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5e living expenses12/31/2023 Going further down, we can find a few things that our players can do during their Downtime Days, though it is far from being an exhaustive list. This helps them keep focus when it comes time to figuring our their Downtime Days, while not being a crazy prohibitive cost. This keeps them motivated to find contracts, gold and information around the city. This first bit covers the assumption that players will spend 2 gp per day in the city of Aurora. Looking at this document, we immediately start talking about Costs and this strange place called Aurora, which is a massive city the players are in currently. Heads up, sometimes GM Binder will render the document incorrectly dependent on your browser, for best experience use chrome or download the pdf from the button above. Getting Startedīefore we go any further, I’ll go ahead and drop a link to my Downtime Days file on GM Binder, I’ll be updating this link in the future. All fascinating stuff that they really don’t go into enough. Now on these days, the PHB will go on to explain their one-size-fits-all crafting system, practicing a profession, recuperating from near-death injuries and researching topics. It is important to specify that these days happen between the adventures as typically characters have things they want to focus on, and they can’t do that if there is doomsday clock set to explode soon. So what exactly are downtime days? According to the Player’s Handbook on page 187, they are days in between adventures. It’s about sinking into your character and exploring what they do when they aren’t saving the world. This new campaign is about enjoying the massive city they are in, taking the time to go to the gym or to work on that one Signature Dish they been trying to craft in their downtime. But that was the flavor of that campaign. That first campaign was all about saving the entire Planes and there was little time to relax and sink into the skins of their characters. I set them up to be attacked on one day when they weren’t doing anything by duergar and drow assassins. I set them up to track down an arcanaloth through a major city on one of their few days not saving the world. It was just them running from adventure to adventure, and even when they did have Downtime Days it was of my own creation. I’ll admit: my first campaign had little to no downtime days. These downtime days are a way for your players to have a chance to tackle those small side missions that no one else at the table deems worthy of their precious table time. They still count in D&D and for your players, even if they dont always advance your plot. You should check it out if you have any interests in useful tools, rules, and magical enchantments. As a side note, even if you aren’t into podcasts, I shared a bunch of my homebrew stuff on there. We started a Patreon ! This helps the blog and can net you even more homebrew!įor a while now, Chris has been bugging me to post about my Downtime Days system, and seeing how our latest episode of the No INT Here Podcast touched on it, I figured why not.
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