Wilderness Exploration Cycle

The Warden describes the current point or region on the map and how the path, weather, terrain, or party status might affect travel speed. The party plots or adjusts a given course towards their destination.
Each character chooses a single Wilderness Action (pg. 79). The Warden narrates the results and then rolls on the Wilderness Events table. The party responds to the results.
The players and the Warden record any loss of resources and new conditions (i.e. torch use, deprivation, etc), and the cycle repeats.

Highlighted line is the event rolled
#	Wilderness Events
1	Encounter	Roll on an encounter table for that terrain type or location. Don’t forget to roll for NPC reactions if applicable.
2	Sign	The party discovers a clue, spoor, or indication of a nearby encounter, locality, hidden feature, or information about a nearby area.
3	Environment	A shift in weather or terrain.
4	Loss	The party is faced with a choice that costs them a resource (rations, tools, etc), time, or effort.
5	Exhaustion	The party encounters a barrier, forcing effort, care or delays. This might mean spending extra time (and an additional Wilderness Action) or adding Fatigue to the PC’s inventory to represent their difficulties.
6	Discovery	The party finds food, treasure, or other useful resources. The Warden can instead choose to reveal the primary feature of the area.

Wilderness Actions

Travel begins. Obvious locations, features, and terrain of nearby areas are revealed according to their distance. This action is typically taken by the entire party as one.
The party rolls 1d6 to see if they get lost along the way. This risk can increase or decrease, depending on Path Difficulty (pg. 75), maps, party skills, and guides.
If lost, the party may need to spend a Wilderness Action to recover their way. Otherwise, the party reaches the next point along their route.

Remember to compare the results of getting lost to the relevant Path Difficulty.

One or more party members search a large area, searching for hidden features, scouting ahead, or treading carefully.
A Location (shelter, village, cave, etc.) or Feature (geyser, underground river, beached ship, etc.) is discovered.
The Travel action is still required to leave the current area, even if it has been completely explored.

One or more party members may hunt, fish, or forage for food, collecting 1d4 Rations (3 uses each). The chance of a greater bounty increases with each additional participant (e.g. 1d4 becomes 1d6, up to a maximum of 1d12). Relevant experience or equipment may also increase the bounty.
The party may encounter homes and small villages, spending gold and a full Watch (pg. 74) to resupply.

The party stops to set up camp in the wilds. Each party member (and their mounts) consumes a Ration.
A lookout rotation is set so that the party can sleep unmolested. A smaller party may need to risk sleeping unguarded or switch off sleeping over multiple days.
Party members that were able to rest remove all Fatigue from their inventory.