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Great game ! I love the variety of loot and the locations table are great. However I did not quite understand how map making works (eng is not my first language).

Do we use Day Scale for travelling (1 point = a few hours of exploration) between Week Scale point ?

I think an example of a finished game map with differenciation between Week and Day scale point would help a lot.

I know the answer could be "do as you like, interpret the rules" but I am really trying to grasp what you intended with this map system.

Thank you !

David Blandy304 days ago

hey Vrago, thanks for checking out the game and taking time to read it through.

I think you’ve perfectly understood the essence of the map system. At Week scale, a map represents major points of interest, divided by a certain number of day’s travel.

Each of those individual days of travel is represented by other randomly rolled maps, as the player seeks to travel from Entrance to exit through the terrain.

The maps can even be used at a smaller scale, inside Bunkers and Lairs, to represent different rooms in an underground space.

Does that help at all?

Vrago303 days ago

Thanks for taking of your time to answer, I really appreciate it !

Okay so the maps at Day Scale take the place of the "lines" between two Week Scale point of interest to represent a sort of path between places. I was leaning into this but I'm glad you confirmed my doubts.

I was also wondering, when do you roll on the Terrains or Location table (those with the Environment and Feature columns) ? I guess the answer could be "whenever you feel like" but I'm wondering how you do it.

Can't wait to start my first game on this, the loot tables are really great

David Blandy303 days ago

no problem! I play that you roll when you or the players see it. Like say they’re at a Settlement and there are 3 routes out- they would know the terrain of each of those routes. And those terrains stay the same all the way to the next Point on the Week scale. If there’s local knowledge, say they’re taking to an NPC, the terrains can be known before they’re reached. I hope that helps!

Vrago302 days ago

Oh ok! I was talking more about specific features of terrain.

Imagine you want to travel to some Stronghold ahead, two days of travel through Wilderness. As I understood, we roll on the Map table for 2 maps (Day Scale) to go through before reaching the Stronghold. During the travel, we know it is wilderness, how often do you roll for features or environment on the "Wilderness Table" (page 46). Each point ? Or Each day ?

I don't know if I'm really clear here sorry ! :')

David Blandy302 days ago(+1)

ah ok! It’s a new roll, at every point in the Journey, roll for environment and feature. If there’s an exclamation mark, also roll for Hazard, if a question mark, also roll for Loot.

Vrago302 days ago

Okay I see ! Thanks for your patience.

Looking forward for the hardbook edition ;)

David Blandy302 days ago

no problem at all! I’ll be sure to clarify further in the rule book!

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