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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7458607" data-attributes="member: 29398">"From a game mechanic perspective, things that happen between games don't count" is pretty clearly stating that what you do in your downtime doesn't matter to your progression as a character - progression that is mechanically measured and counted by a) xp and b) wealth.It shoudn't just "happen".  While I don't want to play this out long-form any more than you do, I'd certainly sit down with the player for 15 minutes, get some idea of what the player/PC has in mind, and get some dice rolled: - in general, how successful were you? (did you get all the wererats, or did they beat you back, or did you miss a bunch?  This roll will also give an idea of what xp to give, in relative terms) - in general, how much did it hurt? (a bad roll in this example probably means the PC picked up lycanthropy; a very bad roll might mean the PC died) - in general, how lucrative was this venture? (a bad roll might mean you lost money or items, a medium or good roll means you came back with some loot) - in general, how long did it take? (a really bad roll might indicate you haven't finished yet and have to choose between finishing this or field adventuring...or getting the party to help you finish)But they're not telling you what they do.  They're telling you what they're TRYING to do.  Small but very significant difference. <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=":)" />A PC says she's using her downtime to go off and kill Asmodeus?  Fine.  The same series of dice rolls apply as above, but unless you roll about seven 20's in a row on the "how successful were you" line you can start rolling up a new character, 'cause that one's had it.No.  Someone can say "on my off time I tried to defeat the Grozzle's army", at which point you and the player start rolling as above.  After that's done, you-as-DM get to assign the xp earned and treasure recovered.  Players NEVER do this on their own.Lanefan</blockquote>

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