Ever since Sly Flourish in his weekly DM Prep YouTube video mentioned and then started using Pointcrawls in his Eberron campaign I’ve been curious.

Being the lazy so and so I am. Instead of doing my own research on Pointcrawls, I decided to wait for Sly Flourish to write a blog post about them.

The waiting game paid off when Sly Flourish recently put up a YouTube video about Pointcrawls with links to articles that go into them in more depth.

I’ve embedded the video below.

So why am I interested in Pointcrawls?

Way back I wrote a post about travel and making them interesting.

Within our campaign we have land and sea travel.

For the land travel I have tried using The One Ring rules, or a version of. It went ok. For the sea travel I used a variation of the hex crawl rules from Tomb of Annihilation. Which also seemed fine.

But I’m constantly conscious of the players getting bored, not engage, or tired of the repetitive nature that these types of travel have.

Pointcrawls sound like from what Sly Flourish has said something I may find solves some of this. Obviously it will have its own drawbacks. Which I’m sure will become clear once I start reading the articles Sly links too.

And the one thing I can be sure of with current world events is I have time to look into this before our campaign resumes.