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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5945140" data-attributes="member: 42582">No worries. I'm always happy to post a good designer quote!In the same section, Luke does explain that ingame &quot;real&quot; times work for some parts of BW. It works for recovery (of resources and from wounds) and for practice, because these are on the same &quot;downtime&quot; cycle (and so there's a type of trade off going on). And it also works for Fight and Range and Cover, because it is used to adjudicate what can be done in a single action or exchange.It's the inbetween space - in D&amp;D terms, the space between &quot;rounds&quot; and &quot;encounters&quot;, on the one hand, and &quot;downtime&quot; on the other - where adventuring takes place but not in a continuous time-delimiting fashion, that &quot;real&quot; times become GM fiat.(As I said upthread, I think classic D&amp;D did have mechanical management of that in-between time -&nbsp; namely, the turn. But for me the turn - with its wandering monster checks, and searching at doors and for traps, etc - is a symbol of everything I can't stand about classic D&amp;D.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5945140, member: 42582"] No worries. I'm always happy to post a good designer quote! In the same section, Luke does explain that ingame "real" times work for some parts of BW. It works for recovery (of resources and from wounds) and for practice, because these are on the same "downtime" cycle (and so there's a type of trade off going on). And it also works for Fight and Range and Cover, because it is used to adjudicate what can be done in a single action or exchange. It's the inbetween space - in D&D terms, the space between "rounds" and "encounters", on the one hand, and "downtime" on the other - where adventuring takes place but not in a continuous time-delimiting fashion, that "real" times become GM fiat. (As I said upthread, I think classic D&D did have mechanical management of that in-between time - namely, the turn. But for me the turn - with its wandering monster checks, and searching at doors and for traps, etc - is a symbol of everything I can't stand about classic D&D.) [/QUOTE]

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