[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

If you want to try and spot danger before it hits you, you'll generally have to move more slowly and stealthily.  Moving quickly is great for escaping danger, not so much for going unnoticed (unless you're a literal blur that can move too quickly to track easily, like Sonic).

When entering a new tile, you're almost always going to be subject to some kind of roll, and time will pass in some manner.  How you approach new tiles can affect those rolls.

- Normal Pace: If you don't approach the tile stealthily, then spotting danger will be harder.  If you don't set a different pace, I'll assume this is the one you're using.

- Slow Pace: A slower approach eases possible skill checks, but takes longer.  It may also allow you to ambush other pokemon if there are any present that you can see.

- Fast Pace: A quick approach makes possible checks harder, but does burn less time.  This also very decidedly unstealthy in most cases.

All pretty basic trpg travel rules, tbh.

Basic to you, but I'm not exactly familar with too many TTRPG mechanics outside of Pokerole and Pathfinder, and my knowledge in the former is a very faint thing by now indeed. So I'm appreciative you've laid out how travel works in Dungeons and in general very much so, mate!

Going by these rules, any form of scouting is essentially useless for our purposes in this case, as doing so triggers a Tile Encounter Roll no matter how fast anyone can do it and therefore will eat up time we don't really have. Bummer, but what can you do?

Pyra is in no real rush to get through the Mystery Dungeon herself, despite her grudge towards Team Gallop and the mission being at stake because of them, so I say she'll set a slow pace to the currently mysterious tile she'd head to, as she doesn't really want to jeapordize her companions anymore than she invariably has. If T.G. finds Stuffel first because of that and escapes the MD before the group can do anything about it, so be it. Pyra's companions safety and well being comes first and foremost to her, outside of their desires and completing their overaching quest to stop the Darkness.