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| Zoe likes them, your cat may too! |
The Overland Travel cards are exactly what they sound like. Draw a card when you want something random to happen out in the wilderness. There's a bit more to it than that, though. Each card has a daytime and a nighttime event, as well as a random number of hours, a random thought, and a bunch of icons that I'm not quite sure what they mean (looks like random sex/gender, race, monster, and attitude). This makes a draw of the deck more useful that just to pull a random wilderness event.
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| Two test draws that seemed interesting to me. |
The cards have a large variety of event types, from general feelings of being watched to encounters with greedy tax collectors. There's a few that I'd probably redraw, like the peaceful invasion of a migrating butterfly swarm, but that's more just my personal tastes than anything about the cards themselves.
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| Zoe got possessive of the cards while I was sleeving them, so a word of warning: Your cat might *really* like them. |
Overall, I'm very happy with them and can't wait to put them to actual use. I do wish they were more like the Dungeon Maker cards by the same creator. With the Dungeon Maker cards*, each draw is actually a draw of 4 cards - each card determines where the dungeon is, who built it, why it's there, and what happened to its last inhabitants. I like this format a lot better, but that says more about how great the Dungeon Maker cards are (which I should probably do a review of too).
The Overland Travel cards don't appear to be available yet on RPGNow/DriveThruCards, but I'd expect them to be available soon once backers have had a chance to get their rewards.
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