{"id":237,"date":"2023-03-21T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:21","slug":"patrolling-twilight-2000-4th-edition-house-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Patrolling (Twilight: 2000 4th Edition House Rule)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With my Kaserne on the Borderlands<\/a> campaign revolving around a village, one item that’s been on my players’ minds is the need for their characters to maintain awareness of their surroundings. A hex is something like 60 or 70 square kilometers, so exploring and mapping it doesn’t necessarily reveal everything <\/em>it contains. Nor does this keep eyes on it after the initial pass. This is a bit of a gap in the core book’s rules, so we sat down at the virtual table to homebrew a downtime action. This also enables players who aren’t regularly able to make sessions to contribute outside “I brew fuel… again.” Here’s what we came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrolling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Designate the hex that you’re patrolling (which may require travel time to reach). Roll Recon (additional recon team members may assist if they have Recon D or higher), modified as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  • Scout<\/em> specialty present in the group: +1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Open terrain: +1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Woods or mountains terrain: -1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Ruins terrain: -3<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Dark: -1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Light precipitation: -1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Heavy precipitation: -2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cumulative per person in the patrol above three: -1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The patrol finds one item of interest per success. These may be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    • landmarks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • exploitable resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • hazards<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • active threats<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • intel\/clues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • salvage items<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • plot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      On double 1s, something unpleasant (but not lethal) befalls the patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      (It’s not as rigorously-programmed as the core rules’ actions, but it has worked for us so far. I try to get a general sense of what each PC is looking to get out of their patrol and provide appropriate results so the player feels like the time was well spent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      With my Kaserne on the Borderlands campaign revolving around a village, one item that’s been on my players’ minds is the need for their characters to maintain awareness of their surroundings. A hex is something like 60 or 70 square kilometers, so exploring and mapping it doesn’t necessarily reveal everything it contains. Nor does this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,112],"tags":[12,6],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaserne-on-the-borderlands","category-mechanics","tag-t2k","tag-t2k-4e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}