Accruing Downtime

Your currently active character can begin collecting downtime after you register your character sheet. After registering you earn 1 downtime day for every real-time day that passes since you registered. Downtime can be used for a number of things outside of doing quests. Some of these depend on the proficiencies of your character. There are two suggested ways to keep track of your downtime.

Using Downtime

You can use downtime to perform a number of activities to benefit your character and others. In order to perform these downtime activities you need to adhere to the rules related to that activity. Below is a description of each activity rule and how to handle it when spending your downtime.

Prequest Downtime Activity

An adventurer could be doing any number of things before an adventure starts. Let your DM know what your character is doing before a quest begins to assist with the narrative and possibly give yourself a small boost.

Most of these actions only require 1 downtime day but can give you an edge in your next quest. Any resources or resolution for taking an action before a quest will be listed in the section along with any checks to make if any are needed.

If no cost is mentioned for a prequest activity it is assumed to only cost 1 downtime day.

Prequest activities should be decided before the quest starts, you should not be holding up the group by figuring out what you want to spend your activity on.

The DM has the right to refuse your prequest activity if it doesn't fit their quest plans or if they do not want to complicate the quest start.

Tool Checks

If an activity calls for a "tool check" you may have a choice of which ability to use, depending on the tool. Consult the table below for which ability may be used which which tool. Your tool check modifier is the associated ability's modifier plus your proficiency bonus, if proficient in that tool.

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

― Saint Francis of Assisi

Racial Features

What bonuses can you use on the ability checks? In general only features that could affect you for several hours are applicable.

• Expert Forgery - Advantage on any check utilizing the forgery kit.

• Powerful Build - Advantage on any Athletics checks used for the Work downtime.

• Shapechanger - Advantage on any check utilizing the disguise kit.

• Tireless Precision. Yes.

Class Features

• Artisan's Blessing - Using this ability for any relevant activity allows you to remove the downtime cost for a recipe that costs 100 gp or less

• Barbarian Rage - No

• Barbarian Persistent Rage - No, until level 20.

• Bardic Inspiration - No

• Enhance Ability - No

• Fabricate - Using this spell for any relevant activity allows you to cut the downtime cost in half (rounded down)

• Fire Rune - Counts as expertise.

• Guidance - No

• Help Action - No

• Magic Item Adept - Each day the Artificer spends crafting a magic item with a rarity of common or uncommon counts for quadruple, and each gold coin counts for 2

• Master Scrivener - Each day the Wizard spends crafting spell scrolls counts for double, and each gold coin counts for 2

• Peerless Skill - No

• Portent - No

• Reliable Talent - Yes

• Umbral Sight - Advantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) check.

• Wizardly Quill - Scribe Wizards do not need to spend Downtime days to copy spells, but must still spend the requisite gold.

Background Features

Certain backgrounds can effect downtime activities. You may use this bonus only if you have the relevant background and exchanged no more than 1 of the proficiency for another.

Feylost

When performing the Research activity regarding Fey, Feywild, Enchantment Magic or Nature you have advantage on the investigation check. You may use Charisma (Persuasion) check instead of a Intelligence (Investigation) when doing the research activity.

Fisher

Harvest the Water - You have advantage on the intelligence or wisdom check to cook with the Cooking activity.

Folk Hero

Rustic Hospitality - For the Work activity, you may divide by 2 instead of 3 for the resolution. Tool and Skill Training only costs 20% less gold for you.

Grinner

Ballad of the Grinning Fool - Same benefit as Entertainer

Gladiator

By Popular Demand - When doing the Pit fighting activity, if you have at least one success than you get an addition one for free.

Guild Artisan

Guild Membership - For any downtime activity that lists your artisan tools as a requirement, every four downtime days the Guild Artisan spends crafting counts for five days. The gold cost remains unchanged.

Alchemy and Potion Crafting

A character can practice alchemy in their downtime by crafting useful concoctions such as potions, acid, or alchemist's fire.

Requirements: Proficiency in Herbalism or Alchemist kits, which ever you use the Item must be within your inventory

In order to brew a potion you must have taken an hour to examine the item or cast the spell Identify on it, in order to know how you can replicate it. Homebrew Items cannot be crafted unless otherwise stated

Resources: You'll also need an amount of gold and downtime days depending on the rarity of the item.

