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Vitamin D is for Downtime

Vitamin D is for Downtime

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Mad Jay
Mar 15, 2021
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I’m a fan of having downtime in long, multi-session games. Time to breathe, sit with the hot events and reincorporate it all.

In the Mouse Guard RPG, it is called the player’s turn. Here they drive the actions and spend game currency ‘checks’ to accomplish things they care about or heal and repair. Blades in the Dark also has this phase of play — but rea…

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