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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8782532" data-attributes="member: 4534">A novel is a very different medium from a game and what works for one might not work for the other.  Travel in most RPGs is kind of glossed over in my experience.  We don't spend two hours of our precious game time trudging through the wilderness, we have a brief description of our travel before getting on to the good stuff.  It's not that wildlife isn't dangerous, it's just that encounters between humans and various forms of wildlife aren't all that common in the grand scheme of things.  If you go on a hike in Arkansas, you're more likely to suffer from weather related problems like heat stroke or hypothermia, injuries including blisters, sprains, or broken bones from falls, or just plain overexertion if you're not used to the exercise.  When I hike I worry about spraining something, not getting enough water, or overheating, but I never worry about encountering wildlife.  And it's not that I don't respect wildlife, I just don't encounter anything dangerous on a regular basis.  In the last few months I've seen deer, turkeys, various snakes, and one bobcat.  (The bobcat surprised me and it's probably the only one I'll ever see in the wild.)  On occasion I'll hear coyotes in the distance, but they're not going to mess with me.  When I get close to a potentially dangerous animal, usually a snake on a trail, I give it a wide berth and leave it alone.  Except for the one time I forced a cottonmouth to move on to greener pastures because it was particularly close to a trail where a lot of people were walking their dogs.</blockquote>

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