I needed a quick travel way of determining how far a party would be able to travel around the Sword Coast area. The internet and the sources I have available is pretty vague on the actual distances, and different maps give different measures. I’ve based the following distances on the Sword Coast map from 4E. Night’s End is a village of my own design that lies a couple of days east of Luskan along the River Mirar. The following tables is in kilometers:
Walking Distance in km
Luskan | Port Llast | Neverwinter | Night’s End | Leilon | Waterdeep | Mirabar | |
Luskan | 0 | 112 | 190 | 96 | 334 | 654 | 380 |
Port Llast | 112 | 0 | 80 | 208 | 224 | 544 | 492 |
Neverwinter | 190 | 80 | 0 | 286 | 144 | 464 | 570 |
Night’s End | 96 | 208 | 286 | 0 | 430 | 750 | 284 |
Leilon | 334 | 224 | 144 | 430 | 0 | 320 | 714 |
Waterdeep | 654 | 544 | 478 | 844 | 320 | 0 | 1034 |
Mirabar | 380 | 492 | 570 | 284 | 714 | 1034 | 0 |
The typical walking speed per day if lightly encumbered is around 5 km/hour. With a few breaks that ends up around 30km / day. It can be pushed up to 40 km / day but with with the risk of injury or fatigue. A cautious party would travel half the normal speed at 15 km / day. The quick table below shows time between locations when moving at 30 km / day:
Walking distance in Days
Luskan | Port Llast | Neverwinter | Night’s End | Leion | Waterdeep | Mirabar | |
Luskan | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 13 |
Port Llast | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 16 |
Neverwinter | 6 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 19 |
Night’s End | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 25 | 9 |
Leilon | 11 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 24 |
Waterdeep | 22 | 18 | 16 | 28 | 11 | 0 | 34 |
Mirabar | 13 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 24 | 34 | 0 |
The numbers are rounded down and is a little bit on the positive side as it does not take elevation, weather, encounters, or road conditions into consideration. I would be assuming that the adventurers would be on the road 6-7 hours, have a lunch break, setup camp and have time to do a little foraging/hunting if environment allows it.
Excellent resource – thank you for producing this.
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