Best Ways to Run Overland Travel in D&D 5e 

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For the nothing strategy, ask them to make a skill check anyway to scare them. It works really well. Thanks for the advice!

I've looked at a gazillion dnd you-tube channels. This is by far the best one imo. Great content, great format. The content is tight, like you have been playtesting forever. Thanks man, I pride myself on my homebrew, but you have made my games much better in several ways already. Cheers!

1:26 Travel Roles for PCs 7:48 Skill Challenge 11:08 Nothing (Skip travel/fast travel) 13:44 Encounter Tables

I'm fond of just throwing little bits of the world in their path and seeing how they react. In a recent game the group stumbled upon a shrine to Lady Luck. Now the divination wizard is considering a possible faith.

My favorite encounter idea is a social one where adventures come across the grave of an epic hero. If they are polite and respectful they get something helpful. Or if they are rude....

I know I’m suuuuper late to the party here, but in case anyone sees this I just have to say that this was a phenomenal video. It was exactly what I needed at this point in time and the advice within really helped me solve some of the pain points I have been having when running my sessions. I pride myself on how I’ve run my game and how engaged my players have been both in role play and in interesting combats. But I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing- and that was exploration. These tips really helped me to both recognize and enhance this crucial 3rd pillar of the game that I had been neglecting.

"What do you two talk about?" Genius advice. Simple and effective. Again, congrats on the 1000 subscribers! Keep it going dude!

My preferred method is limited random encounters (sometimes will be nothing), BUT NOT JUST COMBATIVE! It could be a Traveling Trade Caravan or a random thing you can explore or a Traveling Troupe of Minstrels/Entertainers or a random Farm with a Food Stand. The only amount of Combat Encounters is 10% at most & even then it would most likely be a random Animal Attack.

Encounter idea: Coming upon the destroyed camp of another adventurer group that was ambushed on their own long rest. Use a skill challenge to figure out what happened and if they succeed the challenge they are rewarded by finding useful information or an item that was missed by the attackers. Bonus points if you can tie a dead adventurer to a party member’s backstory/previous group adventures.

All those travel roles basically made me say "that's me!" Sincerely, any ranger

Your point about thinking about what failure looks like at an individual level and at a group level is some cash money advice! hope you're doin well!

Best thing about rewatching an older video is seeing you hope for 200 likes and the video now had 2000. I'm going to use the roles in their next session, thanks. I tried skill challenges but at level 2 with a bard and a cleric's help they were rolling over 20 most times.

This guy is a wizard... a hairy wizard and everything he says is pure gold. Thanks man for your stuff. It's good.

Very apt timing, my players are about to embark on an overland journey of several days.

I am so glad you mentioned Marching Order, I recently implemented this is in my games because players gets suspicious and meta-game when I randomly ask them where everyone is in a room or on the road. Now they're locked in regardless of whether movement is for flavor or a precursor to battle.

Your suggestion of a roc in the grasslands made me want to make a pun. You see a giant rock flying toward you, what do? I shoot with an arrow; i try to conceal myself in the grass; i move 5ft to the right. The arrow bounces off the surface of the igneous projectile unaffected.

In a friend’s Eberron campaign, they travel by Lightning Rail, and there is always a murder mystery. They don’t run them after the first, but time back in talking about the murder they just solved, all adding details about what just happened.

Very similar to the "what do you talk about" question Ive been asking things like "there was a party on board your ship during travel, what did you do during that party?" "You made a friend during this party who was it and why did you bond?" That was my favorite, my cleric met a vagrant and converted him, he became a permanent follower with some light healing spells to help the party between dungeons. I generally omit certain skill checks in these low stakes encounters, so that the player doesn't have to worry about failing during a good opportunity for roleplay or establishing their characters personalities.

Love your stuff! Encounter: Someone who is after a party member catches up to them in the night.

My current campaign features a vast island that is very sparsely populated: think colonial Iceland in a magical world (Skyrim meets Thor: Ragnorok). Lots of overland travel, little shelter, and no shops. My travel rules are very similar to what you've outlined here, and I will be stealing the "Role rolls" you've detailed. I've been playing & DMing for a very long time now (I started with the red box) but I still find your videos to be helpful in thinking up ways to make 5e better for my players.

