<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=262653.msg12988246#msg12988246">Quote from: Wispyr on 18-02-2017, 21:52:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">In standard D&amp;D, by the rules, you can spend 8 hours of a day doing <em>something</em>. Be that adventuring, crafting, researching, etc. After that you need a break. Your long rest takes up 8 hours. And then you have another 8 hours that you can theoretically use on a different task.<br/><br/>At a table it would be like:<br/><br/>.....................<br/><br/>And bam. Day done.<br/><br/>That conversation? Not compelling writing centric RP.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yeah.  This part I get.  prompt-based, DM driven.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The benefit of earning segments is... That what if you had some left over from the time before? Say everyone had... 2 segments left over from before. Well this means suddenly everyone has 8 segmenets to use. This means that Rummy <strong>can</strong> transcribe all of his spells in this period of downtime. Which is a big difference having access to that third level he might not have had otherwise.<br/><br/>Doing it like this lets writers who write at different paces, or have lots to do just push through things quickly. It makes sure that no one loses time because they can't write as much as someone else. Arc, you can post multiple times a day. CeruleanSerenity can post maybe twice a week. The amount of stuff that YOU can get done in downtime is astronomically more than what she could get done.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>You totally lose me again here.  This suggests ... I don't even really know what this means.  Part of it sounds like a penalty for posting too fast, because (kind of like with the starter threads) Once you're out of time, you're sitting around to keep with slower posting paces.  The other part of it sounds like I could sit here and go 'well, I have 72 hours to kill and don't really have any crafting, no spellbook, no IC reason to go get laid and I haven't heard any promising leads, so I'll tuck 3 days away for next time we hit town'.... which totally doesn't click in my head.<br/><br/><br/>Some of this (like the Mira/Aribeth examples) sounds like you're going to basically let us 'sidequest' during downtime.  Which is fine.  But<em>earning </em>is just not processing, because all I can think is 'that doesn't make sense.  either you do something or you don't'.