Downtime Activities

As members of the Magistery, you have a lot of resources to research and develop various things, learn languages, hone skills, and even create magical items or new inventions. Some of these downtime activities (particularly the ones with a social aspect) may incur a complication. Perhaps you accidentally create a rival, or earn a bad reputation for something. Complications vary, and it is unpredictable.

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The categories of Downtime include:

• #Working in the Artificery (gaining gold)
• #Crafting (Creating magical items for personal use, or for sale)
• #Selling a Magic Item (Privately selling obtained or crafted magical items)
• #Training (may gain proficiency with skills or tools, or learn a language)
• #Relaxing (gain advantage against diseases and poisons)
• #Gambling (potentially gaining or losing money)
• #Wrestling (potentially gain prize winnings)
• #Research (potentially learning some piece of useful lore)
• #Scribing Spell Scroll(s) (create a spell scroll for personal use)
• #Carousing (potentially gaining vital trade contacts)
• #Religious Service (potentially gaining religious favor)

Working in the Artificery

Working in the artificery can be considered the default downtime activity. Apprentices are allowed to assist in the workshop, and Disciples and above are allowed more complex projects and endeavors, including experimentation. Artificers get specialized bonuses for working in the Artificery and experimentation.

Basic help and assistance

Magistery Rank	Base Earnings per week
Apprentice	10gp
Disciple	15gp
Adept+	20gp

Experimentation

Experimentation is only available to Disciples and above, and involves a bit of chance. You may attempt to experiment using Arcana, any of your tool proficiencies, or Performance, and the result of your check will determine your earnings.

Check Result	Earnings
1-5	3gp
6-10	7gp
11-20	15gp
21+	35gp

Crafting

The general rules for crafting are you can craft any item you desire from the standard list up to "very rare" and the cost & time requirements are as follows, including the amount of time it may take to develop, research, or recover a recipe, crafting method, or other instruction to create an object of magical power:

Rarity	Time to craft	Time to Research	Cost in materials
Common	1 weeks	1 day	50 gp + base material cost
Uncommon	4 weeks	1 week	200 gp + base material cost
Rare	20 weeks	2 weeks	2,000 gp + base material cost
Very Rare	50 weeks	3 weeks	20,000 gp + base material cost
Legendary	100 weeks	4 weeks	100,000 gp + base material cost

Note, the above times are for Apprentices, as they have less free time than Disciples and above to pursue personal interests. Graduating to Disciple will not change the material costs, but would reduce the amount of time it requires to craft these items. Additionally, these are total weeks of work, and could be divided among multiple crafters. Generally, wealthy adventurers don't wait 2 years to craft a legendary item, they might contract 19 helpers and craft it in 5 weeks (although you would have to pay 19 skilled artisans a month's salary...so it's a give and take)

Crafting a +1 Plate Mail (Rare) for instance would take an apprentice 20 weeks, and cost them 2000gp if they already have plate mail. If they don't already have plate mail, they would first have to obtain plate mail for 1500 gp, and then craft magical enchantments upon it for a total of 3500 gold and 20 weeks (but 19 Armor Class!). Please note that this will also require proficiency in the appropriate tools for the object being enchanted (e.g. jewelry tools for enchanting a ring)

Equipment can be upgraded with various precious metals to provide specific benefits.

Material	Weight	Strength	Benefit	Cost
Steel	Steel	Steel	Typical non-magical weapon or armor	Base Material (no extra)
Mithral	Aluminum	Steel	Mithral is a light, flexible metal. If armor normally imposes disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks or has a Strength requirement, the mithral version of the armor doesn't.	500 gp
Adamantine	Steel	Tungsten Carbide	If cast into armor, any critical hit against you becomes a normal hit. If cast into a weapon, any successful attack roll to an object or mechanical construct is a critical hit.	500 gp

Here are some proficiencies you will need for crafting equipment, expertise in the skill will halve the crafting time required:

Proficiency	Items
Herbalism kit	Antitoxin, potion of healing
Leatherworker’s tools	Leather armor, boots
Smith’s tools	Armor, weapons
Weaver’s tools	Cloaks, robes
Woodcarver's tools	Ammunition, arrows, bolts

Crafting Wondrous items may require special, specific ingredients.

