D&D 5E DMG excerpt: Carousing!

[Mirtek]

it just takes longer to complete.

Like forever? One day progress in absence and 3 days added to completion time.

 

[Zaran]

We need to remember that they had the least amount of time with the DMG. It will make the least sense of the books.

 

[TreChriron]

They should take the time to make the DMG make sense. Period. Much better to get it right the first time.

 

[Beleriphon]

This is just one of the times I am being pedantic. Back in math and algorithm classes we were tasked with writing an algorithm for making a PB&J sandwich for an alien that we could only communicate with through the algorithm. The alien had never seen a PB&J sandwich before but had all the tools and ingredients necessary. The prof then went through a few of the submissions followed the instructions literally. Several of the attempts ended up looking nothing like a PB&J sandwich.


It continuously adds time to the point of never finishing.

Isn't the whole point that if you take a day off of supervision the work then takes an extra three days (so a total of four). So what work you could get done in one week with PC supervision actually takes twenty-eight days. So the workers are three hundred percent slower without the characters there.... hmmm.... I guess they're like that guy from Seinfeld that couldn't decide on Jerry's cabinets and kept having to asking questions about every little thing.

That's actually not that bad all things considered, since it means a building that takes 1200 days to complete becomes 4800 days or around 13 years.

 

[guachi]

As written, the project could never be completed as long as you weren't there.

Other oddities - you supervise 59 of 60 days constructing a trading post. You leave for three weeks. When you come back your trading post now has 64 days until completion. You'd be better off starting a new trading post from scratch.

 

[SilverfireSage]

It continuously adds time to the point of never finishing.

Clearly this is one of those times when they thought that simple common sense would rule over an overly explained rule. Although they could have added "original" into that sentence and made it perfectly clear with only one extra word.

 

[Mirtek]

Isn't the whole point that if you take a day off of supervision the work then takes an extra three days (so a total of four). So what work you could get done in one week with PC supervision actually takes twenty-eight days.

Actually it will take forever until the PC comes back.

Work scheduled to take 7 days and starts tomorrow.

If the PC is there one day of work gets completed and it now only takes 6 more days with supervision until completion.

However if the PC is not there one day of work also gets completed but since three days are added it now takes 9 more days until completion

If the PC is also absent the next day then another day gets completed but another three more are added and it now takes 11 days until completion.

If the PC is still not back the day after that then another day gets completed and yet another 3 days are added and it now takes 13 more days for the work to be completed.

As long as the PC doesn't come back to supervise, the work will never be completed but rahter the time it still takes will grow toward infinity.

So the workers are three hundred percent slower without the characters there.

Actually they seem to be working backward without the characters there. Maybe they're raising a mount instead of excavating the basement

 

[SilverfireSage]

As written, the project could never be completed as long as you weren't there.

Other oddities - you supervise 59 of 60 days constructing a trading post. You leave for three weeks. When you come back your trading post now has 64 days until completion. You'd be better off starting a new trading post from scratch.

As others have said, this is clearly not what they intended. It adds three days to the original time, not to the days that have been added since. I'm starting to think some people enjoy being overly pedantic!

 

[Mirtek]

As others have said, this is clearly not what they intended. It adds three days to the original time, not to the days that have been added since. I'm starting to think some people enjoy being overly pedantic!

That still means that work can never be completed unless the PC is there. It would still eternally freeze at the orginal time until the PC comes back and they start from scratch

 

[guachi]

The suggestion to have the workers work at 1/3 speed makes sense. If there are 10 days remaining it will take 30 days to complete if the player never comes back. If there are 10 days remaining and the player leaves for 6 then there are 8 days (10 - 6/3) remaining. For easy math, you could just say they work at 1/2 speed.