Crafting powerful magical items requires materials and crafting methods that gold alone cannot purchase such things must be quested for. Some items require one or more quests to gain such materials.

Resolution: Make a number of d20 checks equal to the total number of days needed. Add your proficiency to each roll and calculate how many fail a DC16. If you have expertise in the relevant tool set, you may add your proficiency bonus twice to each roll and calculate how many fail a DC16.

For each failed check the downtime and gold cost are increased by 1 day and 25 gp (you do not roll additional d20's for these days).

If you do not have enough downtime or gold to cover the increased cost you may pay the costs at a later time (you do not complete the item until costs are paid).

Contract Work: You can help other players brew potions. The downtime and gold cost may be split in whatever way you wish.

If the downtime is split evenly between all players, the crafter may add your proficiency to the rolls they make. If it cannot be split evenly, the excess day may be taken from any of the participants. The total number of days should add up to the original number. If a person has expertise in relevant tool, you may add their proficiency bonus twice.

Brewing a potion with contracted work is generally the best way to craft magic items and can remove the need to make the checks entirely.

Prequest Action: Your character can spend the night before a quest preparing potions.

You can take an Uncommon or Common (non-homebrew) potion and split it into a number of smaller but just as potent temporary doses (and lose the potion in the process). The total number of temporary potions you may break it into 2 doses.

Blacksmithing

Smithing lets you use your downtime to work metal, heating it to alter its shape, repair damage, or work raw ingots into useful items.

Requirements: Smith’s Tools and proficiency in them.

In order to craft a copy of an item you must have seen and examined the item beforehand.

Resources: Raw materials worth half of the item (or items) selling cost and a number of downtime days equal to its gold cost divided by: your Smith's tools modifier or 5, whichever is larger. Broken items of the same or similar type can also be used as resources to repair or alter items.

You may also upgrade a mundane non-magical weapon to Masterwork quality giving +1 to attack rolls made with that weapon. Doing so has a cost of 300 gp and a 5 downtime days.

Resolution: The character successfully crafts the item and can add it to their inventory or sell it for the full listed cost.

Contract Work: A character can craft items for another using the above Resolution rules. They can also assist another crafter in creating an item. Both characters must meet the Requirements and can split the downtime and gp costs as desired.

Prequest Action: Your character may spend the time before a quest sharpening and preparing their metal weapons and armor or that of their allies. You may choose a number of metal weapons and armor equal to your tool check modifier divided by 2, rounded up.

A prepared weapon has a +1 to damage for the first combat encounter in which it is used (used in this case meaning making an attack roll).

A prepared set of armor allows the wearer to use their reaction to negate 1 critical hit on the wearer. This can only be done once during the quest.

Brewing

Brewing is the art of producing beer with your downtime. Not only does beer serve as an alcoholic beverage, but the process of brewing purifies water. Crafting a beer takes weeks of fermentation but only a few hours of work.

Requirements: Brewer's Supplies and proficiency in them.

Resources: To craft a beer requires 3 days of downtime which are spent over the course of a week checking and maintaining the process and finally sealing and storing it.

You'll also need to purchase an amount of materials for the brew equal to half the selling cost.

Resolution: First choose a type of brew you'd like to make from the list of beers. Then make a Intelligence or Wisdom (Brewer's Tools) check against the difficulty check. If you fail the DC the beer becomes a Dud Brew. You can either keep the batch or sell it for the listed amount (half that amount if you used some already).

You may only store one batch of beer at a time. To make more you must consume or sell your current batch.

If you keep the beer you may use it and its effect during quests as a prequest action. Once you have done this two times the batch will be depleted.

Prequest Action: It's sometimes good to take one for the road. You can package up enough beer to liven up a short rest during your quest. Once per quest you can uncork the beer you have stored and share it. At the end of the short rest, you and your companions gain a temporary buff until the end of your next rest. The effect differs depending on the type of beer.

"Merlot, hold my beer." - Bryson divine soul sorcerer, prior to slaying a manticore with fireball

Beer Effects

Each beer has a different effect on you and your allies at the end of a short rest.

Dud Brew
You didn't create something amazing but it's still beer. Allies gain a number of temporary hit points at the end of the rest equal to your tool proficiency bonus.

Druidcraft Beer
Your beer creates a harmless sensory effect that seems to follow you around after you drink it. Effects such as falling leaves, a puff of wind, the sound of a small animal, or the faint odor of skunk. The brewer chooses what the effect upon creation. The effect lasts for 1 hour or until the drinker chooses to end it.

