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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bweenie" data-source="post: 1832978" data-attributes="member: 16886">My characters are exploring an abandoned monument.  It is trapped and warded, and all doors are Arcane Locked.  There are no creatures, but the adventure is time sensitive: they have four hours to loot it and find the artifact before the enemy shows up.  In the interest of my own sanity as DM, I keep track of time in ten minute increments.  I give rough estimates of each room search, gathering treasure, looking around, etc as taking ten minutes.  For example, theres a room with a fountain that Hastes when drunk from, so when they were fooling around, sticking sticks in, sipping, etc I just said it was ten minutes.  So my problem is that I don't know how to make the locked doors aspect of it interesting.  I don't feel like I should make it take more time, cuz that means that I would have to either say that it takes ten minutes to unlock a door, or else keep more fine details of time passage.  Since there isn't a monster or enemy on the other side of a door, there's no penalty for not kicking it open on the first try.  Also, there's no penalty for failing ("uh, you sprained your ankle," "uh, you broke your lock picks")Ideas...?</blockquote>