Really enjoying the channel, Coach. Keep up the good work! I know I missed the cut off, but here's my random encounter: The party encounters a weary man on the road attempting to pull a sled with a boy of about 12-14 lying on it, wrapped in blankets. One of the rails of the sled is broken, and though hardy, the man is fatigued. He explains that the boy is his son who is injured/sick/cursed (whatever puts him near death, and outside of the ability of the PCs to heal him), and is near death. He is trying to get him to a secluded monastery high on the nearby mountain where the boy can be healed. He adds that if his son dies, he will not be able to work his secluded farm well enough to feed his family, and they will likely all die. He begs the PCs to help him up the mountain to the monastery. The fun part about this encounter is that it is a moral choice for the PCs, and it can either be legitimate, or it can be a trap, and the man and the boy are part of a troupe of bandits luring travelers off the main road to an easy ambush site. You're the DM - it's up to you!

Holy Hannah - this was posted in March and you jumped up FOUR THOUSAND subscribers?! I’m late to the party, but I figured I’d share a little bit about I handle travel. Just like you, I tend to focus more on travel in the early game, and spend less time with it later in the game. Of course, that is dependent in the scenario. First things first - variety is the spice of life. Sometimes they walk. Every so often, a ship is the best way to get there. Maybe an airship or a flying creature offers to take them somewhere when speed is important. Horses (or in the case of my Great Plains dwelling halfling civilization, their mounts are kirres (giant tigers with six legs, horns, and a barbed tail...they are SO bad ass), or whatever near mount the civilization they are helping or near happens to use. The occasional wagon. Heck, those halflings even have wagons with sails - a literal Prairie Schooner that sails across the Plains. And if the party is lucky, someone helps them teleport if they can’t do it themselves. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch! One thing I absolutely love is - not all encounters have to be a fight. You can have hostile bandits, and someone in the party might try the unthinkable - actually TALKING to these people. I reward the heck out of that. Or, maybe a traveling salesman (maybe a snake oil salesman, or maybe he has real stuff.) Depending on how the party reacts with this guy, maybe he might offer a quick side-quest to them, with a fairly decent reward. Of course, if they don’t like him, or are busy trying to steal from him/distrustfully interrogate him/etc. he is just going to want to get away from them. But, I really like keeping them on their toes. The scraggly looking pair of guys traveling down the road, obviously hungry, and seemingly on the run from someone by the way they keep nervously looking around, or how uncomfortable they are during stops or in open areas - they turn out to be really good people who just happen to be distrustful because people can be awful, and they’ve been bamboozled before. Or, the old lady and her grandson who the party instantly has a soft spot for. She offers to cook dinner, and when the party wakes up, they find out half their gold and their food is gone, or maybe just one high-value magical item. If they ever get caught up with, they find out the “old lady” isn’t so old, and the grandson isn’t so...”grandson.” It could be illusion magic, or just really good disguises...maybe the group is a pair of lovers, enjoying the open road and the apparent freedom it has - still too young to understand the consequences of their actions. One thing I really try to drive home - these people GENERALLY don’t do these things to hurt the party - that’s a side effect. And in this vein, if my party is willing to have a real talk with them rather than kill everyone, or take them straight to the authorities, I will have it so the party can get all their things back, and they will have taught the thieves a lesson to the tune of possibly changing their lives for the better. Then, one day while traveling, who do they run into but the same duo, only this time living their best life? Conversely, if they lay a beating on them, or send them to jail for their actions? Well, if they run into them again, this time they are tougher, meaner, life has been hard on them and as a result they are less sympathetic to anyone else. And the party? Well, rather than recognize their guilt - they have a bone to pick with the party, One last thing about travel before I GO ON MY WAY *get it?* I usually have some kind of time pressure. Not a LOT, it’s usually somewhat forgiving. But, along the way, there may be some things that take time that they can choose to do. Maybe a shepherd boy lost his herd of goats, and the party decides to help. Or, a huge tree fell across the road, and a wagon is stuck there now, with a sick or injured person in the back that needs to get to the next town to see a doctor. It will take half a day to clear the road...but the party is supposed to be at their destination tomorrow afternoon. If they help, there is NO WAY they will make it there on time. Although I won’t force the players hand either way, what I will do (and they learn this over time) is reward the behavior. Sure, Lord Stickinass might be a complete dick about it. Sure, maybe they lose 200 go of their reward because they were late. I will rarely completely bone the party for doing this, but I will ALWAYS have it come back to them in a much bigger way. For one, maybe one day the guards capture the party for some shenanigans their rogue got into...well, maybe this group of strangers (that it turns out was the group in the wagon) comes and tells the guards there is no way these are the right people - the group you have in chains before us JUST travelled into the city with us this afternoon. Or maybe they have some kind of amazing tip. Or maybe it’s a couple years later, and the sick child in the back of the wagon is now a man - who works as a city guard. He won’t allow the party to do brazen illegal acts, but he might let them go somewhere they aren’t supposed to for a good reason, or share some important information he was privy to. Basically, you never know how Karma is going to manifest on the open road, and I try to facilitate its path as DM, and usually all I have to do is play off of how the players themselves choose to handle situations. They can absolutely choose to be jerks - but they are ensuring a colder, harder world for themselves. And they can be great people - bad stuff may still happen to them...but just like in life, how they choose to handle it and bounce back from the negative influences how the cosmic scales tip to their favor or not. Lemme know what ya’ll think! Sorry for the miniature book!

