This is something where I have direct personal experience (unlike walking/riding distances without roads, as Gloranthans do), so can answer the questions. Not that I will, here, but yes, I could come up with estimates for the base and all the modifiers, including my own "drive too fast" ability and a heavy modifier for "know the roads backwards".
> (If your walking speed is abstracted to
> 4MPH, and you have to travel 10 miles then you take
> 2.5 hrs - No
> contest required. Doing it in 2 Hours requires
> walking at 5MPH. So
> you set a resistance for that - say 14, for the sake
> of argument.
But that's just it: why 14? That's base resistance. Say you needed to do it in 1 hour, we can work out that needs 10 mph. But I haven't the faintest idea how to assign a resistance to it. It sounds pretty fast to me. A Gloranthan might say something about "faster than a galloping horse", but without Googling (and sifting through hours of argument), I have no idea how fast a horse gallops, nor whether it can keep it up for an hour. I can look up a horse in Anaxials, that'll give me a number, but I can't then compare that with 10 miles in 1 hour. I could look up records for people doing 10 mile races, but I don't know what value their "racer" was, nor how modern fitness compares with normality for a far tougher and more primitive culture. Did they have "run fast 10W"? Or "run fast 10W" minus about 15 for "modern wimp"? How do we guess the -15?
And instead of going through all this, can't I just have a little table that says "any running ability under normal conditions, for distances between 1 and 10 miles, 17 means 6mph, 10W means 10mph, further than that start on the endurance modifiers"? Or something?
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