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"Nobody actually uses the rules for traveling, man. They fucking suck."
They were absolutely right. They do suck.
System dependant, surely.
Not only system, but also how you are using the system.
Some games are built around resource management. Travel rules solidify the way in which travel saps resources (like supplies and time) and force choices (every day we delay people die but if we press on through the night we will get there tired and hungry or might run into something dangerous in the dark) while also (with random encounters) showing that the world exists beyond the confines of the plot.
Some games are far more “epic hero”, the protagonists are the centre of the world and what they aren’t involved with doesn’t really matter.
It’s a good idea for a GM to know what type of game they are running and for a system designer to know what they are trying to design.
If travel rules suck then there’s a good chance that the GM picked a system that isn’t a good fit for the game they want to run or the system designer shoved travel rules in because they thought the game should have them just because it is an RPG.
Obviously, there aren’t absolutes and some games work perfectly fine if you jettison their resource management aspects as a house rule. I think it is useful to try to understand why rules exist before changing them though.
Yeah, it is probably important in WH40K more than D&D. At least from what I have seen of the game when I would go to the local game shop.