Just found your channel and as a long time DM, I'm finding good material to use here. Very nice editing, content and presentation. I look forward to watching more. I was thinking there might be a conflict with the Marching Order: Navigator having to make checks if they had the Outlander background, but on close reading, I can see it says they just have a good head for the maps and landmarks. That would imply advantage to those rolls. Very nicely done. I'll be importing that to my game next week.

Encounter: basilisk! Always a fun one, it gives laughs and seriousness to the encounter especially dodging the glowing yellow eyes

I really liked the content and the pace of this video. Right to the point with some vivid examples to make it real. Excellent

I love the travel role idea, (which I will now use) and your defense of nothing at higher levels. Churning out random encounters can kill momentum when the players are trying to complete an objective. For me the trick to rolling tables was trying to create a cool story line for the random monsters on the spot, and then seeing if I could add it to existing story lines of the world: these random monsters existed before encountering the players, so they were interacting with that world.

Another great video, looking forward to many more, especially the camping one, as well as, the resurrections rules homebrew....

My favorite random encounter is Tinker Town. This is a traveling group of shop keepers / Tinkers. Gypsy like interplaner travelers. They travel to distant lands and planes bringing back exotic goods. They have a variety of things for sell, magical, exotic and mysterious. Shops like Flutes Fortunes, Or Tiny Tinkers Toys. The possibilities are endless and it's a once in a campaign encounter. I've enjoyed creating the vendors for my traveling town. I've made them interplaner as well. They have connections in Sigil and have items *Including food, animals, and raw materials from other planes* Some of the vendors are villainous, and it's possible for so many plot hooks.

This is awesome, love all your videos and advice! Getting ready to start a new campaign and soaking it all in!

Thank you so much for this video, travel has always been something i struggled with making engaging for my group!

I’ve been fine for a while, happy to come back for this video, travel is one of my weakest point in GMing. Btw man you deserve an applause for the gorwing effort you put in the video, both narration and visuals. Every next one is better than the one before! Keep it up man! Ps travel tale (it happened in a Game i ran): my party was walking from one town to another and encoutered a traveling merchant, they traded some stuff with him and then left. After a while they found a naked family in the wood that told them someone stole their cart. It started this 30min chase in the countryside with the players tossing a scarecrow in the wheels of the cart (20nat) to Block it. It was one of the best things i ran (also they kept the scarecrow ahahah).

