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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terraism" data-source="post: 2672653" data-attributes="member: 278">I actually had something very similar to that last night.  I'd let the players know beforehand that it was going to be a downtime session - they've just worked their way through the first story arc of the campaign, and it's also time to level up.  They're likely to be staying in the town they're in for some time now, so I gave them last night - their time.  Do whatever it was they wanted to do.  For one of them, it was find a trainer so he could start working towards the Blade Saint substitution levels for unfettered (we're using AE rules,) for another it was finding friendly giants to help him through the Shu-Rin ceremony.Just in case they didn't have anything in mind, though, I had a handful of different short plots worked out ahead of time, little things they could accomplish in an hour or two, tops, so that the session wasn't a lot of twiddling of thumbs.  Plus, by accomplishing any of them, they'd get to know people in town better, and goodwill from the local folk is never a bad thing.  One of the players - the unfettered, actually - went visiting the local blacksmith in order to requisition a masterwork rapier.  The blacksmith, as it turns out, is a bit melancholy at the present time, and refusing work.  My player's reaction?  "Bah!  Sidequest, and it's non-elite!  I want my phat loot!"  In any event, I was amused.   And he's not getting a masterwork rapier for a while.  (He did, however, get his first substitution level, so he's rather happy, regardless.)</blockquote>

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