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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8623607" data-attributes="member: 29398">I thought the whole point of becoming an independent adventurer or group is that you could set your own agenda rather than have to jump to someone else's orders and schedules. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yeah, this is often how I present adventures: "There's this thing needs doing, but it's needed doing for a while so if you've anything else on your plate, it can probably wait."  Sometimes there'll be a very soft deadline, as in "It's Fall Equinox today,  Those Orc raiders and bandits really hit us hard this summer.  They don't raid in the winter, so can ya get up into the hills and do something about them before next summer?"Except I'll present three or four such options, all different, and see what catches their interest.  They know full well that they're not the only adventurers in the world, so if they don't pick up on a particular mission odds are someone else will at some point. (and once in a while I'll run something where the PCs and another adventuring group are each trying to do the same mission without realizing it, but those can get messy!)Sure, once in a while these can be great.  But all the time?  Bleah!That, and PC downtime is important to me as a player in that it's my opportunity to interact with the setting in a non-adventuring way, be it a stronghold or family or business or politics or whatever.  If we're always on a clock there's much less opportunity for downtime.As a DM I try to allow them to take downtime, maybe not quite whenever they want but certainly fairly often.  Thay they rarely if ever do isn't my fault. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Hell, sometimes I'd just love it if a party decided to, say, just take the winter off and resume adventuring in the spring, but no such luck; and as a result most of the parties in my 14-year-old campaign have yet to get through 5 years of in-game time.</blockquote>

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