I like this idea, I just started a game and there were some technical difficulties and we had to end the session short right before the traveling started. One of the players is an Aarakocra and was talking about how she was going to fly a bit to do some scouting as they travel. I, now, want to use skill checks plus that scouting to give them some options; option 1 potential combat, option 2 a skill challenge short cut, option 3 spend more time and go around. This will allow her to fly back to the party and report the options and the players can chose one of my 3 options or make a 4th (which will probably just end up being a skill challenge.) Thanks for the idea, I love it.

Very good ideas. Implementing for sure. Thank you.

My DM had a random stranger on the path during our travels. He asked us for food or a bit of money. After giving him some, he gifted each of us something awesome then disappeared. We think he was the god of travellers or something! Maybe a table for mystical but likely safe encounters would be awesome!

Another one I just sent to my players. I love the idea of giving them roles! Thank you for sharing!

great vid, thanks 👍

Great video! I really appreciate the text format, since I have difficulty remembering stuff from just listening :)

Found this video from your arctic survival house rules. Super useful! Thank you for all your work. Definitely going to utilize some of these strategies in my Rime of the Frost Maiden campaign.

Great stuff. This channel is quickly becoming one of my favourites.

Rly a intereting way of make traveling more interesting. I will definetly try this tomorow with my group :)

Great video. I especially like the inclusion of a "utility" role to spark player involvement in the story.

Travel as a skill challenge is definitely something I’m going to implement, great idea!

I love what you do with your channel! You are definitely the go to homebrew DND channel. All your suggestions are always practical, fun, and easy to implement. Keep up the good work!

Great work fella, love the ideas. How about bumping into a group of folk going the same way (trying to do what the party is trying to do) Might be help, friendly competition or could turn nasty further along the road

You can also have a failed check seem inconsequential, yet the pcs picked up spores or burs (seeds) that they trek across the land. This could be an invasive species that trek everywhere, or specific spores that fall into specific areas, either way, when characters get done with their mission they then realize that crops are failing everywhere theyve been and they have to go solve it. This could lead to a bunch of other opportunities for story hooks.

Hey Dungeon Coach, you rock. Congrats on all the new subs. Wow these rules are amazing and straight forward.i can't wait to start uaing them. I also appreciate the shoutout.

This is a really cool, and well thought out system.

Ha, the psychedelic jelly reminded me of when one of the players I was playing with used mushrooms to make a powder strong enough to get a dragon high, then when the airship we were on burned down that powder was thrown into the fire causing a gas to be emitted and it made everyone so high that nobody remembered what happened after that

Sweet DBZ reference with the instant transmission haha. I wrote a terrain difficulty travel system that made the players make a survival check after passing through 6 squares or hexes. The DC was set by the difficulty eating of each of the 6 squares added together. Those who failed would take a level of exhaustion. Eventually I realized my players hardly knew the core rules and it might be a bit much for them. It could be fun with the right group though.

Kinda scanned through the comments looks for this question, but what kind of things would you have the leader roll for? Found your channel a week ago or so, and I am stealing so much of your content goodness , love it keep up the amazeballs work.

Hey DC! Some of the content on this channel is lit. Your skull challenge vid made me look at them in a while other line of sight! Speaking of which, did you ever do a video on your instant skill challenge you mentioned in this video? I ran a great skill challenge encounter type where a horse escaped in a city and they had to restrain it. Became so dynamic. Each failure obviously put the individual player further behind. Each success brought that player closer! But each ‘lair’ action became a different ‘setting’ with other things to interact with. I also added a timed fail state: if they didn’t pass the skill challenge by round 5, the horse had escaped out into the wild. It knocked into other horses which were running towards them: do they stop them from hurting civilians or run past. I had ladders to climb up to the roof (which didn’t count as neither a success of failure - essentially miss a go. Each success for them thereafter was 2 successes.) It knocked a civilian in a river. Offered possibly shortcuts where a failure meant they were out of the challenge but would count as two successes. In fact, anything where they focussed on anything other than the chase put them out (stopping the horses or helping people) The idea of making these cinematic montage scenes helped visualise that dramatisation massively. Like in films, there’s often that little ‘breather scene’ where they’re just running with nothing really to do but have a conversation or argument. So, during just a straight run (where I didn’t off any call outs just to break the encounter up) I said, ‘What do you talk about?’ The arguing that ensued after one of the players had knocked some barrels over causing the other group to make Dee saving throws and ‘narratively’ mentioned they fell behind (no failures) was hilarious. Right before they then realised the horse in the next ‘lair’ kept over a decent sized wall. Thankfully they caught it and a couple of sessions later the guy returned asking them to have dinner - turns out this guy is a pretty seedy man and they’re regretting their decision. I love this game So, thank you!

