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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6058446" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Its certainly doable.&nbsp; What I have done in these scenarios is use two techniques:- I ran long-term Exploration Skill Challenges (both dungeon and wilderness) as an overlay to standard 1e Dungeon Crawl Operational Play.&nbsp; That served as the &quot;Adventuring Day/Extra-Encounter&quot; functionality and tracked/dictated progression of the tier/level/area/time passing of the challenge at hand.&nbsp; They could get to the end of the tier/day (depending on the stakes...in Dragon Mountain it would be tier or micro-locale) or become hopelessly lost, face an encounter with overwhelming odds and be captured, etc (and face another long-term Skill Challenge to get &quot;unlost&quot; or &quot;escape capture&quot;).&nbsp; Micro-failures in the long term Skill Challenge interacted with the Condition Track (below) and provoked an Encounter;&nbsp; either (i) a combat, a (ii) trap/hazard issue that had to be dealt with or a (iii) short non-combat Skill Challenge (that would further interact with the Condition Track below).&nbsp; Those 3 would, of course, ablate resources as well.- I used Condition Track mechanics to handle the mechanical resolution of attrition.&nbsp; Failures in the above could mean entering the initial phase of the track which was typically &quot;1/2 lost Healing Surge (s) that cannot be recovered.&quot;&nbsp; Further failures would move on to &quot;No Extended Rests to get back Daily resources (including HSes)&quot;, and then the final stage of &quot;no Short Rests to get back Encounter resources and cannot spend Healing surges&quot;.&nbsp; Endurance/Heal DCs to improve/progress and Attack vs Fort to become afflicted relative to group level.&nbsp; It worked better thematically and mechanically and induced more tension and anxiety than in any D&amp;D iteration before it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6058446, member: 6696971"] Its certainly doable. What I have done in these scenarios is use two techniques: - I ran long-term Exploration Skill Challenges (both dungeon and wilderness) as an overlay to standard 1e Dungeon Crawl Operational Play. That served as the "Adventuring Day/Extra-Encounter" functionality and tracked/dictated progression of the tier/level/area/time passing of the challenge at hand. They could get to the end of the tier/day (depending on the stakes...in Dragon Mountain it would be tier or micro-locale) or become hopelessly lost, face an encounter with overwhelming odds and be captured, etc (and face another long-term Skill Challenge to get "unlost" or "escape capture"). Micro-failures in the long term Skill Challenge interacted with the Condition Track (below) and provoked an Encounter; either (i) a combat, a (ii) trap/hazard issue that had to be dealt with or a (iii) short non-combat Skill Challenge (that would further interact with the Condition Track below). Those 3 would, of course, ablate resources as well. - I used Condition Track mechanics to handle the mechanical resolution of attrition. Failures in the above could mean entering the initial phase of the track which was typically "1/2 lost Healing Surge (s) that cannot be recovered." Further failures would move on to "No Extended Rests to get back Daily resources (including HSes)", and then the final stage of "no Short Rests to get back Encounter resources and cannot spend Healing surges". Endurance/Heal DCs to improve/progress and Attack vs Fort to become afflicted relative to group level. It worked better thematically and mechanically and induced more tension and anxiety than in any D&D iteration before it. [/QUOTE]

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