>So you're assuming pure F2F play?
I assume it's the default style.
> > In my game, I've sometimes condensed weeks of travel to a short
> > description (often invoking the cinematic "moving red line").
>
>The what?
Surely this is used in the Indiana Jones movies, and many which were filmed in black & white (OK, so maybe it's not really red). The hero boards a trans-atlantic ship, or the Orient Express, or a DC-3, and travels uneventfully across great distances, as the animated line shows plots his current Cartesian coordinates.
A related image is the calendar pages flying off the calendar, if time passes without motion (though less appropriate in the non-literate culture I base my campaign on).
> > Usually after establishing the normal routine.
>
>Ah, so the first time, you'd play it out? To establish
>what normal routine is?
Usually, yes. (As suggested in Barbarian Adventures, I believe.)
-- David Dunham Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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