As a player, I have a soft preference to head North, start checking put the mountains and swamps - partly because Swamp druid<em>might</em>give us a benefit to finding neat stuff and/or explore swamps faster, but mostly because mountains are a good place to find ore seams and swamps are a good source of herbs, organics and water - not to mention those regions often have the best ruins to raid.<br/><br/>That's a soft preference though, and<em>Shara</em>will do as directed.<br/><br/>Do we want to risk splitting the party on exploration when the potential threat is "people?" I'm ambivalent - it could be risky, but we could send the Ithika and Shara out to stealth a hex and keep the brute force of Khaldrash, Milena and Davriel together to check out another - in the areas closest to town that might be a reasonable risk and let us get an edge on exploration.<br/><br/>Risk vs. Reward worth?