The Good Stuff
A basic tasty beer. Allies gain temporary hp equal to half your level (rounded up) plus your skill proficiency bonus.

Glowglass
A gnomish grew made from glowing mushrooms. Players who drink this shed light like a candle for 1d4 hours.

The Secret Ingredient
You create a nasty concoction with a nasty secret ingredient that doesn't actually taste half bad. Once drunk, anyone who knows the ingredients of the beer can use their action to inform the others of the ingredients. Anyone who heard this may use their reaction to cast Acid Splash with a range of 10 ft (the character expels the drink). Each ally may only do this once and only after hearing the ingredients. "He put WHAT in that beer?!".

Clockwhistle's Surprise
An okay tasting drink that is popular purely for the fun of it. The imbiber may choose to roll on Wild Magic table upon failing an attack roll or receiving damage, rerolling for effects that directly harm any creature or player. The DM can also decide what happens. The effect can not be affected by features granted to Wild Magic Sorcerers.

Milligun's Deep Stout
A dark dwarven ale. Grants advantage on saving throws against the fear effect for 1d4 hours.

Dragon's Breath
You create a beverage with a distinct flavour. Each ally that drinks the beer gains a single-use breath attack that must be used before the next rest. You can choose one of the following "flavours" for your beer: Acid, Lightning, Poison, Fire, or Cold.

As an action, the ally can use the breath attack. Each creature within a 10 ft cone must make a DEX saving throw. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d4 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The ally also gets a second taste of the beer.

The damage increases to 3d4 at 6th level, 4d4 at 11th level, and 5d4 at 16th level.

Building

To start building you need at least 10% of the total cost to begin construction and work can only progress up the amount of gold invested. The workers of farwater will decrease the build time by 1 per day. Better workers can be found as a result of questing.

Carousing

Drunken debauchery and merriment among adventurers is anything but rare, as life is hard and celebrations make it all better. It could be that you just saw a fellow adventurer get brutally mauled and nothing of their corpse remains, you could have found the lost city of Don Juan and are rich beyond your wildest dreams, or maybe you just wanna see what happens, regardless you’re drinking, and doing so in copious amounts.

Resources: 30 gp and 3 days of downtime

Resolution: Roll a d100 and add your character’s level and compare the total to Carousing table using the resolution result column to determine the result.

You may incur additional gp and downtime day costs based on your roll.

Any additional costs must be paid off before you are able to perform any other downtime activities.

Prequest Action: For 10 gp and a single downtime day, your character could spend the day before a quest carousing if the DM allows it. This may place them in an interesting position to be found at the beginning of the quest. You may collect the normal Resolution results and your character will be located in the location specified in the last column of the table.

Regardless of the outcome, make a DC 10 Constitution check. On a failure your character is pretty hungover for the next 24 hours. Additional checks may be required to avoid accidents.

Black Pete

Come hear the story- The Hunt for Black Pete,
And about the brave folk who set on his trail.
A dastardly man who sold slaves full-scale,
The poor mother told of who they must defeat-
“He’s a pirate,” she said, “oh what a cheat.
Through forest you’ll go, for it seems you lack sail.”
Through forest indeed, calm without gale,
An Ent they met, not bound by rooted feet.
Pete’s Gang hid in a church on a large hill,
And with shattered spells secret doors lay agape,
Their insides left to test those with the will.
Through guards many- their bodies soon reshaped,
The final chase was one of great thrill, but
In the end Black Pete managed to escape.
The chase is not done;
Pete is still on the run.
-From the writings of Holgar Dimun

Cooking

Cooking can be used for making strange exotic meals using many of the strange plants and animals near Farwater.

Requirements: Proficiency with cooking utensils

Resources: To cook a meal requires 1 days of downtime. This is spend shopping for the ingredients, cooking the food and freezing it

You'll also need to purchase an amount of materials for the meal equal to half the selling cost.

Resolution: First choose a type of meal you'd like to make from the list of meals. Then make a Intelligence or Wisdom (cooking utensils) check against the difficulty check. You can either keep the batch or sell it for the listed amount. Meal can be consumed for a short rest but only one meal may be consumed during a short rest. Maximum of three meal can be eaten before a long rest

Crafting Non-Magical Items.

