#RPGaDAY2025 – Day 7: Journey
| Prompt | Result |
|---|---|
| Daily | Journey |
| Question | When |
| Mood | Grateful |
| Subject | Rule |
Prompt interpretation:
When are you grateful for the journey rules?
Wilderness adventures and overland travel play a big part in our campaign. OD&D introduced simple rules, based on the Outdoor Survival board game. A wilderness turn lasts a day, within which player characters are able to move a number of 5-mile hexes based on their encumbrance and terrain they are moving through. Judges Guild then developed a more detailed “campaign hexagon system,” which broke down the 5-mile hex into smaller sub-hexes, and then once again into smaller sub-hexes. This allowed us to zoom in until turn could be an hour. AD&D updated the rules, introducing a number of clarifications, subsystems, so on and so forth.
When I worked on our wilderness movement rules I wished something that would work well with the five league hexes, the size Wilderlands maps were originally supposed to be. That's why I turned to HarnWorld, which uses metric leagues (1 metric league equals 2,5 miles equals 4 kilometers) as default. Next, I decided to use a four-hour watch system, naming each period as described in the AD&D DMG (midnight, pre-dawn, morning, noon, evening, and night). Number of daylight watches depends on the season. Next, I made a table with all Wilderlands terrain types and calculated how much leagues can one travel on foot, horse, cart, and wagon.
Above would not be possible without a wealth of existing resources, which I am immensely grateful for.
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