Running Downtime using Seasonal Phases

 

Warwick Goble

Seasons have 4 Seasonal Actions each representing about 3 weeks.  At the end of each Season, during the Seasonal Phase, you perform Seasonal Actions.  The number of Seasonal Actions taken is reduced for every 3 weeks (rounding up) spent traveling or adventuring.  Seasonal Actions can be anything from training (learning techniques, increasing skills), to research, to spreading rumors to working jobs.  

During the Seasonal Phase characters may also change alignment, and attributes.  When a player wants to increase attributes they must select two attributes and select one to be "reinforced" for each attribute starting with the reinforced one they roll a 1D6, on a roll of 5,6 they increase the attribute by one, on a roll of 3,4 the attribute remains the same, on a roll of 1,2 the attribute decreases by 1.  The reinforced attribute cannot decrease.

During the Winter Seasonal Phase, 5 Seasonal Turns are taken instead of 4.