[HoE] Ritter's Patrol Radius

[Ralph Dula <rdula@ezonline.com>]

Steve Crow wrote:
>But..."Something... " has Ritter patrolling an area.  He seems to have no 
>mode of transport, so he presumably has a patrol radius of (and let's be 
>generous here) (16 miles travel a day) x (7 days from his base of operations 
>to Point X, X being the furthest point out).
>[I'd contend that anything further than that and he almost certainly won't 
>get there to be of a great deal of benefit).
>
>So we've got a circle 224 miles in diameter with Ritter starting at the 
>center.  Exactly how many communities are _in_ this area to make this kind 
>of "Templar working out of a fixed base" idea viable?
>
>The adventure seems to imply there are a fair amount of communities in this 
>area.

Or maybe Ritter saw his sacred mission as patrolling the range, protecting
groundhounds and chipmunks against marauding tumblebleeds in addition to
guarding the citizens of Jarret.

-Ralph 

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