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title: Astral Adventuring
description: Notes and rules for adventuring in the astral plane.
description: Notes and rules for playing (or running) adventures on the astral plane.
date_pub: 2023-02-19T15:10:00-05:00
section: astral
content_type: feature
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### Astral Travel Procedure
The steps to take for each phase of astral travel:
1. **Setup**: Referee describes the situation
2. **Decide Course**: Players decide on their course of travel for the phase and any planned activities for the day.
3. **Complication Check**: Referee makes a complication check.
4. **Description**: Referee describes the regions passed through, any points of interest that the party comes across, and any complications they encounter.
5. **Actions / Responses / Complications** - Party declares actions, referee describes the results.
6. **End of Phase**: The referee updates time records.
7. **Repeat**: Return to step 2 and repeat until travel ends.
#### Complication Check
Roll 1d6, ignoring results of 4+ for the first 2 checks.
1. **Encounter**: Wandering creature or vessel, social encounter, or some other random interaction.
2. **Signs / Portents**: Indications of possible encounter nearby - could be a clue, indications of a creature nearby, etc.
3. **Locality**: Some environmental or external event that affects the PCs - psychic storm, fragment, etc.
4. **Pilot / Ship Issue**: Pilot / power source exhaustion or some other ship complication, takes 1d6 shifts to resolve and resume travel (50% chance the ship will have to remain in dock for 1d6 phases to make additional repairs).
5. **Lose Direction**: Each phase spent moving in the wrong direction adds 1d4-1 additional phases of travel.
6. **No Complications**
**Distance**
- Astral encounters between ships usually start 1400 + (1d6 x 100) yards out (about a mile, the distance at which two ships will pull each other out of travel speed).
- Wandering creatures are encountered 4d6 × 10 yards away, and are usually not surprised by astral vessels.
- If either side is surprised (see [Encounter procedure](/rules/adventuring.html#encounter-procedure)), this is reduced to 1d4 × 10 yards.
**Location**: Astral encounters may occur either in the open astral plane or on land (such as a fragment, island, or dock), if the party lands or docks at some point during the day.
**Frequency of Check**
- In the deep astral, check once every other day (once every 6 phases, roll 1d6 to determine which phase).
- Near a [port](#portals) or [outpost](#outposts) (within 1-2 days travel), check once per day, or even once per phase (for busy outposts).
### Currents
Invisible flows of psychic energy that permeate and swirl around the astral plane.
- Creatures move up to 10x faster when moving with the current (or faster).
- Vessels designed to ride on these currents are called **astral cruisers**.
- They can use the currents to move at [travel speed](/astral/vessels#travel-speedl).
- They can use the currents to move at [travel speed](/astral/vessels.html#travel-speed).
### Distance and Measurement
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- -4 to attack rolls.
- Range is 1 mile.
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### Chases
#### Evading
Evasion chance is determined by difference between the movement rates of the two sides’, listed in the table below.
- **Success**: Pursuers lose track of fleeing side, can't catch up until next day (and only as a random encounter).
- **Failure**: Continue to **Pursuit**.
#### Pursuit
- Time passes in rounds.
- Pursuit begins at normal encounter distance.
- Pursuing side closes in on fleeing side
- Distance between sides decreases by the difference between their movement rates (minimum 30' per round).
#### Ship-Based Evasion
- Vessels use the same table, replacing feet with yards in the measurements speed.
<div class="dividedTableWrapper">
| Fleeing Side’s Movement Rate | Chance of Evasion |
| -------------------------------------- | ----------------- |
| Faster than pursuer | 80% |
| 0’–30’ per round slower than pursuer | 50% |
| 31’–60’ per round slower than pursuer | 40% |
| 61’–90’ per round slower than pursuer | 35% |
| 91’–120’ per round slower than pursuer | 25% |
| 121’+ per round slower than pursuer | 10% |
[Astralborne Evasion Chance]
</div>
-->
### Fragments
Pieces of other planes (usually floating) in the astral plane. The shape is typically determined by the plane of origin:
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- Those interested in trade will have one (or more) docks for passing ships.
- Outposts with [permanent portals](#portals) to other planes are called **ports**.
### Psychic Clouds
Thin streams of psychic "vapor", hundreds to thousands of miles across, which appear as clouds when viewed from distance.
- Psychic Storms are enormous storms of psychic energy which can disable a ship as well as its crew. Often found crawling with astral zombies. Best to avoid.
### Portals
Usually manifest as flat, shimmering discs of various colors that appear to float in place.
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- Temporary portals which lead from the astral to other planes are called **pools**.
- Permanent portals which lead from the astral to other planes are called **ports**, and are usually established on a island and attached to an [outpost](#outposts).
### Surprise
Wandering astral creatures are not usually surprised by traveling vessels. Special circumstances (ex: thick astral clouds, or a psychic storm) may alter this.
### Temperature
The ambient temperature in the astral plane tends towards the tepid side for most humans and demihumans, being roughly equivalent to a warm spring day in a temperate climate.
### Time
- Time is quickened: 3 rounds pass in the astral plane for each round that passes in a Material Plane.
- Time is quickened: 3 rounds pass in the astral plane for each round that passes in a material plane.
- Spells cast in the Astral plane appear to last 3 times as long as listed
- The effects of time don't happen while on the astral plane. This means that characters in the Astral Plane:
- The effects of time don't happen while on the astral plane. This means that characters in the astral plane:
- do not age,
- do not need to breathe,
- do not need to eat or drink (which also means that they can't expend a ration to heal), and
- only need to sleep for 30 phase-minutes each phase, although they still need to rest for an entire shift (8 phase-hours), and only gain 1 HP back after resting and sleeping.
### Travel
Travel by astral cruiser (via the [astral currents](#astral-currents)) to any known location within the astral plane usually takes 3-30 days.
- Travel between most ports under the control of the Astral Trade Union only takes 1d6+2 days.
- Without a ship, the vast distances between landmarks means one could go for weeks, months, or even years before coming across anyone (or anything) else.
- It takes 1 turn for a ship to dock, and 1 turn for it to disembark.
- An astral cruiser cannot travel by currents while within 1 mile of another active vessel or large astral body (like an island).
- If a cruiser comes within a mile of a large astral object while traveling. it will automatically reduce its speed to normal movement (in yards).
### Visibility
- An astral body (such as a [fragment](#fragments), island, or even a dead god) may be spotted at a distance of hundreds of miles (based on its size).
- Vessels (and large creatures) may be sighted at great distances by the contrails they leave behind in the psychic clouds that permeate the plane.
- Identification is usually limited to tactical range (approximately 1 mile) in the open astral plane, or as little as 100 yards in a psychic storm.