Downtime Activities

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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.

The categories of Downtime include:

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

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:

Rarity	Time to craft	Cost in materials
Common	2 weeks	50 gp + base material cost
Uncommon	10 weeks	200 gp + base material cost
Rare	100 weeks	2,000 gp + base material cost
Very Rare	200 weeks	20,000 gp + base material cost
Legendary	1000 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 20 years to craft a legendary item, they might contract 19 helpers and craft it in 1 year (although you would have to pay 19 skilled artisans a year's salary...so it's a give and take)

Crafting a +1 Plate Mail for instance would take an apprentice 10 weeks, and cost them 200gp 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 1700 gold and 30 days (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)

Crafting healing potions are slightly different than normal crafting:

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

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
Tool	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 Proficiency	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
Glassblower’s tools	60 gp	8 weeks
Jeweler’s tools	150 gp	12 weeks
Leatherworker’s tools	20 gp	8 weeks
Mason’s tools	30 gp	8 weeks
Painter’s supplies	20 gp	8 weeks
Potter’s tools	20 gp	10 weeks
Smith’s tools	100 gp	10 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 twice as much time, although the material consumption is the same, so if you had no training in jeweler's tools, it would take you 150 gold and 12 weeks to become proficient, but if you wanted to go straight to expert, it cost 300 gold and 36 weeks in total to do so.

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' Cant	N/A	N/A	N/A
Druidic	N/A	Druids	N/A
Old Tongue	Dwarvish	Disuse	50 weeks *
Katrin	Heiroglyphs	Katrin	50 weeks

• The Old Tongue requires prior fluency of any language that also uses the Dwarvish script.

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

NOTE: WRESTLING MAY INCUR COMPLICATIONS

Pit fighting only requires 1 week of effort, but scheduled tournaments are only once a month. 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
1-5	You learn nothing
6-10	You learn one useful piece of lore
11-20	You learn two useful pieces of lore
21+	You learn three useful pieces of lore

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.

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

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 week
2nd	150 gp	2 weeks
3rd	500 gp	4 weeks
4th	2,500 gp	6 weeks
5th	5,000 gp	8 weeks
6th	15,000 gp	12 weeks
7th	25,000 gp	24 weeks
8th	50,000 gp	48 weeks
9th	250,000 gp	96 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.

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.