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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8870150" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>That's not exactly the thing, though. They recognize that there are non-combat encounters that can be used for XP. But they generally take up a lot of room.</p><p></p><p>To use Extinction Curse as an example again, at the start of adventure 2 you need to negotiate for the use of a plot near Escadar where you can hold your circus performance. This is an encounter that takes up two pages in the book, and introduces a couple of NPCs that will show up later, and success at the negotiations gives you 80 XP.</p><p></p><p>You know what else gives 80 XP? A moderate combat encounter. For example:</p><p></p><p>Black pudding -- Creature 7</p><p>Pathfinder Bestiary 255</p><p>Initiative Perception +9</p><p></p><p>Now, if you have 64 pages in which to deliver 4,000 XP, you can be forgiven for leaning more on option B than option A. In the words of Londo Mollari, "And here we are, victims of mathematics."</p><p></p><p></p><p>The issue is that there's not really any support for that. The downtime rules in the core book take up one (1) page, and enumerate the things you can do during downtime:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Long-term rest</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Retraining</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Skill activities, specifically:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Craft</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Create forgery</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Earn income</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Subsist</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Treat disease</li> </ul></li> </ul><p>There's also a section on "other downtime activities." It is a single paragraph seven lines long that basically says "Oh, and other things I guess." Yes, you could be researching spells, making contacts, or whatever. But there is no support for that in the game itself, so at that point you have to figure out rules yourself.</p><p></p><p>The GMG has a little more stuff on downtime, but they're basically ways of making Earn Income more interesting by providing examples of what it can actually mean using different Lores at different levels, and how you can spice it up some. There's still no support for doing <strong>other</strong> stuff during downtime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8870150, member: 907"] That's not exactly the thing, though. They recognize that there are non-combat encounters that can be used for XP. But they generally take up a lot of room. To use Extinction Curse as an example again, at the start of adventure 2 you need to negotiate for the use of a plot near Escadar where you can hold your circus performance. This is an encounter that takes up two pages in the book, and introduces a couple of NPCs that will show up later, and success at the negotiations gives you 80 XP. You know what else gives 80 XP? A moderate combat encounter. For example: Black pudding -- Creature 7 Pathfinder Bestiary 255 Initiative Perception +9 Now, if you have 64 pages in which to deliver 4,000 XP, you can be forgiven for leaning more on option B than option A. In the words of Londo Mollari, "And here we are, victims of mathematics." The issue is that there's not really any support for that. The downtime rules in the core book take up one (1) page, and enumerate the things you can do during downtime: [LIST] [*]Long-term rest [*]Retraining [*]Skill activities, specifically: [LIST] [*]Craft [*]Create forgery [*]Earn income [*]Subsist [*]Treat disease [/LIST] [/LIST] There's also a section on "other downtime activities." It is a single paragraph seven lines long that basically says "Oh, and other things I guess." Yes, you could be researching spells, making contacts, or whatever. But there is no support for that in the game itself, so at that point you have to figure out rules yourself. The GMG has a little more stuff on downtime, but they're basically ways of making Earn Income more interesting by providing examples of what it can actually mean using different Lores at different levels, and how you can spice it up some. There's still no support for doing [B]other[/B] stuff during downtime. [/QUOTE]
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