Hey! just found this channel! Thanks for the great tips. Now i'm looking forward to more and seeing you and your channel grow! +1 subscriber

thanks coach!!!

Encounter Idea - The party comes across a Warlock on the road, the warlock tells them that up ahead there is a goblin fort. Someone there has stolen something important to the warlock (magic item). He/she/they would love it if the party created some sort of distraction so he could get in undetected and steal it back.

I know I’m late to comments, but traveling during the Middle Ages was dangerous, therefore many different groups traveled together to common destinations. You could run an adventure that was a traveling band, ala Canterbury tails. This would allow for more intrigue and social adventures. Also a group of pilgrims is a pretty standard traveling encounter.

I've tossed in random encounters with well known D&D NPC's. Volo is one of my favorite. I mean the guy travels everywhere. So I have had the PC's stumble upon his camp. Where he has regaled them with tales of places he's travelled, drops names and rumors, and gives advice on where to stay in the town the PC's are travelling to,, and perhaps as a reward they get a copy of his latest tour book! Or maybe even a job offer. Send in reviews of places they stay at or visit, and he'll pay a few gold for each review. It might be interesting for players who like to write.

Best travel content in RU-vid!

Coach, this video had quite a distance to go to live up to all you have posted before, but it made that journey with new horizons set beyond the mile markers you had set it. You are mapping out such a wonderful set of information of homebrew goodness that blazes a trail new potential game play enjoyment for so many people! I cannot wait to ride this train to its next station of fantastic content to see what you have to drive home for us next!

Your videos are criminally under-viewed. The quality of your videos in terms of content and production value are right up there with the big TTRPG content creators here on RU-vid. I like what you're doing and appreciate your ingenuity, great work!

Really like the PC roles to enhance travel - just about any advice to center the game more around the players is right on IMO. Will be utilizing it in my campaign and my "fast travel" will be teleportation circles and spells for the most part.

Starting up a semi One Piece semi Polynesian Mythology inspired campaign on sunday and this kind of stuff is so useful x) also I think roll tables will work out well for me at least... The first island they'll be going to is an animated magical archipelago created by a society of necromancers. You know classic level 1 stuff. Had to think real hard about how that EVER became level 1 material. But I worked it out, and the place is a lot more interesting than I think I had come up with without the randomness.

Thank you for this great video I’m a New DM and want to know as much as i can to make my first game as fun as possible

Encounter idea: some foe the party has faced, needs their help. Could be fighting a monster or they just want the protection of a larger group. They can give some campfire talk about their lives and how they are doing now, maybe share something important to the party's quest.

Hey DC! This video for whatever reason took me awhile to watch. I was inspired currently I am running my players through a module as it was the first time I have DMed in 5th edition. But ever since starting it I have felt the need to make my own world, which I am prepping for my players to explore next! I love the travel roles but I have 6 players, have you came up with different ideas for more roles for larger parties? Thanks as always as I use said before I am really liking your content and just joined the discord yesterday, so happy to be be a part of this community!

Player watch forced rp is such an amazing idea and I would like to incorporate it in my next session.

Encounter Idea (that I'm waiting to get a chance to use): A group Goliath Warriors known as The Norns who guard an ancient relic called The Well of Fate. The Well's water can cause those who drink it to receive visions of their future. The Norns are led by an Elder named Vomak Fatekeeper and they are very protective of The Well, resorting to lethal force if intruders reside in their territory for too long.

