Changing Rules that Discourage Play

[Heero]

We will have to agree to disagree on this one.

[oldgrayrogue]

Wandering monsters will be accounted for by the random encounters.

'Space' will be accounted for with the multiple 'complexes' of areas that are going to be added for adventure off the OLM. These are 4-10 grouped areas of adventure for exploring (and infesting) and there will be multiple (maybe more if I feel inspired to build more). I understand your concern, Adanu, but 30 minutes of walking a travel map to get anywhere isnt fun for anyone, DMs included since you cant actual place encounters or anything else in the area. And Id argue the same for BGs roads (unless infested, of course) -- walking 20 areas of mundane road with only occasional mushroom spawn to look forward to is hardly conducive to anything.

+1

[Ithildur]

Personally I'd love a combination of fast travel points (i.e. caravan/boat system for speedy travel, maybe some kind of 'free ride/ may I accompany your caravan?'' for horse owners) and random area generators upon hitting selected ATs. i.e. instead of the same 6 areas you go through to get from A to B, you may end up going through the same 6 plus a random 4 unfamiliar 'generic' (but thematically compatible, i.e. no desert area in BG) areas, which may or may not have random encounters/wandering monsters. The effect would be a sense of travel taking longer if you're on foot/greater distances/sense of largeness of the server, without actually having to add a bunch of new areas since you can 'recycle' say a dozen or so generic areas; the same generic areas can of course be used as well by DMs for wilderness adventure/encounters, which is bonus.

Just an idea.

[Zelknolf]

Personally I'd love a combination of fast travel points (i.e. caravan/boat system for speedy travel, maybe some kind of 'free ride/ may I accompany your caravan?'' for horse owners) and random area generators upon hitting selected ATs. i.e. instead of the same 6 areas you go through to get from A to B, you may end up going through the same 6 plus a random 4 unfamiliar 'generic' (but thematically compatible, i.e. no desert area in BG) areas, which may or may not have random encounters/wandering monsters. The effect would be a sense of travel taking longer if you're on foot/greater distances/sense of largeness of the server, without actually having to add a bunch of new areas since you can 'recycle' say a dozen or so generic areas; the same generic areas can of course be used as well by DMs for wilderness adventure/encounters, which is bonus.

Just an idea.

An ambitious builder attempting this will probably want to look into the ACR functionality for area instancing-- some memory leaks in the default NWN2 ones that we have solutions for.