Crafting healing potions are slightly different than normal crafting (and requires proficiency with a herbalism kit):

Type	Time	Cost
Healing (2d4 + 2 hp)	1 day	25gp
Greater Healing (4d4 + 4)	1 week	100gp
Superior Healing (8d4 + 8)	3 weeks	1,000gp
Supreme Healing (10d4 + 20)	4 weeks	10,000gp

Selling a Magic Item

NOTE: SELLING A MAGIC ITEM MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Selling a magic item is by no means an easy task. Con artists and thieves are always looking out for an easy score, and there’s no guarantee that a character will receive a good offer even if a legitimate buyer is found.

Resources. A character can find a buyer for one magic item by spending one workweek and 25 gp, which is used to spread word of the desired sale. A character must pick one item at a time to sell.

Resolution. A character who wants to sell an item must make a Charisma (Persuasion) check to determine what kind of offer comes in. The character can always opt not to sell, instead forfeiting the workweek of effort and trying again later. Use the Magic Item Base Prices and Magic Item Offer tables to determine the sale price.

Rarity	Base Price*	Time to Sell	Cost to Attempt
Common	100 gp	1 day	10 gp
Uncommon	400 gp	1 week	25 gp
Rare	4,000 gp	2 weeks	250 gp
Very Rare	40,000 gp	3 weeks	2500 gp
Legendary	200,000 gp	4 weeks	5000 gp

*Generally halved for consumable items like potions

**Rare, Very Rare, and Legendary item sales are extremely difficult and have increasingly high likelihoods of complication.

Scrolls:

Scroll Level	Base Price
Cantrip	30 gp
1st	50 gp
2nd	500 gp
3rd	1,000 gp
4th	5,000 gp
5th	10,000 gp
6th	30,000 gp
7th*	50,000 gp
8th*	100,000 gp
9th*	500,000 gp

*Selling scrolls of 7-9th level is extremely difficult and has a high likelihood of complication

Magic Item Offers:

Persuasion Result	Offer
1-10	50% of Base Price
11-20	100% of Base Price
21+	150% of Base Price

Training

Training is an exclusive task that consumes all available free time, but is also not something that requires contiguous work, meaning you can spend 10 weeks training with animal handling, and then switch to carousing for a few weeks, and then continue training animal handling where you left off.

Skills

In general, skills are free to learn. There are minor costs associated with buying the right attire, or basic supplies but they are generally provided for by your teacher because while learning the skill, you are also providing free labor to your master who is teaching you the skill. If you are already proficient in a skill, you may train it again and gain expertise with it. The amount of time for training a new skill proficiency (or expertise if you are already proficient) is below:

Skill Proficiency	Time to train
Acrobatics	50 weeks
Animal Handling	50 weeks
Arcana	40 weeks
Athletics	60 weeks
Deception	50 weeks
History	40 weeks
Insight	50 weeks
Intimidation	50 weeks
Investigation	50 weeks
Medicine	50 weeks
Nature	50 weeks
Perception	50 weeks
Performance	50 weeks
Persuasion	50 weeks
Religion	40 weeks
Sleight of Hand	50 weeks
Stealth	50 weeks
Survival	50 weeks
Tools	Varies

Tools

Gaining proficiency with a tool is significantly shorter than with other skills, but requires more investment due to the increase in material consumption for practice, and the lack of valuable product that can be gained by learning (as an example, training in animal handling is free because while you are learning to handle animals, you are also caring for animals and basically paying for yourself, whereas learning how to smith, you will make some really shitty swords wasting a lot of material that nobody wants).

The tool proficiencies are as follows:

Tool	Cost	Time to train*
Alchemist's supplies	100 gp	12 weeks
Brewer's supplies	40 gp	16 weeks
Calligrapher's Supplies	20 gp	12 weeks
Carpenter's tools	20 gp	8 weeks
Cartographer's tools	30 gp	12 weeks
Cobbler's tools	10 gp	8 weeks
Cook's utensils	3 gp	8 weeks
Disguise Kit	100 gp	24 weeks
Forgery Kit	60 gp	24 weeks
Gaming Set	20gp	8 weeks
Glassblower's tools	60 gp	8 weeks
Herbalism Kit	10 gp	8 weeks
Jeweler's tools	150 gp	12 weeks
Land and Water Vehicles	80 gp	12 weeks
Leatherworker's tools	20 gp	8 weeks
Mason's tools	30 gp	8 weeks
Musical Instruments	10gp	24 weeks
Navigator's tools	50 gp	32 weeks
Painter's supplies	20 gp	8 weeks
Poisoner's kit	150 gp	32 weeks
Potter's tools	20 gp	10 weeks
Smith's tools	100 gp	10 weeks
Thieves' tools	75 gp	24 weeks
Tinker's tools	100 gp	12 weeks
Weaver's tools	5 gp	8 weeks
Woodcarver's tools	5 gp	8 weeks

Unlike other skills, gaining a tool expertise (double proficiency bonus) costs double the training time, but the material cost is the same.

