how much free time does your party have between adventures?

[demon_jr]

within my campaign, our group rarely has time to focus on time consuming tasks (non-role-playing) between adventures.

usually, after one adventure is finished, within a week (game time) at most, another opportunity for adventure has arised. the DM has stated many times that our party does not have to investigate or partake of every adventure hook presented, but of course, what adventuring party would ever do a silly thing like that?



one of the results of never having enough "down time" is the inability to create magical items. i can only speak for our campaign, but other than creating "1-day" items like 1st-level wands, the opportunities to create more powerful magical items is almost nonexistant.

partly, this is because the DM doesn't want the party to sit around for months (game time) at a time and stock up on magical items. mostly, i think the DM has so many things planned for his campaign, that there is never enough "down time"

the most "down time" we ever had was somewhere between 2 weeks and month, within the game. other than that, we usually enter into one adventure after another.

how often does this occur in your campaign?

 

[Oni]

This is one of my pet peeves, DM's trying to stuff too much into too little time.

You all can do the same amount of adventures and whatnot doesn't matter how much downtime there is, it's not like you have to play out every second of it.


Solution number one, is simply as a party don't do anything for however much time you want to spend you fortunes and do whatever it is you need to do. Somebodies kidnapped the princess, well let someone else handle it you have other things to do.

If this doesn't work repeatedly and the DM insist on bringing the adventure to you everytime whether you like it or not, then its time to talk to him and explain that very much desire to be able to have downtime on occasion. Collapse time too much and it just destroys verisimilitude.

 

[Rifter]

Our group has been adventuring about 2 years now, and we have had maybe a week or two of real downtime. There has been a few days that we have traveled through safe territory, but that is about all...

We actually had a good bout of downtime recently, where we were travelling by boat. And only had 2 encounters...