Excellent ideas, mate! All kinds I've been considering including in my own game! 🤔 I particularly love the idea of peaceful travel as downtime activity amd role-playing opportunity. And I've always thought that putting important encounters in their travel path was just good prepping! Here are my two lists of roles I've been working on: GAMEPLAY ROLES/BUILDS: - Warrior - Rogue - Mage - Support - Advisor - Provider group roles: - leader - guide/navigator - scout/sneaker - hunter - cook - doctor - lookout/spotter - finder/forager/gatherer - warrior/defender - muscle - face/voice/talker - knower/informant - maker/crafter - researcher

youre killin it my man

You should check pathfinder 2e exploration Mode, it can give some ideas about roles and such

put this to the test and gave my players roles this past week.

If your party contains a Psi Warrior or two, or any class/race/backstories that deal with psionics or the Astral, throw a lucid dream at them. Maybe let them sense a dream or two nearby, and act/roll to make the rest of the party lucid, for shared dream shenanigans. If you've got fertile thematic material to throw omens and background lore at them, too, and you understand the limits of lucid dreams, it can be an amazing experience for everyone involved. It was for me.

Encounter idea: Swindler snake oil merchant that is actually 3 goblins in a coat. Players can trade with him/them or fight them.

Loving the DC tshirt!

Awesome

I factor exploration heavier in my game and use a hex map variation. Upon watching this and a few other similar videos I am developing a skill challenge method to include in my game for travel. Base DC10 + (1d4 -1 for how familiar the characters are with the route they choose) + (1d4 - 1 for weather or seasonality impacts) + (1d4 -1 for potential dangers). Average comes out to 14.5, but it creates some variability to add some tension. Plus you can increase a die (to a 1d6 or a 1d8) for added tension, like they characters are charting unexplored territory or they're being hunted. Or you can eliminate a die if it won't have any real impact, like the players are highly familiar with the route or the area is patrolled for safety. Players pick a skill they are proficient with to contribute and roll. I also like the idea of travel roles, and may explore that some.

I have a non combat encounter for when the PC’s travel. They find the skeleton of a dead warrior slumped against a tree with his spear/lance impaled in the skeleton of a dead owl bear. Or monster of your choice. Ask them what they do? Loot them? Bury them? Leave them alone?

Hi Coach! Did you make that random encounter table you talked about in the video?

3:52 - Those are wildebeest. No water buffalo in Africa!

ENCOUNTER IDEA: The party is walking down a forest trail and your scout here's the sound of the pitter-patter of many small feet. Your defender shoves his way to the front of the marching order and brings his shield to bear. After a moment you see a mob of small armored figures riding different creatures. Both warriors and mounts are clad and chain and plate mail each bearing their own unique weapon and heraldry coat of arms and tabards. There's a red face dwarf writing a hog a wild-eyed gnome writing a Mastiff, a barefoot halfling kicking his heels into the flanks of a giant badger, and all these knights are being led by a an onion knight kobold leading the charge on a capybara with a scaled to size jousting lance. The charge is fast paced and the noise is cacophonous as it charges straight for the players. The players can choose to move out of the way and let the charge proceed stop and try to fight at which point they will engage if negotiations turn sour. or the players can stop them and have dialogue if so they find that they claim to be on the tail of a questing beast (to be determined by the DM). When speaking the hafling can only seem to mumble under his breath, the dwarfs absurdly thick accent prevents anyone from understanding what he's saying, and the gnome speaks too fast for anyone to comprehend. It is always the cobalt who addresses anyone directly however he can only speak draconic his yipping and squawking only understood by few but those who speak draconic hear an eloquent soprano whose speech pattern is filled with eloquence and polish. The Cobalt turns rears his mount around and addresses the defender "I say, do not cause us to tarry for we are on the trail of the (questing beast) now stand aside, lest ye be smote!" A perception or investigation check reveals that the strange group might be able to back up those threats...

A mysterious illness overtakes the party. It's starts as the party is taking their long rest. Feverish dreams begin to plague the party. Exhaustion points are given to those that fail their saves. The saves increase the closer they get to their destination. The small dwarven town has been plagued with this same sickness. DM's choice as to what is causing the sickness. But mine was a sleeping green dragon whose lair was connected to the areas water source was having nightmares.

