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<blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 9076399" data-attributes="member: 82524">I have been working for years trying to come up with a way to make exploration mechanically fun.Nothing yet.The thing is, I think a lot of people look back at their years in scouts or camping with their family or watching the hours of walking to epic music in LotR and think 'yet, that's the think I want!', but then try to apply that to a survival scenario where you're trying not to die while nature tries to kill you in the slowest, most narratively unsatisfying ways.Survival is logistics and bean counting and failure looks like days of death spiral before you finally die from filling your pants with intense diarrhea because you ate or drank the wrong thing in delirious desperation. Not really the thing of high action fantasy.Meanwhile, the enjoyable parts of hiking and camping are things that aren't really mechanical: seeing the majesty of nature, getting fresh air, the peace and quiet, etc.Unless we're going to start having things like a buff for seeing a really pretty meadow and less 'you get death spiral malueses for not counting rations', we're not going to get far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vaalingrade, post: 9076399, member: 82524"] I have been working for years trying to come up with a way to make exploration mechanically fun. Nothing yet. The thing is, I think a lot of people look back at their years in scouts or camping with their family or watching the hours of walking to epic music in LotR and think 'yet, that's the think I want!', but then try to apply that to a [I]survival scenario [/I]where you're trying not to die while nature tries to kill you in the slowest, most narratively unsatisfying ways. Survival is logistics and bean counting and failure looks like days of death spiral before you finally die from filling your pants with intense diarrhea because you ate or drank the wrong thing in delirious desperation. Not really the thing of high action fantasy. Meanwhile, the enjoyable parts of hiking and camping are things that aren't really mechanical: seeing the majesty of nature, getting fresh air, the peace and quiet, etc. Unless we're going to start having things like a buff for seeing a really pretty meadow and less 'you get death spiral malueses for not counting rations', we're not going to get far. [/QUOTE]

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