Yes! "Turns" are back!!

[Blair Goatsblood]

One of my favorite abstractions of earlier versions of D&D was the ten-minute turn.

You rest and bind your wounds after a fight, so most encounters use a turn of time. It takes a turn to search a normal-sized room. You can explore x amount of the dungeon in a turn. The DM rolls for a random encounter every 2 turns. A torch burns for 6 turns.

From what I've seen of 4E, with fights taking 5 minutes; a short rest taking 5 minutes; donning armor taking 5 minutes....The Turn is back with a vengeance baby!! And the turn is a good friend of the dungeonmaster.

 

[MaelStorm]

One of my favorite abstractions of earlier versions of D&D was the ten-minute turn.

You rest and bind your wounds after a fight, so most encounters use a turn of time. It takes a turn to search a normal-sized room. You can explore x amount of the dungeon in a turn. The DM rolls for a random encounter every 2 turns. A torch burns for 6 turns.

From what I've seen of 4E, with fights taking 5 minutes; a short rest taking 5 minutes; donning armor taking 5 minutes....The Turn is back with a vengeance baby!! And the turn is a good friend of the dungeonmaster.

I don't think it will be called turn though. I see it more like the average time an encounter should last. And the 10 minute (average time for 2 encounters) a milestone.

There will be combat turns of 6 sec. and combat rounds (which will last until all PCs, NPCs, monster combat turns end).Then a new combat round begins until fight is completed.

 

[jodyjohnson]

It's just a good approximation for how long a lot of things take.

Get food from the Drive-through 5 minutes
Wait for the train - 5 minutes
Go to the bathroom - 5 minutes
Get the kids in shoes and coats - 5 minutes
Start up the computers - 5 minutes
Go grab a coffee - 5 minutes
Work between checking En World - 5 minutes
Post to a thread - 5 minutes

 

[HP Dreadnought]

It's just a good approximation for how long a lot of things take.

Get food from the Drive-through 5 minutes
Wait for the train - 5 minutes
Go to the bathroom - 5 minutes
Get the kids in shoes and coats - 5 minutes
Start up the computers - 5 minutes
Go grab a coffee - 5 minutes
Work between checking En World - 5 minutes
Post to a thread - 5 minutes

Wow. . . you work a lot harder than I do! LOL!!

 

[Incendax]

It's just a good approximation for how long a lot of things take.

Get food from the Drive-through 20 minutes
Wait for the train - 20 minutes
Go to the bathroom - 20 minutes
Get the kids in shoes and coats - 20 minutes
Start up the computers - 5 minutes
Go grab a coffee - 20 minutes
Work between checking En World - 20 minutes
Post to a thread - 20 minutes

There, fixed!

 

[breschau]

It's just a good approximation for how long a lot of things take.

Start up the computers - 5 minutes

Which is why you should get a Mac. It takes 35 seconds to boot and I'm working (re: checking EN World).

 

[Saishu_Heiki]

It takes 35 seconds to boot and I'm working (re: checking EN World).

For sufficiently large variants of "work", of course.

 

[olshanski]

It's just a good approximation for how long a lot of things take.

Get the kids in shoes and coats - 5 minutes

I call SHENANIGANS!
unless you mean 5 minutes per shoe and per coat.

 

[Nifft]

I call SHENANIGANS!
unless you mean 5 minutes per shoe and per coat.

Unless the shoes are velcro, and the coat is paint.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Moon_Goddess]

It's just a good approximation for how long a lot of things take.


Start up the computers - 5 minutes

5 minutes, takes mine closer to 15. of course I reboot once every few months or so....