Level Up (A5E) Level Up's Downtime activities

We have a lot of downtime activities available in the advanced edition of 5E. Crafting, information gathering, recovery, religious devotion, research, spell craft, training, and work. Here's a look at a couple of pages in this chapter.

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[BookTenTiger]

This is adjacent to the post, but I've been having a bunch of fun creating custom downtime activities for my group. So far two popular custom downtime activities have been "animal training" (for giant riding pigs) and "revolution."

 

[Stalker0]

I really like how you have basically created old school "metamagic" using downtime spell research. I can adjust a spell here, tweak a spell there.

Also a nice gold sink....though I will say the regular Research costs seem a little pricey. 100 gp to do some difficult research.... what do I keep forgetting to pay my late fees?

 

[Faolyn]

Also a nice gold sink....though I will say the regular Research costs seem a little pricey. 100 gp to do some difficult research.... what do I keep forgetting to pay my late fees?

Some of that, of course, is "fees" and other bribes so that the librarians will allow a grubby adventurer into the stacks.

 

[The Old Crow]

Is there an equivalent to spellcraft for combat maneuvers? Find a weapon master, cue training montage, and get some upgraded combat tricks?

 

[tetrasodium]

that spellcraft thing is awesome love the way it encourages casters growing with interesting effects added to their spells :

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Yeah this is really good inspiring stuff.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Spellcraft feels like a good opportunity for players to come up with clever hacks of existing spells. Not sure if they will break spells or not though - guess it depends onthe player and the GM

 

[sevenbastard]

I am always amazed at how heroicaly self disciplined my players think there characters are.

The party will travel on iron rations through the snow for a week, Get knocked down to zero hit points everywhere day, and witness two dear friends die. But they have to wait in a town two days for a ship and instead of relaxing they will spend every available hour focused on learning a new skill our language.

In real life one of them has to work at their desk two extra hours and they are too wiped out but do anything but re binge some Netflix show and drink beer.

I guess that's why it's a fantasy game.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I am always amazed at how heroicaly self disciplined my players think there characters are.

The party will travel on iron rations through the snow for a week, Get knocked down to zero hit points everywhere day, and witness two dear friends die. But they have to wait in a town two days for a ship and instead of relaxing they will spend every available hour focused on learning a new skill our language.

In real life one of them has to work at their desk two extra hours and they are too wiped out but do anything but re binge some Netflix show and drink beer.

I guess that's why it's a fantasy game.

Oh yeah. It's like sleeping rough in armour - it's not actually impossible to do (and I don't think that it should cause penalties, at least not if you do it sparingly) but no one would be happy doing it.

Very few players tend to consider their character's personal comfort, unless they are playing a vain stereotype.