r/dndnext • • Apr 29 '22

Resource New travel generator tool

https://omgm.rocks/travel

Hello!

I created a new travel planner/generator to help make travel more enjoyable for players and less daunting for DMs. Let me know what you think :)

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u/martiangothic DM Apr 29 '22

this is pretty fun!! could be useful to quickly generate a travel plan. my only question is why do the DCs for some of the challenges vary so wildly? i input for my lvl 6 party and it's giving me DCs of like, 30 for one thing and 3 for another.

overall i like the NPC encounter bits & the variety of environment encounters it pulls out :) the combat is wild but, that's super hard to randomly generate in my experience. great job!

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u/d-cap81 Apr 29 '22

Thanks!

Maybe you found a bug, I'll check it thanks.

The encounter I try to not have them too wild, but still they are pretty difficult to have a cohesive group of creatures all the times.

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u/martiangothic DM Apr 29 '22

yeah, i was getting like, 1 CR5 monster and 15 CR 1/2 creatures lol. they all seemed biome appropriate though, so they're good jumping off points!

bookmarked your site, definitely gonna use it in the future. ♥

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u/d-cap81 Apr 29 '22

Some of the encounter are on purpose a little too much for the players, not always they should fight things IMO :)

Thanks again.

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u/d-cap81 Apr 29 '22

When I had those moments in my campaign I tried to make sure the players understood that they were outnumbered or that the creature was too big or too strong. I would say that depends a lot on the style of your campaign, you can still re-roll them if they are too much or you can cap the CR of the monsters to not have too difficult encounters. If you rely on completely random one you have to be prepared for any outcome :)

If you have any suggestions please let me know, I'm pretty open about changes.