As an example, Proficiency with Smith's tools costs 100 gp and takes 10 weeks of downtime. A pre-requisite to Expertise is Proficiency, so once you gain proficiency in Smith's tools, you are now eligible to train Expertise, which takes twice the time, but the same additional cost. So after you have proficiency with Smith's Tools, you can spend an additional 100 gp and 20 weeks of downtime to gain expertise in Smith's Tools. This provides you with twice your proficiency bonus with any check associated with those tools, and it also allows you to use them for crafting with higher efficiency, halving any crafting time associated with them.

Tool Proficiency: X gold, Y weeks Tool Expertise: Prerequisite: Tool Proficiency in the same tool, X gold, and 2*Y weeks.

Languages

Learning a new language is a skill that can be done exclusively or non-exclusively. Exotic languages must be trained exclusively, as they are not spoken with regularity in the real world, however common languages can be learned alongside other activities. (The assumption here is that common languages you can practice with other Magisters, students, and people outside of the Magistery). When training a language exclusively, your time to train it is halved, however you cannot do any other skill alongside learning a language. Training it non-exclusively takes longer, but allows you the freedom to also pursue other training, crafts, or any other downtime activity.

Common Languages

Language	Script	Typical Speakers	Exclusive time to train	Non-exclusive time to train
Common	Common	Humans	52 weeks	104 weeks
Dwarvish	Dwarvish	Dwarves	52 weeks	104 weeks
Elvish	Elvish	Elves	52 weeks	104 weeks
Giantish	Dwarvish	Giants, Ogres	52 weeks	104 weeks
Gnomish	Dwarvish	Gnomes	52 weeks	104 weeks
Halfing	Common	Halfings	52 weeks	104 weeks
Orc	Dwarvish	Orcs	52 weeks	104 weeks

Exotic Languages

Exotic languages can only be trained exclusively, as it is far more difficult to practice while doing other things. Some of the exotic languages here are not possible to learn through ordinary means, but are listed anyway because there may be special circumstances in which learning one is possible.

Language	Script	Typical Speakers	Time to train
Abyssal	Infernal	Demons	60 weeks
Celestial	Celestial	Celestials	60 weeks
Draconic	Draconic	Dragons	40 weeks
Deep Speech	?	?	?
Infernal	Infernal	Devils	50 weeks
Primordial	Dwarvish	elementals	50 weeks
Sylvan	Elvish	Fey	50 weeks
Undercommon	Elvish	Drow / Duergar	50 weeks
Thieves' Cant2	N/A	N/A	N/A
Druidic3	N/A	Druids	N/A
Old Tongue4	Dwarvish	Disuse	50 weeks
Katrin5	Heiroglyphs	Katrin	50 weeks

• ¹Time to train expertise is double the normal training time, but halves future crafting time with those tools and doubles the proficiency bonus with it.
• ²Thieves Cant is not exactly a language, but a secondary function of other languages to relay secret messages within plain speech using a series of ticks, motions, and cues to signify words to ignore or pay special attention to. Generally speaking in thieves cant requires twice as long to relay a message, however anyone not paying close attention and also having knowledge of Thieves Cant would have no way to decipher the code.
• ³Druidic is a very secretive language that is only known to druids, using their own Druidic script.
• ⁴The Old Tongue is an ancient language that has been replaced entirely by Common, except in some old architecture and original texts. Learning the old tongue requires prior fluency of any language that uses the Dwarvish script.
• ⁵Katrin is a language unique to Eomas, spoken almost exclusively by the Katrin near the base foothills of Mithaniel Marr, it is an uncommon language, although some merchants and traders are versed, few outside of the Katrin themselves are fluent.

Weapons

Training with weapons can be challenging, but allow you all of the benefits of gaining proficiency with a particular weapon, similar to the Weapons Master feat. Simple and Martial weapons are listed in the PHB, but "Special" weapons take extra time. These are weapons typically of the wrong size, or extremely specialized use, and may require reforging or redesigning the weapon itself in order to be used.

Weapon Type	Time to Train
Simple	10 weeks
Martial	14 weeks
Special	18 weeks

Relaxing

Sometimes, the best thing a character can do between adventures is relax. Whether a character wants a hard-earned vacation or needs to recover from injuries, this is the ideal option for adventurers who need a break. Relaxation requires two weeks, and costs 4 gold. (You are paying for a modest lifestyle away from the Magistery on a vacation).

