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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7931424" data-attributes="member: 12731">You're welcome. Either you have all the time in the world (hours) and then why even roll?Or you don't. If there's only one party member able to identify a particular object and the probability of success is 50% then it's still a 12,5% probability you haven't succeeded even after 30 minutes. Having a rule that says &quot;identifying items take anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes&quot; makes me very irritated. It means you can't tell stories where an item is found and then used right after, simply because the mechanics get in the way. But mostly why all that dice rolling as if it was in any way shape or form interesting to have this variance. Also the way you're asked to make a game out of each and every breather between encounters. Being asked whether you fancy your chances of doing something useful in, say, 20 minutes of downtime as opposed to taking some other 10-minute activity is......exhausting, is the only word I can think of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7931424, member: 12731"] You're welcome. Either you have all the time in the world (hours) and then why even roll? Or you don't. If there's only one party member able to identify a particular object and the probability of success is 50% then it's still a 12,5% probability you haven't succeeded even after 30 minutes. Having a rule that says "identifying items take anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes" makes me very irritated. It means you can't tell stories where an item is found and then used right after, simply because the mechanics get in the way. But mostly why all that dice rolling as if it was in any way shape or form interesting to have this variance. Also the way you're asked to make a game out of [I]each and every[/I] breather between encounters. Being asked whether you fancy your chances of doing something useful in, say, 20 minutes of downtime as opposed to taking some other 10-minute activity is... ...[I]exhausting[/I], is the only word I can think of. [/QUOTE]

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