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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8005268" data-attributes="member: 20323">While I really like the neat distinction between exploration (minutes of breath) and combat (rounds of breath), my games tend to see blurring between those boundaries. For example, one or two PCs go dive down underwater to check out a sunken ship, then while they're exploring they run into a crocodile, there's a brief fight, then they go back to exploring. How would it work at the table? They take time to prep themselves for a deep dive – breathing, getting still, other free diving tricks – then dive under with minutes to spare. Until they meet the crocodile, then what, they're suddenly down to mere rounds from the shock of it swimming past them and exertion of swimming? What if they want/need to stay underwater after dispatching the crocodile? Would they return back to the minutes timeline (and if so how would that work?), or would the encounter with the croc have effectively drastically reduced their overall "time meter" for exploring underwater on one held breath?</blockquote>