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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8380131" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Okay great, if we want combat instead of exploration we go through the woods. If we just want to get to the destination to begin the adventure we take the road. We like the main adventure and would rather not waste time on random encounters just to fight more (we'll get plenty of fighting in anyways) so we take the road. A 30-second DM montage and we are back on track.Let's run with this for a second. Let us say that the ritual is going to be done in 15 days. And it is a five day journey. Then a single two day detour is no problem, but more importantly, let us say the the party does decide to skip all the shiny things and just rushes to the site of the Ritual of Evil Ritualing... then they arrive 10 days before it is done. How could we possibly not stop it with 10 days to act to stop it? Well, obviously you couldn't actually let us arrive with 10 days to spare, could you? Because then there is no challenge when we arrive, the cultists are clearly unprepared to even start the ritual and we have stopped it with ease. This is the problem with time pressures, either they end up being an illusion, because the party will always arrive &quot;just in time&quot; or they are serious and if the party actually does take them seriously and rushes... they could arrive with so much time to spare, that there is no real challenge or rush to complete the mission.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8380131, member: 6801228"] Okay great, if we want combat instead of exploration we go through the woods. If we just want to get to the destination to begin the adventure we take the road. We like the main adventure and would rather not waste time on random encounters just to fight more (we'll get plenty of fighting in anyways) so we take the road. A 30-second DM montage and we are back on track. Let's run with this for a second. Let us say that the ritual is going to be done in 15 days. And it is a five day journey. Then a single two day detour is no problem, but more importantly, let us say the the party does decide to skip all the shiny things and just rushes to the site of the Ritual of Evil Ritualing... then they arrive 10 days before it is done. How could we possibly not stop it with 10 days to act to stop it? Well, obviously you couldn't actually let us arrive with 10 days to spare, could you? Because then there is no challenge when we arrive, the cultists are clearly unprepared to even start the ritual and we have stopped it with ease. This is the problem with time pressures, either they end up being an illusion, because the party will always arrive "just in time" or they are serious and if the party actually does take them seriously and rushes... they could arrive with so much time to spare, that there is no real challenge or rush to complete the mission. [/QUOTE]

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