You can the time and money into crafting items with your artisan tools. Crafting any non-magical item or consumable is subject to these rules.

Requirements: Proficiency with a relevant Artisan’s Tools

You must be familiar with the item you wish to craft either by having studied one before or

In order to craft a consumable you must have taken an hour to examine the item or cast the spell Identify on it, in order to know how you can replicate it. Homebrew Items cannot be crafted unless otherwise stated

Resources: Raw materials worth half of the item (or items) selling cost and a number of downtime days equal to its gold cost divided by: your tool modifier or 5, whichever is larger.

If the item you wish to craft does not have a price listed in the PHB or in the server's store document you may refer to the table below to find the price. Consumables are half the listed cost.

Resolution: The character successfully crafts the non-magical and can add it to their inventory or sell it for the full listed cost.

Contract Work: A character can craft for another using the above Resolution rules. They can also assist another crafter in creating an item. Both characters must meet the Requirements and can split the downtime and gp costs as desired.

Siege Equipment Costs

The following are the crafting costs of siege equipment

Due to the size of the Ammunition, Seige ammunition count as a single weapon for coating in Silvering and Adamantine.

"I need a magical longbow, but I don't think there are any in Farwater." Balle shrugs "As ready as reasonable."

"Yeah?" He frowns, pensive, "I think I saw Abarid with one just earlier... Or at least, he went looking to get silver arrows made." "I can only assume he has a bow, else he's just throwing arrows really, really hard." - Edgar Sinclair

Gambling

Games of chance are a way to make a fortune—and perhaps a better way to lose one.

Requirement: Characters cannot earn more than a total of 10,000 gp from this activity

Resources: This activity requires one downtime day plus a stake of at least 20 gp, to a maximum of 1,000 gp.

Resolution: The character must make a series of checks, with a DC determined at random based on the quality of the competition that the character runs into. Part of the risk of gambling is that one never knows who might end up sitting across the table. The character makes three checks: Wisdom (Insight), Charisma (Deception), and Charisma (Intimidation). If the character has proficiency with an appropriate gaming set, that tool proficiency can replace one of the checks. The DC for each of the checks is 5 + 2d10; generate a separate DC for each one.

Consult the table below to see how the character did.

Intensive Training

Downtime can be spent hard at work training with others to reach higher levels of power.

Requirements: You must have a contracted training partner who matches your spent downtime.

Resources: 100 gp per day spent training.

Resolution: You gain 100 xp per day of training.

Contract Work: You can assist someone’s training with no requirements other than 1 downtime day per day spent by the character training. You do not gain experience but may request payment from the trainee for the cost of your time.

Level	Min Exp to Train
3	2520
4	6120
5	13,250
6	22,100
7	32,900
8	46,600
9	62,400
10	82,900
11	98,500
12	118,000
13	138,000
14	162,500
15	192,000
16	222,000
17	261,000
18	301,000
19	350,000
20	400,000
Epic 1	450,000
Epic 2	500,000
Epic 3	550,000
Epic 4	600,000

Magic Scroll Crafting

With time and patience, a spellcaster can transfer a spell to a scroll, creating a spell scroll.

Requirements: Must have the spellcasting or pact magic feature and must have the spell you wish to craft known through that feature.

Resources: You must have a number of downtime and gp according to the spell level you wish to craft (Spells higher than 7th level are not craftable in this way). See below table. Scrolls are always created and paid for at the minimum level of the spell.

Resolution: You create a scroll of the desired spell.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats

Master Scrivener - Each day a Scribe Wizard spends crafting spell scrolls counts for double, and each gold coin counts for 2

Wizardly Quill - Scribe Wizards do not need to spend Downtime days to copy spells, but must still spend the requisite gold.

Magic Item Creation

Downtime can be spent replicating the enchantments and intricacies of magic items they've seen. While difficult it can certainly be rewarding.

Requirements: The player must be familiar with the item they wish to craft. They must also meet the minimum level requirement of the item according to the table below. Homebrew items cannot be crafted unless they explicitly state so. At least one player must be proficient in the relevant artisan or crafting tool. For example, to craft a ring of spell storing, the player need proficiency in Jeweler's Kit.

Resources: You will require a base item to turn magical. This is usually whatever form the item takes (a sword, a cape, a ring). You'll also need an amount of gold and downtime days depending on the rarity of the item.

