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Message: <blockquote data-quote="occam" data-source="post: 6451590" data-attributes="member: 39815">I'm coming around to this second interpretation, which makes the wording clear. The extra 3 days is meant as a disincentive, a punishment if you will, for skipping out on your downtime obligations. After all, if you're not putting the time in to get downtime benefits, then you're bypassing the primary cost of the downtime system. The rule is meant to handle unavoidable absences of a day or two, not a situation where you pay the money and then go off to adventure some more. At least, that's one way to look at it that makes sense.I think this would imply that if you wanted to just pay someone to build a stronghold for you, or buy an existing one, without putting in the time, you'd have to pay more for it. And those absentee/used prices should be somewhere else in the DMG, although I don't know if they will be.</blockquote>