Paces and Speeds

The three paces

Travel Pace uses the system’s Fast, Normal, and Slow travel paces. Each pace’s daily distance and speed multiplier come from the system’s configuration.

How speed is worked out

Traveller	Speed
On foot	The pace’s standard daily distance, spread across a travel day.
Creature	The on-foot speed, scaled by its walking speed against a 30 ft baseline.
Vehicle, party	Its travel speed per hour, scaled by the pace’s multiplier.

Active modifiers such as weather then multiply that speed. See Mounts and Vehicles for which speed each actor uses.

Units

Travel Pace has no unit setting. Inputs, results, and speeds follow the system’s imperial or metric setting, and actor speeds are converted to match.

Travel days

A day in a result or in the Days input is one travel day: the number of hours the system sets for a day of travel, not a full calendar day. Hour and minute lengths follow the world calendar.

Pace effects

With Show Pace Effects in Chat on, the chat card includes the selected pace’s rules text:

Pace	Effect
Fast	Imposes disadvantage on Perception or Survival, and Stealth checks.
Normal	Imposes disadvantage on Stealth checks.
Slow	Grants advantage on Perception or Survival checks.