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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5799887" data-attributes="member: 22779">Pemerton gets this pretty well.  My point is that, regardless of any other time that passes in game - travel time, resting time, faffing around time - the maximum time difference over 20 levels of the game is only about six months.Considering that a 1-20 campaign is likely going to take several in-game years, adding an extra six months isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference.Which brings me back to But, again, as Pemerton says, is EVERYTHING in your game this time dependent?  Or, to ask this another way, do I have to play this way in order to make 3e work?  Can I relax the time requirements a bit and still not have to worry about it?See, this is what I'm talking about.  You are saying that the way to make 3e work is to have an extremely high pacing, independent of the PC's actions.  The PC's MUST ACT NOW all the time, or the DM gets out the newspaper and whacks them on the nose.While I do loves me a good time based adventure, if every adventure and every campaign must be time based to the point where a few days will always matter, how is this not extremely limiting of playstyles?What if I want to play an Isle of Dread style exploration campaign where there is no time limit?  Or Keep on the Borderlands where taking a few extra weeks doesn't really have any impact?  Are you saying that 3e cannot do these adventures?S'mon - yeah, I can agree with those issues.  4e doesn't do throwaway encounters very well at all.  Although, that being said, it does depend a lot on group.  My bunch seem to get through 4e combats (at least pretty strong combats) in about 40 minutes to an hour, regardless of level.  There have been some notable exceptions (NEVER EVER USE WRAITHS!!) but that seems to be where we are.  But, even at that speed, trying to do something with as many combats as you'd see in some of the older 1e modules would take bloody forever.  So, yeah, I'd agree with you there.</blockquote>

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