Imoen and my protagonist can spend nearly a week on the 1st map alone.
-Finding Gorion, burying him, mourning.
-Searching the area for clues as to who has done this evil thing.
-Running into battles with strange little gibberling creatures, bears and wolves that she is ill equipped to fight.
-Weighing the wisdom of accepting help from two very strange men that they meet on the road.
-If she is a mage type, just finding shelter and building a fire for the night in order to rest and heal wounds is an ordeal. (Really should have paid more attention when Gorion was teaching her about fire spells…)
-Possibly heading back to Candlekeep to try and find assistance there. Surely they would not turn her away, she spent most of her life there. Alas no…
-Only then finally moving on to brave the road to this Friendly Arms place that she was told about.
The distance between locations are so much more than 1 or two days away. Walking to a destination on foot depending on its distance would take 4 days, 5 days, or a maybe a week, or should I say a tenday (which is literally ten days). For example, in BG2 SoA, Trademeet is much further away from Athkatla than the in game map depicts. On the official map, Trademeet is not several miles east from Athkatla, it is actually south from Athkatla, on the other side of the Small Teeth mountains close to the Forest of Tethir. And in the official Baldur's Gate novel (I know nobody wants to hear about it, but I've read that trash for reference), it took Abdel, Montaron and Xzar 5 days to reach the Friendly Arm Inn.
Even in Siege of Dragonspear, the distance between locations is so great, you can't even backtrack to a location hundreds of miles from the area you are in, for example, you can't go back to Bridgefort once you reach the campsite where the Waterdeep and Daggerford military are, which means SoD most likely ends sometime in the year 1369 DR, which explains why BG2 SoA starts in the 5th month of that year. So, from my perspective, there is no way Throne of Bhaal takes place in 1369 DR, most likely 1370 or 1371 DR, because SoA has so many side missions to do, and to walk from one location to another on foot would take a lot more than 1 or 2 days. Finishing every side mission in SoD and SoA is enough to put the main character and his/her companions on levels high enough to be challenging opponents to The Five. By ToB, Nalia and Aerie become powerful enough to be considered archmages, through companion banters, Dorn acknowledges that to Aerie but criticizes her compassionate morals, and Edwin is apparently jealous of her power as a mage.
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-Finding Gorion, burying him, mourning.
-Searching the area for clues as to who has done this evil thing.
-Running into battles with strange little gibberling creatures, bears and wolves that she is ill equipped to fight.
-Weighing the wisdom of accepting help from two very strange men that they meet on the road.
-If she is a mage type, just finding shelter and building a fire for the night in order to rest and heal wounds is an ordeal. (Really should have paid more attention when Gorion was teaching her about fire spells…)
-Possibly heading back to Candlekeep to try and find assistance there. Surely they would not turn her away, she spent most of her life there. Alas no…
-Only then finally moving on to brave the road to this Friendly Arms place that she was told about.
Even in Siege of Dragonspear, the distance between locations is so great, you can't even backtrack to a location hundreds of miles from the area you are in, for example, you can't go back to Bridgefort once you reach the campsite where the Waterdeep and Daggerford military are, which means SoD most likely ends sometime in the year 1369 DR, which explains why BG2 SoA starts in the 5th month of that year. So, from my perspective, there is no way Throne of Bhaal takes place in 1369 DR, most likely 1370 or 1371 DR, because SoA has so many side missions to do, and to walk from one location to another on foot would take a lot more than 1 or 2 days. Finishing every side mission in SoD and SoA is enough to put the main character and his/her companions on levels high enough to be challenging opponents to The Five. By ToB, Nalia and Aerie become powerful enough to be considered archmages, through companion banters, Dorn acknowledges that to Aerie but criticizes her compassionate morals, and Edwin is apparently jealous of her power as a mage.