Comment on “Travel & Encounters”

Great work, Alexis. On my initial reading it seems you've finally brought together a rule set that places travel at the dead center of the gameplay loop. Set off in a direction; get stymied and change course; make good time, then bad; attend to your selves, followers, and belongings; sleep, wake, preparations, set out again ... choosing how fast to move and which direction to go, in an unfamiliar region with what may be an unreliable map ...

Last night after reading the Travel page, I watched Stagecoach (for the first time.) Your page was an appropriate appetizer given the movie's premise of travel under dangerous circumstances. Especially the scene where they ford the river, with the horses up to the tops of their necks in water.