Out Of Character

[mushgnome]

As an experiment, I haven't been tracking time and lantern oil quite as strictly on the current Adventure. Does anyone find themselves missing that detailed level of resource management?

It was fun to practice by-the-book time/resource management for the first few Adventures (with the strictly enforced rest turns and what not) to give the game a survival horror element. But looking back, at no point was your party ever in danger of running out the clock and exhausting your resources. The average duration of your Delves has been 24 turns (4 hours) which is the exact burn time of 1 flask of oil. A flask of oil costs only 2gp, an insignificant expense at the party's current level of wealth. (Torches are even cheaper, 6 hours for 1gp.) I figure, the party is suitably Heroic at this point, we don't need to stress about it.

From a game design point of view, it's fun to imagine a system where each character starts with a standard kit, and instead of equipping each character up front, you pay on the way out of the dungeon for the resources your character actually consumed. We're not going to do that, but I could see it working really well for a quick one-shot game.

[rredmond]

I always felt the real danger to a party was not managing its resources well.
But I figure if we start to get in trouble, or abuse that aspect you'd call us out on it.

[Scottenkainen]

Hi all! Things are normal here on my end enough that I can come back to playing.

Where is Beppo?

[rredmond]

That was quick Scott!
You maybe missed one melee

[Scottenkainen]

One melee? I was gone two months!

[rredmond]

Maybe a few more then.

[mushgnome]

Welcome back Scott!

I will do a quick in-dungeon xp award (to save the party a trip back to the surface) and then onward to Area 31!

[rredmond]

I will do a quick in-dungeon xp award (to save the party a trip back to the surface) and then onward to Area 31!

This is great, especially as it should get Bifur more spells??

[mushgnome]

I will do a quick in-dungeon xp award (to save the party a trip back to the surface) and then onward to Area 31!

This is great, especially as it should get Bifur more spells??

Any PC would have to return to the surface and rest for a night, to level up.
(But Bilfur currently doesn't have enough xp. Fiend Folio says Xvarts are only worth 7xp each! I'm debating whether to be a little more generous than that.)

[kipper]

I'm moving house so my posting will be spotty or absent for the next few days.