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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DumbPaladin" data-source="post: 5379759" data-attributes="member: 90770">That's ... an awful lot of questions.  And the last two could be an essay in and of themselves.  Sorry, but I'm just gonna answer a couple.#1 -- 12 hours of walking: almost 0 RP time; there's nothing worthwhile to roleplay, unless a character wants to start a discussion, in which case I'd say give the characters as long as they need.  A random encounter may interrupt this.8 hours of sleeping: I'm not sure how you'd roleplay this; everyone is unconscious.2 hours prepping / eating: Eating can be interesting roleplaying, but usually not the standard meal of iron rations and the like -- I'm thinking fancy restaurants or dinners given as a reward for good deeds done.  So I'd say this falls into the almost 0 RP time category also.  If it's a special meal, maybe 15 minutes.1 hour telling tales by the campfire: I'm fine with this actually taking 1 hour of RP time.  But a lot of groups don't have 1 hour worth of talking in this manner to do.  If yours do, then you're probably fortunate.1/2 hour fighting monsters: This takes up most of the game time, because combat can be rather slow.  Question #2: I think a good amount of roleplaying per session is at least 1 hour each day, though I'd prefer 2 or 3.   The more, the better.  I want a little combat with my roleplaying experience, not a smidgin of RP with my hack-and-slash marathon session.  Other people prefer the opposite.</blockquote>

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