Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
(WIP) Secrets of Old Pandora, Drafting my vision for a Pathfinder 2e West Marches
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 8223898" data-attributes="member: 6801252"><p>Yeah downtime is a little on the difficult side because its potentially infinite even in a normal campaign if you don't either hard frame the characters choosing to get back to adventuring, throw them time sensitive hooks and inciting incidents, or have a party that self-regulates (which can feel at odds with a game where the players try their hardest.) </p><p></p><p>In the context of this game the real issue is that since tracking an actual date would be painful with adventure pacing and different groups doing things, so there needs to be something to set the amount of downtime you have to work with, it has to be somehow limited, which is why I'm thinking of just giving them out as a baseline reward per session spent playing-- so even if a voyage is a bust treasure wise, you at least get downtime as a consolation. Its funny because while I had the idea in mind of players paying for training to level, it didn't occur to me that it would also take downtime days for them to actually experience the training, I have to see how the costs and the downtime actually shake out.</p><p></p><p>I love the downtime rules in the system itself, the only real modification I've made in more traditional campaigns was to use lifestyle as a measure of what resources you put into longer term intangible goals. For instance, a character who becomes the leader of an organization will do better or worse at the management of that organization based off how extravagant their lifestyle cost is, and this was of course separate from the actual tasks like retraining and earning income. It was a nice rules-lite addition to support things like kingdom management, army gathering and such that took place in that campaign during certain long downtime sections.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The-Magic-Sword, post: 8223898, member: 6801252"] Yeah downtime is a little on the difficult side because its potentially infinite even in a normal campaign if you don't either hard frame the characters choosing to get back to adventuring, throw them time sensitive hooks and inciting incidents, or have a party that self-regulates (which can feel at odds with a game where the players try their hardest.) In the context of this game the real issue is that since tracking an actual date would be painful with adventure pacing and different groups doing things, so there needs to be something to set the amount of downtime you have to work with, it has to be somehow limited, which is why I'm thinking of just giving them out as a baseline reward per session spent playing-- so even if a voyage is a bust treasure wise, you at least get downtime as a consolation. Its funny because while I had the idea in mind of players paying for training to level, it didn't occur to me that it would also take downtime days for them to actually experience the training, I have to see how the costs and the downtime actually shake out. I love the downtime rules in the system itself, the only real modification I've made in more traditional campaigns was to use lifestyle as a measure of what resources you put into longer term intangible goals. For instance, a character who becomes the leader of an organization will do better or worse at the management of that organization based off how extravagant their lifestyle cost is, and this was of course separate from the actual tasks like retraining and earning income. It was a nice rules-lite addition to support things like kingdom management, army gathering and such that took place in that campaign during certain long downtime sections. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
(WIP) Secrets of Old Pandora, Drafting my vision for a Pathfinder 2e West Marches
Top