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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9263290" data-attributes="member: 6807784">I've never enjoyed survival in classic D&amp;D games because I find the focus on food, water, and getting lost just something I personally do not enjoy. I much more enjoy travel in the vein of the LotR movies, where it's cinematic, scenic, and you zoom in when you happen upon something interesting (or it happens upon you).Because of this, I don't find the spells that impact survival all that problematic. Actually, I find them interesting, because since humans love to exploit technology, and magic certainly is a type of technology, the things you could achieve with goodberry and tiny hut are enormous. This has led me to some very fun worldbuilding, and it has allowed me to introduce new arcane survival challenges. Certain blogposts have helped a lot with this.I think if you have issue with spell survival, you should embrace more mythic locales. These are places with certain &quot;laws,&quot; and when those &quot;laws&quot; are broken, bad htings happen. Maybe you can't expose skin in this one region, and doing so means you are immediately cut by stinging winds haunted by the souls of gnolls that died here, hungry to taste flesh just one more time. Maybe in this region, you have to stay quiet because sound is greatly amplified, and one loud note can create a thunderwave centered on yourself. These kinds of arcane challenges are present even in Sword and Sorcery fiction, and I feel you can really make them fit just about any tone of campaign. I mean, LotR BOOKS had the mountain Moria was in be alive, old, and cranky! So low or high magic, these allow you to create new survival challenges that can push your players into new directions without having to just focus on food and water.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 9263290, member: 6807784"] I've never enjoyed survival in classic D&D games because I find the focus on food, water, and getting lost just something I [I]personally [/I]do not enjoy. I much more enjoy travel in the vein of the LotR movies, where it's cinematic, scenic, and you zoom in when you happen upon something interesting (or it happens upon you). Because of this, I don't find the spells that impact survival all that problematic. Actually, I find them interesting, because since humans love to exploit technology, and magic certainly is a type of technology, the things you could achieve with goodberry and tiny hut are enormous. This has led me to some very fun worldbuilding, and it has allowed me to introduce new arcane survival challenges. Certain blogposts have helped a lot with this. I think if you have issue with spell survival, you should embrace more mythic locales. These are places with certain "laws," and when those "laws" are broken, bad htings happen. Maybe you can't expose skin in this one region, and doing so means you are immediately cut by stinging winds haunted by the souls of gnolls that died here, hungry to taste flesh just one more time. Maybe in this region, you have to stay quiet because sound is greatly amplified, and one loud note can create a thunderwave centered on yourself. These kinds of arcane challenges are present even in Sword and Sorcery fiction, and I feel you can really make them fit just about any tone of campaign. I mean, LotR BOOKS had the mountain Moria was in be alive, old, and cranky! So low or high magic, these allow you to create new survival challenges that can push your players into new directions without having to just focus on food and water. [/QUOTE]

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