Hexploration and Exploration Activities

[Chris_Fougere]

We're excited to be moving to PF2 (have just run two sessions) and we're going to play Kingmaker because our group really enjoys both hexploration and empire building so it was a no brainer.

But I have a few questions about hexploration. I've got the gist of it down (thank goodness for the clarity of most of the PF2e rules) but...

Do Exploration Activities fit into the system in the gamemastery guide at all? I get that somethings will slow the party too much but things like Sense Direction, Cover Tracks, Track?

I see that the GM can allow them as an individual activity but if the party only has one 1 action due to speed that would mean they can't even sense direction and travel in the same day which seems weird.

[Guntermench]

It's not that hard to get 30-40ft of speed for everyone.

[Chris_Fougere]

Guntermench wrote:

It's not that hard to get 30-40ft of speed for everyone.

At some point yes but until we get there (our group just hit 2nd level) we have two characters at 20 feet, three at 25 feet and one at 35 feet. So while we're working with that we want to make sure that we're doing things as RAW as possible before we start fiddling with things.

The logical thing (it seems) would be to pick up horses for the slower folks but right now that's not an option.

[Lucrece]

Chris_Fougere wrote:

Guntermench wrote:

It's not that hard to get 30-40ft of speed for everyone.

At some point yes but until we get there (our group just hit 2nd level) we have two characters at 20 feet, three at 25 feet and one at 35 feet. So while we're working with that we want to make sure that we're doing things as RAW as possible before we start fiddling with things.

The logical thing (it seems) would be to pick up horses for the slower folks but right now that's not an option.

On Page 172 of the Gamemastery guide it states: " A group moving at a Speed of 10 feet or less is so slow it can’t even traverse an open hex in a single day; it takes such a group 2 days for each hexploration activity."

So it sounds like yes, they would only be able to take one Activity that day like Discern direction but then the next day they could Travel. So at the current level and speed it would just take them twice as long to get where they are going.

On the same page it also talks about Forced Marching if the PCs have decent Constitution modifiers. That could give them an extra Activity as well.