u/babyboytoydave

I recently got the books and I'm prepping for a campaign. My players are all new to an OSR/OSE-style hexcrawl- as am I, tbh! I see in the maps book that the river widths and some details about the strength and flow are given for each river, and I wonder how people tend to rule attempts to cross narrower rivers about 20-30 feet in width. Anything less than that I figure a Strength check is appropriate or they can simply walk across, anything over 30 feet I figure is uncrossable, but I'm curious how people are ruling the middle sizes. Also, I saw some older posts suggesting just placing fords along the waterways, so what do people think about this? How many would you place, would you apply some difficulty to the use of fords, and how wide of a river spam is realistic to for a ford to span? Thanks in advance!