Travel Guidelines

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Travel is needed for stories to happen in different places and these guidelines help determine how long it takes to get there.

One can always use a Hermes Portal or a Faerie Trod to get somewhere fast but only if it is integral to the story.

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Base Assumption: 1 League is 4k, it takes about an hour to walk 1 league on good roads, and people normally only walk for 7 hours a day.

Walking

Quality of Road Rate of Travel Time Travelled Distance Covered Long-term Fatigue
Good Hurried 12 12 Leagues 3 Fatigue Levels
Good Rushed 10 10 Leagues 1 Fatigue Levels
Good Normal 7 7 Leagues 0 Fatigue Levels
Normal Hurried 10 10 Leagues 3 Fatigue Levels
Normal Rushed 7 7 Leagues 1 Fatigue Levels
Normal Normal 5 5 Leagues 0 Fatigue Levels
Bad Hurried 7 7 Leagues 3 Fatigue Levels
Bad Rushed 5 5 Leagues 1 Fatigue Levels
Bad Normal 3 3 Leagues 0 Fatigue Levels

Riding

Quality of Road Rate of Travel Time Travelled Distance Covered Long-term Fatigue
Good Hurried 12 22 Leagues 3 Fatigue Levels
Good Rushed 10 15 Leagues 1 Fatigue Levels
Good Normal 7 12 Leagues 0 Fatigue Levels
Normal Hurried 10 15 Leagues 3 Fatigue Levels
Normal Rushed 7 10 Leagues 1 Fatigue Levels
Normal Normal 5 7 Leagues 0 Fatigue Levels
Bad Hurried 7 7 Leagues 3 Fatigue Levels
Bad Rushed 5 5 Leagues 1 Fatigue Levels
Bad Normal 3 3 Leagues 0 Fatigue Levels

Poor weather will lower a road's quality by one or more which may make a road impassable.


Distances Between Places

Casa sus Baux is 1k from Cassis and it takes about 20 minutes get there.


** The road west from Casa sus Baux:

Casa sus Baux is 32k from Marseille and it takes two days to get there.

The road north from Marseille:

Marseille is 32k from Aix and it takes one day to get there.

The road west from Aix:

Aix is 75k from Arles and it takes two and half days to get there.

Arles is 35k from Nimes and it takes one day to get there.

Nimes is 56k from Montpellier and it takes two days to get there.

The road north from Aix:

Aix is 84k from Avignon and it takes three days to get there.

Avignon is 29k from Orange and it takes one day to get there.


** The road east from Casa sus Baux:

Casa sus Baux is 9k from La Coita and it takes half a day to get there.

La Coita is 20k from Bandol and it takes one and a half a days to get there.

Bandol is 19k from Toulon and it takes one and a half a days to get there.

Toulon is 65k from Fraxinetum and it takes five days to get there.

Fraxinetum is 101k from Nice and it takes four and a half days to get there.