Kruthic's crash land kind of like the monsters in a quiet place, as a meteor flies over their heads or their camp as it crash lands a few miles away they see a wall of force traveling rapidly towards them as the dust and debris from the crash flashes past them swirling dust in the area, As they approach the crash site they see these strange looking creatures hastily moving about the crash site, many of them are digging into the ground several tunnels can already be seen including one much larger tunnel (think aliens for this next part) No matter which tunnel they descend they begin to see hundreds of eggs already layering the walls of these tunnels with slimy ichor soaking coating the walls and surrounding the pulsing purple eggs. The eggs contain rot grub swarms(reflavored, Kruthic eggs,larvae) while the young a d adult kruthic's attempt to push them out of their quickly formed tunnels which many are easily collapsible. At the end the encounter a Kruthic Queen,( reflavored a black dragon with some features from the core spawn, but you can choose your own queen) And there's many different ways this could go, do they contain and kill the queen? Is there another Queen they're unaware of? What if more meteors come? With this even shooting star sightings become a spectacle. As at a time more could come, now I reflavored the kruthic for this giving them less of the lizard feel and more of an insectoid theme. Thanks for all the awesome advice😊👍

Super nice video and PDF about Travel System! Could I have your quick opinion on something, dear reader? I´m trying to use the Role´s System mentioned in the video. I would like to add the Utility Role, twisted to some kind of Motivator: Charismas check to determine the morale of the group. I´m not sure what kind of bonus and maluses would be neat, balanced and interesting for that. Could I have some ideas? TY

I have a player with an Observant Ranger with max wisdom and perception expertise, so yeah... 29 passive perception senses things coming around blinds...

Hey DC, love this video as much as the others. ESPECIALLY different roles during travel rather than the boring survival. Need to find a way to implement the mechanic of not everyone getting long rests all the time. Side note, I have a question for you. You’ve inspired me to consider making a channel of my own. I’m a brand new DM and the topics in your videos have made me want to share my journey as a new DM, as I don’t see a lot of novice DMs on this platform. I was thinking of a channel starting by sharing my campaign and the story, while also sharing what I think was good and where I messed up right afterwards. Giving feedback and real life examples laid out for those who are so nervous to mess up. I wanted to know your thoughts and if you would be willing to share any starting tips? What equipment you recommend that doesn’t break the bank, how to engage in a creative way, etc. if not I understand, but regardless, look forward to more and more content and growth from this channel :)

Encounter Idea: A squadron of armored knights riding their white steeds confuses a member of the party of being a wanted criminal. (dm tool to bring npcs to a specific town if they fail to change the minds of the knights)

What is you only have 3 players? what if you have hirelings or henchmen on the team?

This is legit like dungeon world

One of my big problems with overland travel and encounters that involve potential danger and damage (whether from combat or non-combat sources) is that this damage seldom matters in the grand scheme of things. The damage just gets healed by the party healer, or during a short or a long rest and does not impact the party upon arriving to their destination. I've looked at the rules from Adventures in Middle Earth (where the damage sustained during overland travel doesn't get healed until after the party has arrived at their destination) but I have a feeling my players would be very upset with this ("Why can't my cleric just heal his 20 missing hp right now?!). How do I get around this?

Two people on watch at the same time? Is this what I should be doing...? I’ve been running one character per watch shift

Did you really think you could slip that shirt by us unnoticed??

This concept is borrowed from Cublicle 7 Adventures in Middle Earth

What if you have a party of 6 - 8 players?

Slavers escaped and are running away from Slavers when party encounters them: Do they help or just continue on their way??

I wished I watched this a year ago…

First again!!!

Watching DC makes me want to work out. Is that weird?

Travel I am not adverse to horses or hiring carriages

Just skip travel. Only boring movies and TV shows have travel. Just give everyone a stone of teleportation. Pop! from one exciting scene of exposition to another without tedious dice rolling, or combat, or monsters.