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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7458787">Okay, bolded the two lines that I'm trying to get at.You don't want to play the "downtime minigame" okay, but because you don't want to play the downtime minigame, players are limited in how impactful their downtime can be.  (lets keep this in the realm of fighting gangs and not Asmodeus)  This is, as far as I can tell, a personal evaluation on your part as the DM as to how "impactful" their actions are, and if that can take place off-screen.  Is there a way that you communicate this to your players beforehand, that players have an idea what sort of "downtime" they can freely write up?Anything I ask my players to do within the game is "playing".  That's why I play out downtime with them, much the way Lanefan describes above.  A few simple rolls to determine the degree of success or failure.  If a player wants to write this up in detail and bring it to me next time, that's fine, because we've already determined how successful it was, how much reward it generated, and how much impact it had I expect that to be reflected in the story they bring me.   You've got a funny way of answering questions.Do.  People.  Earn.  Milestones.  For.  Downtime?-I'm assuming the answer is NO, but I'm still unclear.That wasn't my point and you darn well know it, but since you clearly don't care I'm not going to go any further.Hold on cowboy, no I didn't, I said:YOU took the second part of that line and separated it from the first part.  I generally consider any time the DM is handing down orders on how things are going to happen to be a "jerk move".  I didn't call YOU a jerk, I called that kind of play jerk-y.  If you took it personally because you do these kinds of things, perhaps you should evaluate your doing of these things, if you don't like people calling you out on them?  Or maybe you just shouldn't publicly admit to these things on a public message board where people can take you to task over them.</blockquote>

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