Spielerando

Count travel days over mixed ground when you cannot stop mid-tile

A road is quick, a forest slow, a mountain very slow, and the party should sleep on a tile, not between two. Dividing the total by the hours in a day gives the wrong number of days. Here is how to plan the walk with real camp spots and a tile that is longer than a day.

Why this works

People camp at places, not at hours. When a stretch cannot be split, some of every day is lost at the stop, so the real number of days is higher than the sum divided by a day, and the map must show where each night is spent.

When not to use it

Skip it for a game where travel is a quick jump and the journey itself is not played, or where the party can stop anywhere on the road. Then a simple count of hours is honest enough and easier to explain.

In the full entry

  • What to build, step by step
  • Starting values and the reason for each
  • 4 common mistakes and the fix
  • A diagram of every state
  • 21 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
  • How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Count travel days over mixed ground when you cannot stop mid-tile" (read_entry overland-days-with-whole-tiles-and-camps) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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