Crafting powerful magical items requires materials and crafting methods that gold alone and require magic items to be used as part of the creation. Note: Minor Tier items count as half a sacrifice

Resolution: Make a number of d20 checks equal to the total number of days needed. If you are proficient in the relevant tool set, you may add your proficiency bonus to each roll and calculate how many fail a DC 16 Check. If you have expertise in the relevant tool set, you may add your proficiency bonus twice to each roll and calculate how many fail a DC 16 Check.

For each failed check The downtime and gold cost are increased by 1 day and 25 gp (you do not roll additional d20's for these days).

If you do not have enough downtime or gold to cover the increased cost you may pay the costs at a later time (you do not complete the item until costs are paid).

To create a Common item with a +3 proficiency use the following Avrae command: !rrr 4 d20+3 16

Ammo comes in bundles of ten except for "Arrow of Slaying", which is crafted one at a time.

Contract Work: : You can help other players craft magical items. The downtime and gold cost may be split in whatever way you wish. Your combine proficiency is the Total of all proficiency bonuses divided by number of characters plus the number of characters. At least one person on the project must be proficient in the relevant tool set for the item, any person not proficient may assist with Downtime or gold. Expertise in the relevant tool allows you to add their proficiency bonus twice.

Pit Fighting

Pit fighting includes boxing, wrestling, and other non lethal forms of combat in an organized setting with predetermined matches. If you want to introduce competitive fighting in a battle-to-the-death situation, the standard combat rules apply to that sort of activity.

Requirements: Engaging in this activity requires five downtime days of effort from a character.

Resources: You must have one unspent hit die which will remain spent until the end of your next quest

Resolution: The character must make a series of checks, with a DC determined at random based on the quality of the opposition that the character runs into. A big part of the challenge in pit fighting lies in the unknown nature of a character's opponents. The character makes three checks: Strength (Athletics), Dexterity (Acrobatics), and a special Constitution check that has a bonus equal to a roll of the character’s largest Hit Die (this roll does spend that die and is only restored after your next quest).

The DC for each of the checks is 1d10 + 5; generate a separate DC for each one. Consult the Pit Fighting Results table to see how the character did.

Winning Streak. When the character succeeds all three checks they are undefeated in their match as such the next time you perform this activity you return as the champion adding 1d10 to the DC for each of the checks for each pit fight you win until you have been defeated. You then gain additional your winnings multiplied by your winning streak.

King of the Pit. When a character is undefeated three matches in a row. They have the right to challenge the character who is the current King of the Pit, with both characters rolling for the fight as above using opposing results to determine the winner.

Poisoncraft

A character can practice poison crafting and make such poison as Malice or Midnight Tears.

Requirements: Proficiency in Poisoner's Kit
In order to brew a poison you must have taken an hour to examine the item or cast the spell Identify on it, in order to know how you can replicate it. Homebrew Items cannot be crafted unless they have the craftable tag.

Resources: You'll also need an amount of gold and downtime days depending on the gold cost of the item. You must pay half of the base cost of the poison and downtime days equal to gold value/100 rounded up.

Resolution: Make a number of d20 checks equal to the total number of days needed. Add your proficiency to each roll and calculate how many fail a DC16. For each failed check the downtime and gold cost are increased by 1 day and 25 gp (you do not roll additional d20's for these days).

If you do not have enough downtime or gold to cover the increased cost you may pay the costs at a later time (you do not complete the item until costs are paid).

Contract Work: You can help other players craft a poison. The downtime and gold cost may be split in whatever way you wish. If the downtime is split evenly between all players, the crafter may add your proficiency to the rolls they make. If it cannot be split evenly, the excess day may be taken from any of the participants. The total number of days should add up to the original number. Crafting a poison with contracted work is generally the best way to craft and can remove the need to make the checks entirely.

Prequest Action: Your character can spend the night before a quest preparing poisons. You can take any poison worth less than 1000gp split it into two smaller doses. The poison doses loses potency after the quest. Each dose still has the full causes of the poison.

“Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposèd kings encamp them still, In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

(Inside the little rind of this weak flower, there is both poison and powerful medicine. If you smell it, you feel good all over your body. But if you taste it, you die. There are two opposite elements in everything, in men as well as in herbs-good and evil. When evil is dominant, death soon kills the body like cancer.) ”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet