Questions tagged [time]
For questions concerned primarily with the passing of time in the game world or at the table. (For questions specifically about the duration of a spell or other effect in-game, use the [duration] tag; if the question is about the pacing and rhythm of the game, use the [pacing] tag.)
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Channel Divinity: Artisan's Blessing + Crafting an Item = Time?
Say our Cleric is trying to make a set of Plate and has acquired 750 Gold or 4 houses worth of copper pipe.
Crafting an item requires raw materials equal to 1/2 an items selling cost presumably for ...
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When a process takes longer than a round, at what point is a skill check made?
The party wizard is about to copy a high-level scroll into her spellbook. She has a +10 on Arcana, and a good chance of making the DC16 roll, despite it being a sixth-level scroll:
A wizard spell on ...
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How often does a lich have to feed a soul to its phylactery?
Background info for this question: I’m working on a (mostly) homebrew campaign in Forgotten Realms, where the party finds a box/terrarium thing next to a skeleton in a dungeon, that they won’t be able ...
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What's a clock and how do I use one?
I've heard of using a 'clock' to help manage encounters and create tension, but how do you create and use one within a campaign/session/encounter?
I have seen it used in other games, like Scum and ...
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How can I make travel time feel long? [closed]
At the moment, my players are investigating a black naval ship that unknown to them is a trap. It will end up taking them to an island for a trial.
I want the travel of the ship to feel like it takes ...
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Do characters have to wait 24 hours to long rest, if a long rest is interrupted?
If characters have been interrupted during a long rest, do they need to wait 24 hours before taking a long rest again? The rules specify that only one long rest is allowed in 24 hours but it also ...
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How to justify time-sensitive encounters without it seeming convenient?
I'm running an encounter in Cyberpunk Red where the baddies are chainsawing a hole into an immobilized car to kill the driver, and our heroes have to rush in before the bad guys finish drilling!
How ...
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What ways are there to cast spells faster?
Some spells take significantly longer than an action to cast, but can be cast much quicker than that under some conditions:
Wish (1 action). Duplicates a spell of 8th level or lower.
A Chronurgy ...
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How fast (in game-time) would you go from level 1 to level 20 using the DMG encounter guidelines?
The DMG does have guidance for encounters per day and XP per encounter, as well as for gold earned from treasure hoards by level.
There are already tables that calculate how much gold you would have ...
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Are rounds just for combat, or should we be using them at other times in the game?
There have been assertions made that rounds and turns only exist within the confines of combat for D&D 5e, or in particular that during a short rest there are no rounds when looking at things like ...
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Are the times listed in The Castle Guide in weeks or days?
In The Castle Guide supplement page 54 is a table detailing several building types and their associated costs and requirements. Are the values under the column for build time meant to represent person-...
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How is it possible to get back to Ten-Towns in time in Destruction's Light?
The chapter Destruction's Light in Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden suggests that
However, returning to Ten-Towns takes time. By my measure, the distance to the nearest town (Dougan's Hole) is ...
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Does Faerûn have timezones?
I read this tweet by RPGBOT.net:
In #DnD5e a lot of magic items reset at dawn.
Dawn is a geographically-dependent time. What time "dawn" occurs changes based on where you are.
There is ...
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Do downtime activities that take longer than a day have to be performed on consecutive days?
For example, let's say a character wants to retrain a feat, it will take him 7 days (a week) of downtime.
Do these 7 days have to be consecutive, or can they be split? For example, could he retrain ...
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What method can be used to renew a psionic power on a schedule, even if the character sleeping or unconscious?
If a character wants to have a psionic power renew on a once or twice per day schedule (no more than twice per day at max) regardless of external circumstances or personal status conditions up to and ...
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