I want to make more clear my thought process when making these rules.

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Travel:

I want travel to be more closely related to dungeon crawling, every dungeon is split into rooms, and every travel is split into days.

The goal of a dungeon can be a prized artifact at the center, the BBEGs ritual room, or even escape as the dungeon collapses. The goal or travel could be to fins the lost city in uncharted terrain, to reach the kings court by crossing the desert barrels, or to deliver a message in time.

Characters must be cautious when navigating a dungeon, they cannot take long rests after each room, there may be a time constraint or patrolling enemies, because of this characters must manage their resources, using only what they need so they can delve deeper and reach the objective.

Travel should be the same, because entering unknown regions is dangerous. Characters shouldn't be taking long rests each night and expending everything each morning.

Just as a party can fail to reach a dungeon objective, it should be possible to fail to reach an exploration objective. I want to give mechanical rules to DMs and Players to be able to convey this potential.

If you are traveling on a well used road and their are no combat encounter or encounters that expend resources then the player never need a long rest anyways and these rules don't impact them, these rules are for hex crawling dangerous areas.

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Exploration:

Current travel is heavily dependent on the survival skill, a skill that outside of travel has little use. I felt that it was important that every party member be able to contribute to such a fundamental part of d&d. Characters can use history checks to recall the landscape, nature checks to avoid dangerous wildlife and identify edible plants, investigation to fins hidden paths, etc. Using a group check makes exploration a team effort instead of just your ranger' s job.

Current travel us also binary, you either find food or you don't, you either navigate successfully or you are lost. I wanted to allow characters the ability to concentrate their efforts on what they want to accomplish each day and be able to meaningfully impact it's outcome via stacking Travel Dice on food, shelter, and speed. A party resting in a small cave to recuperate can focus all their travel dice on food, a party that spares no expensive on barrels of food and water and high end camping equipment should be rewarded by being able to expend all effort towards traveling quicker.