything. There are areas to explore, and places to adventure.If you make it easy to get to heavily populated areas all the time, that's your choice as a DM. That's not something the game forces you to do.Show me where in the books where it says you are limited to traveling 2 - 3 days into dungeons on the outskirts of heavily populated areas.They were removed because they were silly, and made an already arduous process a crapshoot besides. A lot of 1st Edition players didn't even use them. Imagine how delightful the scene would have been in the Conan movie if they'd fought off the spirits of the dead, and the wizard looked at Conan's body and said, "Oh well! System shock. Sucks to be you. Guess we'll try again tomorrow night." If you feel those mechanics add something to your game, use them. For a base, core rules game, they make no sense.Simply because you can make something silly and hard on an anal, nitpicking level doesn't mean that's the best way to go.A village will have scrolls of Gentle Repose? That exact scroll? Just sitting there waiting for players to use them on the way to the metropolis to get a McResurrection? Wow. That's convenient.The RAW nowhere dictates the pace of your story or whether PCs always have time to everything they want to do. That is absolute nonsense. If you write stories that can always be put on hold indefinitely, that is YOUR choice.It is silly, and it's most certainly NOT the system in place. The rules give you guidelines. What you do with them is your choice.From what you've described, you've made some very poor ones.</blockquote>

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