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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8637619" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Enough travel, including trade which you seem to only be thinking of in large scale terms for some reason, has always gone between settlements along roadways, that those roadways have been worth maintaining and keeping safe, and there have pretty much always been places to stop and rest along those roadways, between settlements. Like...a large portion of trade is historically done by people who cannot afford to charter a ship, and thus traded along roadways, doing trade at most or all of the stops along the way. That "small" trade benefits merchant guilds, because it gives them much easier access to goods from the surrounding environs, which they buy in town and then ship by whatever means makes the most sense at their scale of business, and given the destination. Again, overland trade routes have always existed, throughout recorded history, for a reason. More to the point of the thread, overland trade routes and maintained roadways specifically, exist in all of the major published dnd worlds. If you don't like that, feel free to start a thread about it, but you're mostly just derailing this one at this point.</blockquote>