@Blinkin: I promise you won't bore me. Anytime you feel like telling a tale, I'll be happy to listen.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I was in a party once which was pretty active, and the GM vanished for almost two weeks without notice while we were 'in the desert' without any landmarks to speak of to move towards or away from. So it was pretty linear. We just forged 'ahead' until the GM gave us things to react to.<br/><br/>After a while, the frustration of pounding sand was starting to get to the players as much as the characters. ;D Because we had no landmarks or events to discuss, so the conversation just started going around and around...</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Wow, not even the rising/setting sun to navigate by? That could have been handled in thirty seconds of DM exposition, not weeks of RL time. "The group presses on for several days through the desert with only miles of sandy dunes in every direction. After the first day, everyone is certain that they're lost. After three days, they think they've seen the same watering hole at least six times now. After seven days, you happen to find the thing I put you in the desert to find to advance the plot. Roll for initiative."