What do your heroes do when they're not adventuring?

mmadsen · Apr 8, 2002

When discussing this idea earlier, Thorvald Kviksverd pointed out that Wizards have the most to gain from an "off season": researching, crafting magic items, etc.

Fighters, especially at higher levels, have fortresses to raise, troops to train, etc. (The Pendragon rules fit pretty well for them.) Rogues have lots of solo adventures to go on: spying, theiving, fencing goods, etc.

Maerdwyn pointed out that villains benefit more than our heroes:

A villain who escapes from the party can use the winter to lick his wounds, make plans for his revenge using their knowledge of the party, and acquiring magic items that can exploit the party's weaknesses. Villains based underground, underwater, or on another plane, where winter's effects are less severe, benefit from the winter phase by acting normally while the rest of the world slows down.

hong · Apr 8, 2002

Never forget ye the four seasons of the adventuring calendar, as laid out below.

Spring - Drink
Summer - Violence
Autumn - Looting
Winter - Sex

Hong "sounds a lot like college life, actually" Ooi

barsoomcore · Apr 8, 2002

I subscribe to the "time off means I'm not pounding the snot out of them enough" school of DMing. My players only have downtime when they're sailing from one place to another and I just happen to not feel like interrupting their journey with scaly monsters, pirates, ghost ships, visits from freaky NPCs who can teleport, or uncharted islands full of danger and thrills. Otherwise, they haven't had a day off since the whole thing began not quite a year ago in game time (two years in real time).

In Barsoom, once you're experienced and powerful enough to be sorta competent, the phone just never stops ringing -- and my heroes are getting pulled by more factions than they can count. It amuses me to no end.

And that why we have players, right? To amuse DMs? Right?

Sir Osis of Liver · Apr 8, 2002

When they're not adventureing? I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but i suspect my ansewer is, enjoying the after life.

hong · Apr 8, 2002

Sir Osis of Liver said:
When they're not adventureing? I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but i suspect my ansewer is, enjoying the after life.

Time is an illusion, downtime doubly so.

Nightfall · Apr 8, 2002

Well for my SL ideas, the off time is usually spent in a couple ways. 1. Helping the faithful by doing escort jobs, usually to various small shrines and holds if titanspawn are near.
2. Doing LOTS of forging (especially if one is a paladin, or a devout follower of Hedrada)
3. Probably trying to learn/create news spells AND possible research a true ritual for a ONCE in a lifetime opportunity at immortality of sorts.

mzsylver · Apr 8, 2002

hong said:
Never forget ye the four seasons of the adventuring calendar, as laid out below.

Spring - Drink
Summer - Violence
Autumn - Looting
Winter - Sex

Hong "sounds a lot like college life, actually" Ooi

gotta agree with you.

most of the guys in the home campaign i used to run did the following when not killing stuff: loot, pick up chicks, destroy things (libraries in particular), and drink.

the lone female usually horribly took advantage of poor inn keepers and robbed them blind.

hong · Apr 8, 2002

Curse you, "mzsylver", if that is your REAL NAME, you have destroyed my bigtext!

mzsylver said:
most of the guys in the home campaign i used to run did the following when not killing stuff: loot, pick up chicks, destroy things (libraries in particular), and drink.

the lone female usually horribly took advantage of poor inn keepers and robbed them blind.

What shall we do with a drunken fighter?
What shall we do with a drunken fighter?
What shall we do with a drunken fighter?
Deep down in the dungeon

Put 'im in a pit with an angry ogre
Put 'im in a pit with an angry ogre
Put 'im in a pit with an angry ogre
Deep down in the dungeon

(chorus)

Feed his magic sword to a hungry rust monster
Feed his magic sword to a hungry rust monster
Feed his magic sword to a hungry rust monster
Deep down in the dungeon

(chorus)

Send 'im on a blind date with a doppelganger
Send 'im on a blind date with a doppelganger
Send 'im on a blind date with a doppelganger
Deep down in the dungeon

(chorus)

Summon up a succubus to bless his wanger
Summon up a succubus to bless his wanger
Summon up a succubus to bless his wanger
Deep down in the dungeon

(chorus)

[this version dedicated to Regdar and friends]

Geoff Watson · Apr 8, 2002

hong said:
Curse you, "mzsylver", if that is your REAL NAME, you have destroyed my bigtext!

What shall we do with a drunken fighter?
What shall we do with a drunken fighter?
What shall we do with a drunken fighter?
Deep down in the dungeon

I remember the time you guys took the new PC to the moathouse (this was in RttToEE; they had cleared out the monsters by then.) to show him some of the stuff you found there, and got him to play about with dangerous magic while drunk.

Some of the drunken reactions were quite humorous.

Geoff.

hong · Apr 8, 2002

Geoff Watson said:
I remember the time you guys took the new PC to the moathouse (this was in RttToEE; they had cleared out the monsters by then.) to show him some of the stuff you found there, and got him to play about with dangerous magic while drunk.

Some of the drunken reactions were quite humorous.

Geoff.

Well, he was just a terminally immature player, wasn't he? I don't know why we let him join in the first place.

What do your heroes do when they're not adventuring?

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