Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I run each Dungeon + Realm action as taking a season (so max 3 per year with Winter being the rest season).
Building things from huts to castles to entire cities is a good wy to use Downtime, especially if one of your PCs is an engineer who wants to play out repairing walls and hunting the goblins in the sewers (I use value/labour/skill = seasons to build eg a Sailing ship 10000gp assign 50 workers and roll skill 15 - 10000/50/15 = 13 seasons (4 years))
imc I’ve had PCs start as as survivors of a gnoll raid on their village, who then are tasked to gather the remaining survivors and get them to the old fort. They must then restore and defend the fort, establish a new settlement and begin their rise as leaders.
another time the PCs were settlers on a new island, except there was an indigenous population of gnomes who the PCs riled up after they tresspassed on the gnomes sacred mounds and also a swarm of insectile goblins in the deep valley who worshiped the Fly god. Due to lack of resources on the island the PCs had to travel to other islands for trade and thus made contact with an expanding cannibal empire who became a major threat in the setting.
Building things from huts to castles to entire cities is a good wy to use Downtime, especially if one of your PCs is an engineer who wants to play out repairing walls and hunting the goblins in the sewers (I use value/labour/skill = seasons to build eg a Sailing ship 10000gp assign 50 workers and roll skill 15 - 10000/50/15 = 13 seasons (4 years))
imc I’ve had PCs start as as survivors of a gnoll raid on their village, who then are tasked to gather the remaining survivors and get them to the old fort. They must then restore and defend the fort, establish a new settlement and begin their rise as leaders.
another time the PCs were settlers on a new island, except there was an indigenous population of gnomes who the PCs riled up after they tresspassed on the gnomes sacred mounds and also a swarm of insectile goblins in the deep valley who worshiped the Fly god. Due to lack of resources on the island the PCs had to travel to other islands for trade and thus made contact with an expanding cannibal empire who became a major threat in the setting.
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