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#1 Feeroper Aug 10, 2014 20:59:20	I'm kind of confused about downtime in AL - for encounters, between episodes if 1 player wants to spend 10 days let's say and other players don't want to spend any days, how is that resolved? What happens to players that don't want to spend the same amount of time, how do you rationalize them not paying their lifestyle fees and such?   Also, why does a player need to spend 30 days improving lifestyle - let's say they have a ton of gold they are hoarding, couldn't they just start living it big out the gate? Do we know what lifestyle the PC starts at after creation (considering the low income they will have at level 1 I imagine it's lower)?   in a home game it doesn't matter as much, as PCs aren't awarded a downtime "currency" or allowance of days, and I understand why they need it for OP, I just want to see how we are supposed to be working it out with these situations.
#2 Skerrit Aug 11, 2014 6:45:20	Downtown is an abstraction. If one PC spends 10 days, it doesn't mean they don't adventure for 10 days while the others do. It's a summary of what you are doing with your freetime.
#3 DocSun Aug 11, 2014 8:56:24	I read it as a bankable resource you pay your days you have acumulated to do something with them. I didn't think you had to use them right away so its not an actual refrence of time but more of an arbitray award "timeframe" to use to gain a benifit.
#4 DavidArgall Aug 11, 2014 12:37:21	Feeroper wrote:
#5 Feeroper Aug 11, 2014 23:56:35	No you don't have to use them right away, but if someone in the group is using them for an activity between episodes for encounters then it would stand to reason that those who don't want to spend downtime days will have to pay the corresponding lifestyle expenses. It's different between expeditions as you can have different groups all the time, but with encounters you can stay with the same group the whole time more or less.   downtime can be banked, but if anyone else is using a downtime activity, then anyone else who just wants to save the days would have to pay for the corresponding days via lifestyle expenses.   DavidArgall - downtime and lifestyle expenses are ruled in AL. You have specific things you can spend downtime days earned on, but must maintain a lifestyle cost in off times wether or not you are using downtime activities. Doing a job is indeed an activity you can do, but that actually depletes your downtime days doing that. It isn't as hand wavey as you think.