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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8381432" data-attributes="member: 53980">Sure, time pressure isn't a universal tool. It's one tool in your toolbox. Even if you remove the failure state from the time pressure, you haven't removed the challenge. There's still a challenge in managing the difficulty of attacking the cult. It's not really difficult to inform the players of this. You could have the characters find evidence that the cultists are creating witherlings, or a friendly NPC might simply tell them. Heck, if you don't mind breaking the fourth wall, you can simply tell the players. All depends on your style.Another option for making a journey interesting is survival. Exhaustion, managing resources, etc. Again, depending on your playstyle.My favorite form of exploration though are interesting exploration encounters. Like the titan supercomputer encounter I talked about earlier in the thread. That literally changed the entire course of the campaign. If we hadn't found that, and figured it out, the end of the campaign would have been entirely different. I think this kind of exploration suits most styles (apart from maybe something like a hack-and-slash game).There's really nothing wrong with fast forwarding over the journey and skipping to the adventure site. Although there will probably be some exploration at the site (unless you just skip to combat/social scenes). It all depends on play style.I'm not in any way suggesting that anyone needs to make exploration a focus of their game. That's a style choice. Not everyone enjoys every type of exploration, and that's important to recognize, IMO. However, that doesn't mean it can't be done, nor does it mean it can't be done well (if you and your group enjoy it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 8381432, member: 53980"] Sure, time pressure isn't a universal tool. It's one tool in your toolbox. Even if you remove the failure state from the time pressure, you haven't removed the challenge. There's still a challenge in managing the difficulty of attacking the cult. It's not really difficult to inform the players of this. You could have the characters find evidence that the cultists are creating witherlings, or a friendly NPC might simply tell them. Heck, if you don't mind breaking the fourth wall, you can simply tell the players. All depends on your style. Another option for making a journey interesting is survival. Exhaustion, managing resources, etc. Again, depending on your playstyle. My favorite form of exploration though are interesting exploration encounters. Like the titan supercomputer encounter I talked about earlier in the thread. That literally changed the entire course of the campaign. If we hadn't found that, and figured it out, the end of the campaign would have been entirely different. I think this kind of exploration suits most styles (apart from maybe something like a hack-and-slash game). There's really nothing wrong with fast forwarding over the journey and skipping to the adventure site. Although there will probably be some exploration at the site (unless you just skip to combat/social scenes). It all depends on play style. I'm not in any way suggesting that anyone needs to make exploration a focus of their game. That's a style choice. Not everyone enjoys every type of exploration, and that's important to recognize, IMO. However, that doesn't mean it can't be done, nor does it mean it can't be done well (if you and your group enjoy it). [/QUOTE]

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