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DM Question: How can I keep my players from taking 3 days to check a room?
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<blockquote data-quote="Macbrea" data-source="post: 219685" data-attributes="member: 1517"><p>Ah, you have a huge 100 foot by 100 ft room and they want to search it taking 20 per square. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Lets really take a look at this.</p><p></p><p>20 x 20 = 400 squares</p><p></p><p>400 squares x 2 minutes = 800 minutes</p><p></p><p>800 minutes / 60 = 13 hours 20 minutes to search taking 20</p><p></p><p>Ah. so, my faithful dust inspecting rogue has now been searching every square of the room for 13 hours 20 minutes. </p><p></p><p>Lets see how to abuse this fine fellow after a few hours.</p><p></p><p>House rule: (or basic use of the endurance feat)</p><p></p><p>As a gamemaster you could say that searching is mentally exhaustive after 1 hours time. Requiring a Con check DC 10 +1 cumlative per hour. Or take 1d6 subdual. This would follow the general rules for force marching and any other action done over a period of time. </p><p></p><p></p><p>My guess is they could searchg for the whole period, but its going to cost them resources and a wasted day. Any searching over 8 hours should also result in the "Force march" rules as the individual is still moving.....albiet very slowly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Macbrea, post: 219685, member: 1517"] Ah, you have a huge 100 foot by 100 ft room and they want to search it taking 20 per square. Lets really take a look at this. 20 x 20 = 400 squares 400 squares x 2 minutes = 800 minutes 800 minutes / 60 = 13 hours 20 minutes to search taking 20 Ah. so, my faithful dust inspecting rogue has now been searching every square of the room for 13 hours 20 minutes. Lets see how to abuse this fine fellow after a few hours. House rule: (or basic use of the endurance feat) As a gamemaster you could say that searching is mentally exhaustive after 1 hours time. Requiring a Con check DC 10 +1 cumlative per hour. Or take 1d6 subdual. This would follow the general rules for force marching and any other action done over a period of time. My guess is they could searchg for the whole period, but its going to cost them resources and a wasted day. Any searching over 8 hours should also result in the "Force march" rules as the individual is still moving.....albiet very slowly. [/QUOTE]
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