Relaxation will gain you advantage against Diseases and Poisons. In addition, at the end of the week, you can end one effect that prevents you from regaining hit points or restore one ability score that has been reduced to below its normal value, unless the harmful effect is caused by a spell or other magical effect with an ongoing duration.

Gambling

NOTE: GAMBLING MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Gambling is always fun! Except when you lose. Gambling always requires 1 week of downtime, and a minimum of 100 gp and a maximum of 1,000 gp wagered. You must make a series of successes vs. a randomized difficulty using several skills. The first check you make is an Insight check, followed by Deception, and lastly an Intimidation check. The DC for all three of these checks is 5 + 2d10 (each check's DC will be different). The results of a week of gambling may be as follows:

# of Successes	Result
0	Lose your wager, accrue debt equal to your wager
1	Lose half your wager
2	Gain half your wager
3	Gain double your wager

note that gambling assumes you have spent your original wager, so betting 100 gold and getting 3 successes means you walk out with 200.

Wrestling

The Eternal Order has been blacklisted by the Solace Coterie Regulations for Extreme Wrestling (SCREW) for conducting affairs outside of the organization's purview. The EO will have to make recompense if they wish to partake in any future SCREW events, such as the Directive to Raise Influence for Vulnerable Elves events which fundraise for the care of orphaned elven children (commonly known as the SCREW DRIVE).

NOTE: WRESTLING MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Pit fighting requires 4 weeks of effort, including wrestling, and the promotion that you have to participate in for a tournament. You must make a series of successes vs. a randomized difficulty using several skills. The first check you make is an Athletics check, followed by an Acrobatics check, and lastly an Insight check. The DC for all three of these checks is 5+2d10 (each check's DC will be different). The results of a week of wrestling is as follows:

# of Successes	Result
0	Lose your bouts, gain nothing
1	Win 50 gp
2	Win 100 gp
3	Win 200 gp

Research

NOTE: RESEARCH MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Any type of research takes 4 weeks, and you can specify a person, place, or thing to research. An appropriate Intelligence check will be made depending on the topic of research (Arcana, History, Investigation, Nature, or Religion). Members of the Magistery have advantage on Arcana and History checks, and any check may gain a +1 bonus per 100 gp expended (this is due to bribes and greasing the wheels for independent information gathering outside of the Magistery).

Check Result	Level of information gained
1-10	You learn one useful piece of lore
11-20	You learn two useful pieces of lore
21+	You learn three useful pieces of lore

Scribing Spell Scroll(s)

With time and patience, a spellcaster can transfer a spell to a scroll, creating a spell scroll. This activity represents the time and effort it takes to produce such an item. You must be able to cast the spell, and have proficiency in Arcana, and all of the material components that may be required. After which, you may expend gold and time to craft a spell scroll:

Spell Level	Cost	Time
Cantrip	15 gp	1 day
1st	25 gp	1 day
2nd	250 gp	1/2 week
3rd	500 gp	1 week
4th	2,500 gp	2 weeks
5th	5,000 gp	4 weeks
6th	15,000 gp	8 weeks
7th	25,000 gp	16 weeks
8th	50,000 gp	32 weeks
9th	250,000 gp	48 weeks

Similar to other crafting tasks, this is not a self-restricted item, so if you had assistants you could scribe scrolls faster, the 96 weeks can be done by 4 people, making the task only take 4 people a total of 24 weeks in real time to complete.

Carousing

NOTE: CAROUSING MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Carousing covers 4 weeks of fine food, strong drink, and socializing. A character can attempt to carouse among lower-, middle-, or upper-class folk. A character can carouse with the lower class for 25 gp to cover expenses, or 100 gp for the middle class. Carousing with the upper class requires 500 gp for the month and access to the local nobility. A character with the noble background can mingle with the upper class, but other characters need an introduction. After a month of carousing, a character stands to make contacts within the selected social class. You can make a Persuasion check and gain the following contacts:

Check Result	Contacts gained
1-5	1 Hostile Contact
6-10	No Contacts
11-15	1 Allied contact
16-20	2 Allied contacts
21+	3 Allied contacts

Religious Service

NOTE: RELIGIOUS SERVICE MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Religious folk might wish to spend their downtime in service to a temple. This activity has the chance of winning the favor of the temple’s leaders. Religious service costs 4 weeks of time, and you must make either a Religion or a Persuasion check. The result of the check determines the benefits of service:

Check Result	Favor Earned
1-10	No effect
11-20	You earn one favor
21+	You earn two favors