Aaron Berger oh yeah man, I did exactly that thing in Stars Without Number. So much fruitless lifting. Dumb.

In TOR I didn’t really do the travelogue itself — like, we didn’t spend a lot of time just narrating shit. The table time was really built around working out a route, thinking about what they already knew about Mirkwood, figuring out the best balance of speed versus shadow, and then executing the actual grind. Watching the endurance wane away, watching their hope evaporate, all that. So it wasn’t the traveling around so much as the impact of traveling through a land literally soaking in evil.

When they showed up in a town, I’d look at my microscopic r-map for the town to remind myself of who all was there and what they cared about. I might make a couple changes on the spot if I thought they’d been in the middle of something that might have come to pass while the fellowship was around. It was nice! And once they left, I’d just file it away again. Very few characters in TOR really have much action outside their little corner of the map. Like…Radagast and maybe one or two others.