> >Travel times is the big one here.
>
> How does knowing that affect game-play? Since most of us
> travel by trains, planes and automobiles, very few are going
> to notice a journey that takes ten days should "more
> realistically" be twenty?
The first time I hit this problem was about 16 years ago while running one of my first RQ3 games. The PCs were travelling from Sartar to Pavis. I looked at the old RQ2 map and said something along the lines of "It's a long, arduous journey through bandit and nomad infested country to the fabled city. You'll need to take plenty of water, and would be advised to travell with a caravan for mutual protection on the... er... (checks scale and travell speeds) 2 day journey. .... Hang on a minute, that can't be right!"
Tought me a lesson, that did. Never trust the scale of a map of Glorantha, in fact try and avoid even looking at the scale at all if possible. If you think it should be a 2 week journey, damn well make it a 2 week journey and argue the toss afterwards.
Simon Hibbs
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