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<blockquote data-quote="bert1001 fka bert1000" data-source="post: 8452680" data-attributes="member: 7029588">For some people it's worldbuilding -- you get to experience some additional aspect of the geography/world through the journey.&nbsp; Which they find fun even when on a 'mission'For some people it's emergent play -- you don't know what you are going to get which can be fun for both the DM (think on your feet for a change even when the rest of the adenture you have more scripted)For some people I think it's a verisimilitude thing.If it takes 3 days of overland travel through wild lands with 5th level characters to get to Luskan then given the FR North Coast established fiction, chances are they run into something &quot;Tier&quot; appropriate (For 15th level characters the journey is handwaved or they teleport).&nbsp; &nbsp; The Journey rules just give you an option of how to decide what that is, and the LU characters also have some abilities that plug into this system to allow characters to contribute to this pillar in a character resource way.&nbsp;&nbsp; So even if its a &quot;pain&quot;, there are some groups that value this &quot;realism&quot; more.Overall I think it's a good edition to 5e.&nbsp; &nbsp; As others have said, you don't always have to use it.&nbsp; Personally, I would have liked some form of Extended Skill Check enviromental challenges which I don't see yet from my reading (ala Stalker0's Obsidian or 4e SKill Challanges).&nbsp;&nbsp; It looks like most of the enviromental challenges are suggested individual checks or group checks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bert1001 fka bert1000, post: 8452680, member: 7029588"] For some people it's worldbuilding -- you get to experience some additional aspect of the geography/world through the journey. Which they find fun even when on a 'mission' For some people it's emergent play -- you don't know what you are going to get which can be fun for both the DM (think on your feet for a change even when the rest of the adenture you have more scripted) For some people I think it's a verisimilitude thing. If it takes 3 days of overland travel through wild lands with 5th level characters to get to Luskan then given the FR North Coast established fiction, chances are they run into something "Tier" appropriate (For 15th level characters the journey is handwaved or they teleport). The Journey rules just give you an option of how to decide what that is, and the LU characters also have some abilities that plug into this system to allow characters to contribute to this pillar in a character resource way. So even if its a "pain", there are some groups that value this "realism" more. Overall I think it's a good edition to 5e. As others have said, you don't always have to use it. Personally, I would have liked some form of Extended Skill Check enviromental challenges which I don't see yet from my reading (ala Stalker0's Obsidian or 4e SKill Challanges). It looks like most of the enviromental challenges are suggested individual checks or group checks. [/QUOTE]

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