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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7060441" data-attributes="member: 12377">Conceptually I like it, but it's going to result in a TON of die rolls and adding up gold piece progress. I think that's the opposite direction from how you want to go.I'd explore a system of dividing the cost by 5 or 25 to calculate the number of days, and then using proficiency dice to make extra progress on a per-day basis. For example, maybe a Proficient Artisan gets to roll a proficiency die, and an Expert Artisan gets to roll two, and each one that shows a 4 or better makes an extra day's worth of progress. That's theoretically quicker to eyeball than actually adding up all the little numbers. In your plate armor example above, that group would be crafting at 6x normal rate just from their numbers and their facility. Then each day they'd roll 3d4 and for each 4 they'd increase their multiplier (in this case to 9x maximum, but ~7x on average). Since plate armor normally takes 300 days to craft, this group would instead take ~42 days.The simpler optimization is to make the roll not on a daily bases, but on a (however many days you wish to risk) basis. Like, the above group working on plate armor could roll weekly, and multiply the progress result by 7. In other words, DON'T define a session as 8 hours. Instead, make the session as long as the player wants, and multiply the (5 + 5 * Prof.Die) times the number of 8-hour segments. So someone working on plate armor, if they have a lot of downtime, could say, &quot;Yeah I'm just going to make one roll for the next 30 days&quot; and then multiply the result by 30. (Assuming 8 hour days.)I absolutely love your Steps 1-4 and will likely steal them in some form. I would pay good money on DMsGuild for a big document of well-thought-out recipes like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7060441, member: 12377"] Conceptually I like it, but it's going to result in a TON of die rolls and adding up gold piece progress. I think that's the opposite direction from how you want to go. I'd explore a system of dividing the cost by 5 or 25 to calculate the number of days, and then using proficiency dice to make extra progress on a per-day basis. For example, maybe a Proficient Artisan gets to roll a proficiency die, and an Expert Artisan gets to roll two, and each one that shows a 4 or better makes an extra day's worth of progress. That's theoretically quicker to eyeball than actually adding up all the little numbers. In your plate armor example above, that group would be crafting at 6x normal rate just from their numbers and their facility. Then each day they'd roll 3d4 and for each 4 they'd increase their multiplier (in this case to 9x maximum, but ~7x on average). Since plate armor normally takes 300 days to craft, this group would instead take ~42 days. The simpler optimization is to make the roll not on a daily bases, but on a (however many days you wish to risk) basis. Like, the above group working on plate armor could roll weekly, and multiply the progress result by 7. In other words, DON'T define a session as 8 hours. Instead, make the session as long as the player wants, and multiply the (5 + 5 * Prof.Die) times the number of 8-hour segments. So someone working on plate armor, if they have a lot of downtime, could say, "Yeah I'm just going to make one roll for the next 30 days" and then multiply the result by 30. (Assuming 8 hour days.) I absolutely love your Steps 1-4 and will likely steal them in some form. I would pay good money on DMsGuild for a big document of well-thought-out recipes like that. [/QUOTE]

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