11-27-2017, 12:02 PM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2015
|
Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
As a simulationist old-school veteran GURPS (& TFT & wargaming) GM who hasn't entirely kept up with all of the massive number of GURPS releases over the decades, I'm wondering where the most detailed & realistic travel rules are to be found?
I've got the Basic Sets 1e 2e 3e 4e... and Dungeon Fantasy 16: Wilderness Adventures, and Vehicles and Low Tech 3e & 4e and am getting the Low Tech I & II Pyramid issues and am eyeing the Pyramid issue titled Overland Adventures and wondering if it has better rule content than I already have, or if it's mainly just adventures and ideas. And, if there are other sources I've missed, either for sale or buried in a forum discussion or blog or something. Thanks! |
11-27-2017, 12:20 PM | #2 |
Join Date: May 2009
Location: In Rio de Janeiro, where it was cyberpunk before it was cool.
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Pyramid 87 Medieval Sea Trade and Pyramid 95 Overland Adventures provides usefull information on this subject. As well as Low-Tech, Low-Tech companion 2 and 3.
But also take into consideration that several factors influence travel speed. Napoleon got his army to the places he needed faster than the enemy would anticipate not because he had superior travelling TL, but because he was willing to plunder the countryside and force march his soldier's to their limits. |
11-27-2017, 01:44 PM | #3 | |
Join Date: Dec 2013
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Quote:
And that good morale was due to a history of success in battle, as well as oratory skills. There's always more detail. ;) |
|
11-27-2017, 01:47 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Renton, WA
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
I am curious - what is your goal with these more detailed rules? Did your players ask for more detail on overland travel?
I am sincerely curious, not being snarky. |
11-27-2017, 02:27 PM | #5 | |
Join Date: May 2015
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Quote:
My first RPG campaign was circa 1980 using The Fantasy Trip: In The Labyrinth, which despite being a fairly short book included the fundamental mode of play that the world is mapped with terrain types and roads and there are rules for how much you can carry and how your leader and other members' abilities affect your ability to not get lost when off-road, and survive outdoors. The details of getting from place to place (and acquiring and perfecting maps of the world, with the GM never showing the players the maps that were the actual accurate terrain) and finding new lands with new situations and opportunities was one of the most intriguing parts of play, and having good travel rules was part of it, and something that was a bit hard to find. With a reasonable map, the players have choices of not just where to go but how to get there, and it's far more interesting if there are appropriate rules that make sense for the challenges and outcomes of trying to travel through different terrain in different conditions. As one friend likes to say, "getting there is half the death!" |
|
11-27-2017, 05:34 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Dec 2013
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
...Perhaps we should be asking you for such rules. :)
|
11-27-2017, 11:16 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Renton, WA
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Awesome. I swear there were more advanced rules for foraging, starvation, and thirst including long-term fatigue rules in After The End?
|
11-27-2017, 11:48 PM | #8 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Buffalo, New York
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Quote:
|
|
11-28-2017, 12:19 AM | #9 | ||
Join Date: May 2015
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Quote:
Quote:
I remember the winter clothing and freezing rules in Interplay, assuming that's what you mean. Also had other kinds of winter clothes which went straight onto our equipment lists. |
||
11-28-2017, 09:11 AM | #10 | |
Join Date: Jul 2008
|
Re: Where are the most detailed & realistic travel rules to be found?
Quote:
It's possible one of the sources you have replicates this, but I don't think so.
__________________
I don't know any 3e, so there is no chance that I am talking about 3e rules by accident. |
|
Tags |
book recommendations, gurps, house rules, travelling |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|