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#1 Llenlleawg Sep 12, 2014 2:35:48	I have known of the Forgotten Realms, but I never actually played or ran any adventures in it. So, I hadn't realized how enormous the area is, even the area on the map in Hoard of the Dragon Queen. From Greenest to Elturel is 200 miles and from Baldur's Gate to Waterdeep is 750 miles! That's about the distance from New York to Charleston, South Carolina, and it's actually longer than the distance between Rome and Paris or Paris and Berlin.   Anyway, I mention this because I would otherwise be inclined to set this adventure (suitably adjusted) in another setting, but I'm finding it hard to conceive of distances that large without a lot (and a lot of interesting) things in between what is presented in the adventure as basically open and uneventful space, with the possibility of a few encounters (during two months of travel!). Any thoughts about condensing the physical scope of the adventure without losing its pacing?
#2 Atheosis Sep 12, 2014 8:01:00	Set it in a place where cities aren't so far apart.  That's pretty much it.   I'm just adding lots of stuff to the adventure to a) fill it out as it really is weird to travel so far and have little to nothing happen and b) to slow down what I find to be a ridiculously fast levelling rate.  Since I'm using the milestone system extra stuff doesn't actually add to the xp the players get per episode, which works well for my purposes.
(Reply to #2) Llenlleawg	Atheosis wrote:
#4 Huscarl Sep 12, 2014 13:20:14	Fair enough. I was just wondering whether the writers hoped that, say, the travel time might count also as "downtime" so that the PCs could, say, learn a new language from one of the fellow travellers along the way (or something to deal with all of the empty space!).
#5 Llenlleawg Sep 13, 2014 0:18:04	Steve, thanks for helping to clarify! It's nice when someone who actually knows the answer to a question (in this case, you!) can answer on a forum like this one.