Overview
To find out why the cockatrices have left the Lightning Swamp, the PCs have decided to investigate the Lightning Swamp to see what drove the flying creatures into town.
Before Game Considerations
- You are going on a long exploration of a large area, what are you taking with you?
- Are you going on foot or will you be mounted or taking a skiff?
- Will you take anyone else with you?
- There are parts of the swamp that are inimical to life, where the water is so hot that it will boil you alive.
How it will work
- This is a Hex map exploration mini-game, where resource management is an important thing to keep track of.
- Each hex may contain an RP encounter, a puzzle, a combat encounter, or nothing of note.
- You can only move from one hex to an adjacent one.
- Exploring a hex takes a variable amount of time depending on terrain, and how you are traversing it. See table below.
- This should take about two sessions to completely explore, but you will get to level two once you discover what is causing the cockatrices to flee the swamp. So that could take one or both sessions depending on your exploration.
Table
Type | On Foot | Mounted | Boat | Crossing |
Dry | 4 | 2 | X | Half |
Flooded | 6 | 6 | 4 | Third |
Submerged | X | x | 4 | Fourth |
Exploration