26 July 2018

III-17: Off The Beaten Path, Annotated

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Terrain Penalties: Outdoor Survival (OS) is referred to once again, and once again the rules are listed anyway. We questioned this the first time we read the rules, and recall it often when the criticism you need other rules to run it is levied against these rules. In truth the pertinent information is usually included. We wonder if perhaps Gygax was encouraging readers to use the resources listed (or ones like them) to come up with their own rules. 
 
Rest: dragons apparently wear themselves out flying. If their appetite matches their weariness (referee voice: heh-heh) then the surrounding countryside is in for it. A mob may come looking for the dragon’s rider to address restitution. 

Scale: 5 miles per hex is official but many referees, ourselves included, switched to 6 miles per hex to be easier to divide into movement rates. 

Turn: further obfuscating the usage of turn we have a wilderness turn being equal to a day.

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