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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7943515" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I rarely run dungeon crawls or heavy wilderness exploration games, my games tend to be very urban or at least highly interactive within a local region.  I try to mimic the feel of books like The Dresden Files where everything is going fine for a while and then everything goes sideways for a day or five.I regularly have down time between adventuring periods which are typically at least a couple of days but may be longer. During those adventuring periods we may have a day or more of investigation, travel or other activities.  I also use the alternate rest rules meaning a short rest is overnight while a long rest is several days, usually a week or more.  So the downtimes during adventuring periods will only normally be short rests.Then after that adventuring period, I let people know roughly how long it will be until the next adventuring period.  If they want to do anything particularly special they can write up a story (I reward inspiration points if they do) or email/chat with me about anything special.  We usually start the game after a "break" with RP and resolution of downtime activities.So for example in my last game session the party had some story related things due to a rival from a previous downtime period, someone else started a business, I had some interaction with various NPCs the group has been involved with and so on.  It was a lot of fun but did take up the first couple of hours of the session.It's going to depend a lot on the group, but we really enjoy having these downtime RP heavy sessions where non-combat skills and backgrounds get highlighted.</blockquote>

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