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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7359725" data-attributes="member: 29398">But what if the player wants to slow it down and make everything more granular; for example making each left-right choice at each intersection even if there's nothing there, rather than jumping straight to the 'action' without real opportunity to do anything else.  This is what I mean when I refer to pacing; where more (or less) granular exploration and interaction with the game world means less (or more) overall story gets told or produced in a session.I'm not sure what your take is on this, but from things pemerton has posted he seems quite concerned with maintaining a 'fast' pace, where lost of story gets told or produced each session (and thus the campaign as a whole is completed sooner); where I by contrast don't care about speed - it can all take as long as it wants to as long as people are having fun.  There'll always be another session, and another after that...This is quoted as posted - I think you were going to say more but it got lost somewhere?Sometimes it feels more like comparing apples to motorboats. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'd say it's more pace of events in the narrative.  Pace of play at the table is another issue entirely.Fine, but it'll seem like a constant barrage of attacks anyway if there's no chance for "downtime activities" between them.  And this is what I'm getting at - if no attention is ever paid to downtime* then it might as well not exist.* - on both the small (exploring empty passages, or PC-to-PC interactions while camped out) and large (what the PCs do during their three-week stopover in town between adventures) scale.Here I agree, and would go a step further and say you don't always need to be flinging anything at them at all.  Give them a chance to determine their own next course of action - that's a part of player agency too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The poor-ness of the 4e and 5e resting rules aside, input into the in-game logistics is very important as a player; and is a part of the 'pacing' agency.Lanefan</blockquote>

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