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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 6861200" data-attributes="member: 6777737">Time exists, but it's not always a pressing issue.  Bandits aren't likely to move on to another geographic region because you stopped for a short rest.  It's not an issue of, "<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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" />, we can't ever stop and rest or everything will be gone or ruined."  You might as well say, "We can't short rest.  I'm a human; I've only got another 70 years of game time."  Time is only a constraint if there's some penalty for failure to act.  In each of the cases I listed, what will happen to the players or the campaign world if they do nothing?  Well, nothing.  Nothing will happen.  None of the rumors are about anything that's going to affect anybody outside this tiny town.  There's more magical weapons than the +1 longsword the bandit leader has.  What's more, it's very possible that none of these will change appreciably in the next several months, with the exception of our desperate merchant trying to get out of town.  A doomsday clock is not an essential component of adventure.Oh, and the green dragon is actually not a green dragon.  It's a group of goblins who are using a canvas float as a cover to steal sheep from shepherds.  They've just killed just one local man who went investigating when they got suspicious, but the rest of the town thinks there's a dragon out snatching up people.Edit:  Think of it like this.  You can only safely travel 8 hours in a game day.  But there's more than 8 hours in the day you could use for travel.  There's 24 hours, and only 8 of them are going to be used for long resting.  You could space the 8 travel hours any way you'd like.  Time exists, but it's not urgent.  There's not a pressing need to get your travel done immediately in the first 8 hours of every day of travel.</blockquote>

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