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I think that, no matter the outcome, you are going to meet people so bad outcomes can lead to getting enemies (adventure seeds) and...

forming new NPC bonds at risks of forming new rivals. Downtime rules in XGtE

I think the answer is to make every negative lead to an adventure seed - if you get in to debt, its not financial - instead you owe a...

Is it too simple to just update the tables so that all “bad” results have a consolation prize? Like, “you’re in jail, but hey, now have...

Introduce: Just one card at a time. Go carousing and maybe get lucky enough to gain one of the cards in the deck that is scattered...

IIRC, they just allow for gaining contacts. I was going to expand to do contacts or information. Better rolls would be needed to get the...

Is the chance to get new allies, loot and new adventure leads not enough? what else are they going to do with all that gold?

Yeah, you're right. But there's also a chance they end up with a pretty bad result. The idea of at least getting some XP out of it as a...

Oh yeah! I forgot that the 2014 DMG and XGE had official 5E carousing and downtime rules. Time to take a dive and see what's the what.

Not familiar with Shadowdark or their Carousing tables, but plan on using the regular D&D Carousing downtimes for my own Urban Campaign...

I suppose the thing is I don't see any entertainment value in the system. I see the purpose to bleed resources. But I don't see any...

Well if it works for the table then great. But you are trying to get the non gamblers at the table to gamble. If that's the only...

Exactly. We flesh out the table results with improvising NPCs, scenarios and appropriate consequences. I don't need help with that. And...

With 8 rotating players in a free public game, I am absolutely looking for something that entertains without so much effort. 😁 We roll...

Carousing is something that in my opinion should just be roleplayed out or simply not done. For the DM it's adventuring in a controlled...