Mar 31, 2016 2:39 am
So, now that I'm actually prepping the next chapter, I have some information that might affect you decision to walk vs take boats. Here's a Handy Map of the Elsir Vale (CancerMan might want to add this one to the collection, it's simpler make it easier for figuring out travel and distances, I find anyway).
It's 50 miles up the river to lake Rhest, then another 80 miles across the Blackfens to reach the old city. Taking the boats down the river, you can average about 12 miles per day according to the adventure, but I'll round that down to 4 days to reach lake Rhestin (which puts you in the Blackfens). Crossing the Blackfens on foot is another 80 miles, at 15 miles walking distance per day which is 5 days (rounding down because I'm nice, so very nice... ; ) ).
If you walked through the woods, looking at the PHB, and treating the woods as difficult terrain, you could do 15 miles per day (still 4 days, but you won't have a boat should you decide to cross the lake instead of the Blackfens), and in fact you could go 'direct', which is about 100 miles instead of 130 were you to take the river first then walk... So 6.7 days, which I'll round up to 7 days because if you don't take a boat you have to cross the river somewhere (and I'll assume that takes .3 of a day to manage safely). So walking is in fact the best... cool!
So we all know it's: 7 days journey total, 3.5 days in the Witchwood followed by 3.5 days in the Blackfens.
From your conversation with the Lion of Brindol, you know the blockade is roughly at the part on the Rhest Trail where you see the road fork (just beyond the edge of the Witchwood). If you want to go directly there, it will be 80 miles from Drellen's Ferry, and so only take 5.5 days, all of that is through the Witchwood.
It's 50 miles up the river to lake Rhest, then another 80 miles across the Blackfens to reach the old city. Taking the boats down the river, you can average about 12 miles per day according to the adventure, but I'll round that down to 4 days to reach lake Rhestin (which puts you in the Blackfens). Crossing the Blackfens on foot is another 80 miles, at 15 miles walking distance per day which is 5 days (rounding down because I'm nice, so very nice... ; ) ).
If you walked through the woods, looking at the PHB, and treating the woods as difficult terrain, you could do 15 miles per day (still 4 days, but you won't have a boat should you decide to cross the lake instead of the Blackfens), and in fact you could go 'direct', which is about 100 miles instead of 130 were you to take the river first then walk... So 6.7 days, which I'll round up to 7 days because if you don't take a boat you have to cross the river somewhere (and I'll assume that takes .3 of a day to manage safely). So walking is in fact the best... cool!
So we all know it's: 7 days journey total, 3.5 days in the Witchwood followed by 3.5 days in the Blackfens.
From your conversation with the Lion of Brindol, you know the blockade is roughly at the part on the Rhest Trail where you see the road fork (just beyond the edge of the Witchwood). If you want to go directly there, it will be 80 miles from Drellen's Ferry, and so only take 5.5 days, all of that is through the Witchwood.
