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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 9452472" data-attributes="member: 93631">The first sentence under &quot;Time&quot; in the Shadowdark rules states, &quot;Time passes in the game world at the same pace it's passing in the real world. One minute or hour of game time is equal to one minute or hour in real time.&quot; This is why we track torches in real time. I consider D&amp;D and its progeny games with thoroughly gamist priorities, so this doesn't bother me in the slightest. Especially OSR games, with their explicit emphasis on player skill--they're gamist to the&nbsp; bone IMO. Anyway, as I said in the OP, I love real-time torches and dislike rigorous tracking of in-game time (YMMV).My question is, if time is passing at the same rate in-game as it's passing in the real world, and if we're tracking torches in real-time already, why are we then counting &quot;crawling rounds,&quot; a measure of in-game time, to determine when we should make random encounter checks? We're checking every 1-3 crawling rounds, depending on the danger level of the environment. Why not stick to the idea of real-time tracking and simply check for random encounters every 10-30 minutes (or whatever) of real time?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 9452472, member: 93631"] The first sentence under "Time" in the Shadowdark rules states, "Time passes in the game world at the same pace it's passing in the real world. One minute or hour of game time is equal to one minute or hour in real time." This is why we track torches in real time. I consider D&D and its progeny games with thoroughly gamist priorities, so this doesn't bother me in the slightest. [I]Especially[/I] OSR games, with their explicit emphasis on [I]player[/I] skill--they're gamist to the bone IMO. Anyway, as I said in the OP, I love real-time torches and dislike rigorous tracking of in-game time (YMMV). My question is, if time is passing at the same rate in-game as it's passing in the real world, and if we're tracking torches in real-time already, why are we then counting "crawling rounds," a measure of in-game time, to determine when we should make random encounter checks? We're checking every 1-3 crawling rounds, depending on the danger level of the environment. Why not stick to the idea of real-time tracking and simply check for random encounters every 10-30 minutes (or whatever) of real time? [/QUOTE]

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