by Bbernard
I have studied the rules thoroughly and agree it is an ambiguity. It could go either way. I have decided to make it a House Rule that if you don't begin the Artifact Adventure then you do roll a die. My thinking is that the territories are huge, often thousands of square miles, and there is plenty of space for an encounter to occur away fom the Artifact site. Your Hero is an Adventurer after all, and presumably he or she is looking for adventure, or adventure is looking or them. There may be reasons why a Hero would not want to start an adventure (just passing though while en route to a city, waiting for a partner to arrive, etc.), but I don't think the intent is to provide a "safe harbor" so in effect you can "hide out" at an Artifact site without having to roll and risk getting in a fight.↧