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==Custom Rules==
[[Pointcrawl Rules]]
*Shelter and Weather
**The gist is, generally speaking, you're going to want tents. Blankets for sure, at least until the summer.
**Penalties here will follow the WWN rules for Starving, Thirsting and Freezing
*Disease and Illness
**The Heal skill will be valuable here
*Food, Gear, and Supplies
**Near the river, I will be handwaving the availability of water but food will be important
**This does not apply in mountain areas, nor swamps unless you want to make lots of disease checks
**The further away from the river you travel, the more likely that water will be a concern
***I will give you some in-game warnings of this
**If you want to hunt or fish for food, we're using the Foraging rules in WWN
*Traveling through a Hex
**Because this is a pointcrawl and not a hexcrawl, there's going to be a little more handwaving from me. I expect that you will be going off in random directions at first, but will soon default to known paths, discovered roads, following rivers and streams, etc
**I am tracking miles traveled but not studiously marking sub-hexes explored or anything like that
**I will allow the WWN rule of "to lightly explore a standard six-mile hex for points of interest takes a full day of scouting" but emphasis on "lightly"
**I will initially provide a hexmap that has hex type (e.g., Plains, Hills) but no more detail.
**I am going to roll for random encounters every six miles traveled (with allowances for extra checks if the party remains in one place for too long)
***My encounter table gives only a 1 in 6 chance of encountering any given "monster", with the other 5 in 6 representing tracks, spoor, etc.
*Upkeep
**Typical "upkeep rules" where you choose a level of comfort and pay that much up front each month.
**Use the amounts from the Services and Living Expenses table on p 34 of the rules.
*Wilderness Travel Gear
**One man tent - 20 sp (1 enc)
**Blanket - 1 sp (1 enc)
**Bedroll - 5 sp (1 enc)
**Wilderness Travel Gear bundle - 40 sp (5 enc)
***one man tent
***bedroll
***blanket
***cooking utensils
***small hammer
***shovel
***waterskin
***tinder box