: Re: How to travel in a government restricted setting? So my fantasy story starts out with two characters travelling by foot through endless woods. They can't take the roads because of an oppressive

What are the roads like (maintained / protected by govt. troops? Paved?) What are the woods like - wild animals that most people try to avoid? Muddy / slow travel? Lots of reasons that woods would not be patrolled except for when hunting major fugitives. Also, even if woods are generally patrolled, how well? Maybe easy to avoid patrols? Average patroller is probably not happy to be traipsing thru the woods, would make noise, not be well trained, etc.

How badly are your characters wanted in the first 1/5 of book? That drives the answer to a lot of the above. A sentence or two of handwaving are all that are needed unless they have a huge bounty on their heads or something.

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