New Journey Rules - Ideas from AiMe

[Rich H]

Done some journey role task cards: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... 0Cards.pdf as a nice visual aid for my players.

And a journey tracker to support the rules: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... racker.pdf

[ThrorII]

I'm stealing your Journey Tracker sheet and reverse engineering it back to AiMe5e. Great job!! I'll share it on the AiMe forum and give you credit, if it is ok.

[ThrorII]

And by the by, your house rule is very similar to what I ended up doing a few years ago.

Instead of 4 TN20 Fatigue tests for 1 Fatigue point each (hypothetically), I would do 1 TN20 Fatigue test for 4 points. The number of Fatigue points and the TN are determined by the region traveled, distance traveled, etc. just like RAW. I did 1 roll for each region traveled through.

A success reduced Fatigue by 1, and each Tengwar reduced Fatigue by 1 more. A Trait could be invoked to reduce Fatigue by 1 as well.

I didn't think to have a set number of Hazards per hexes traveled, like AiMe does. Instead I just eyeballed encounters based the region and what sounded fun. In retrospect, it kind of broke down the same.

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[Rich H]

I'm stealing your Journey Tracker sheet and reverse engineering it back to AiMe5e. Great job!! I'll share it on the AiMe forum and give you credit, if it is ok.

That's absolutely fine. If you want me to send you the word doc of it then just PM me your email address.

[Rich H]

And by the by, your house rule is very similar to what I ended up doing a few years ago.

Instead of 4 TN20 Fatigue tests for 1 Fatigue point each (hypothetically), I would do 1 TN20 Fatigue test for 4 points. The number of Fatigue points and the TN are determined by the region traveled, distance traveled, etc. just like RAW. I did 1 roll for each region traveled through.

A success reduced Fatigue by 1, and each Tengwar reduced Fatigue by 1 more. A Trait could be invoked to reduce Fatigue by 1 as well.

I didn't think to have a set number of Hazards per hexes traveled, like AiMe does. Instead I just eyeballed encounters based the region and what sounded fun. In retrospect, it kind of broke down the same.

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That's good to know. It's always reassuring when people arrive at the same (or similar) conclusions separately.

I really like the journey rules in AiMe. I'll never play it as I think TOR on the whole does a better job, and I'm also not a fan of D&D, but I was really impressed with the journey mechanics - far more flexibility and less repetition in it than the TOR ones.

[ThrorII]

That's absolutely fine. If you want me to send you the word doc of it then just PM me your email address.

Nah, I was insomniatic two nights ago, so I did it up in word myself. Heavily plagurized off yours, of course. Thanks for the offer though!

[Rich H]

Playtested these last night to really good affect. The journey flowed a lot better and it was far easier to plan Hazards as a natural part of the journey rather than waiting for an EYE to be rolled and then having to get inspired or, alternatively, no EYEs being rolled and not being able to use any pre-planned Hazards.

I'll be tweaking some numbers but all-in-all I really like the changes as they remove repetition and allow more flexibility in instigating Hazards.

[Falenthal]

That's the way to go, Rich!

Waiting to see those rules as soon as possible.

[Rich H]

That's the way to go, Rich!

Waiting to see those rules as soon as possible.

I'm mulling over some of the elements so suspect it's still a week or two away. That will also allow me to run the gaming group through a couple more journeys just to test them out further.

[Rich H]

Here's the outline of the steps:

PLANNING AND PREPARATION
1 – SET ROUTE
2 – ASSIGN TRAVEL ROLES
3 – DETERMINE PERIL RATING
4 – PRELIMINARY PLANNING ROLLS
5 – GATHER TRAVELLING GEAR
6 – DETERMINE JOURNEY DISPOSITION

JOURNEY TASKS
7 – USING JOURNEY TASKS

TRAVEL AND FATIGUE
8 – DETERMINE THE FATIGUE TEST DIFFICULTY
9 – ESTABLISH FATIGUE POINTS
10 – RESOLVE THE FATIGUE TEST

HAZARDS
11 – DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF HAZARDS
12 – DETERMINE THE HAZARD DIFFICULTY
13 – SELECT THE HAZARD TARGET
14 – RESOLVE THE HAZARD

JOURNEY’S END: RESOLUTION

OPTIONAL: TRACKING TIME