at least during "travel."
Here's how we've BEEN playing it: drawing from Uncharted Journeys and a few other sources all cobbled together I have the players roll a d20 and a d6. The d20 determines the encounter and the d6 determines when it happens.
There are roughly a dozen TYPES of RE during travel. Rest related. Food related. Bumps in the road. Caravans. Travelers in trouble. Bandits. Monsters. A few others. And what I've BEEN doing is ...winging it. But you can only have so many muddy sink holes, last adventurers and greedy bandits.
UJ uses a very mechanic heavy approach. Party members assume "rolls" on the trip. Depending on the type of encounter a given roll makes a skill check that then determines how the party rolls to respond to the encounter. Party rolls. Results applied. Move on down the road. Game-able n stuff but not terribly "satisfying" during the session. I've tried prepping a 4e style skill challenge but those are difficult to spin out spur of the moment. So I need to come up with something "different." After 50 years of a game there just ISN'T much different.
One of my players suggested "give us two minutes to come up with a solution and THEN adjudicate it." Which is nice for player buy-in and participation. So here's what I'm going to do this week. As part of my prep I'm going to design THREE RE's for each general type (thus putting a dagger in the heart of the "random" part.) I'll incorporate the UJ method and layer in some 4e skill challenge stuff. It'll be more detailed and granular than it needs to be BUT - it's what my table has asked for and once the initial chart is designed I'll only need to replace those that are used. Some weeks there will be NONE!
More lonely fun.
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