Of course, after writing this message, I played a few
quick seasons after work before heading home, and sent
off a nice straight exploration party that disapeared
in the wastelands of prax, taking my last Vingan (aka
last in cult person for Orlanth and Aroka, which I
have yet to succesfully complete) with it. *sigh* I
really should know better than to say things like
that.
- Bryan Thexton <bethexton_at_...> wrote:
> Rules for safe exploration:
> 1) Have pathfinder operating
> 2) Have a Vingan (or Issarian with good combat) on
> your ring to lead the expedition
> 3) Have an Odaylan on your ring, so you can assign
> two
> magic to hunting, and do so
> 4) Have tracking active
> 5) Have sense chaos active
> 6) Leave during Sea Season, or at worst in Fire
> season
> 7) Travel slowly
> 8) Do whatever you can to suppress banditry
> 9) Be lucky
>
> I'm not really sure that 3, 4 and 5 make a
> difference,
> but since adhering to these rules I've had
> incredibly
> low fatalities. Maybe I'm just working point 9
> really
> well, I don't know! I realise, by the way, that 9
> is
> hard to control, but in practice I interprate it as
> "When things seem to all be going bad, big
> expeditions
> may not be wise, and when your magic is low, stay
> close to home."
>
> Oh, and someone else mentioned doing your
> exploration
> in small chunks, and I totally agree. I seldom go
> much more than a screen inch into unexplored
> territory
> at once. Hey, its a long game, you'll get there
> eventually, and its more likely you'll get home
> again
> if most of the trip is through known territory.
>
> Oh, and when the gods tell me to go visit far off
> places early in the game, I send someone
> expendable--usually a spare hunter.
>
> --Bryan
>
> --- bjm10_at_... wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Davison Nick wrote:
> >
> > > I've lost 10 weaponthanes and 10 footmen before
> > now. (Yes. I had
> > > Pathfinder in operation)
> >
> > When exploring far-off locations, I prefer to send
> > 30 footmen and 10
> > weaponthanes as a minimum, unless I'm trying to
> get
> > a troublemaker killed
> > off.
> >
> >
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