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PharmerBoy posted:I'm running into an issue with the study times in Masks of Nyarlethotep. I'm a player, and got specifically called out to study one tome (power roll resulting in character feeling a strong draw to read Pnakotic Manuscript). Trouble is, it has a 300 day read time, and we're currently running reading as requiring setting aside dedicated whole day reading time. As a result, I'm ending up back in hotel rooms reading while the other players are out adventuring, and out of game I've spent the last two sessions just sitting around in real life. Its already been dropped that the whole scenario takes place over the course of a year, so I feel like I've got to keep actively staying back to keep this thing on schedule. I've never run or read Masks but this is an enormous failure on the part of the GM. No player should have to sit there and do nothing for entire sessions. Reading should be allowed to happen during downtime, or, failing that, if the GM insists your character's gotta read that book and it's gotta take all day, then bring in your backup character ASAP while the first one chills back at the hotel reading. Why did everyone agree you need to read the book, by the way? If it's to learn a potential spell in the book, then rules as written, you find out what spells the book contains after an "initial reading" -- while the exact length of time this requires varies from hours to weeks, it's still a way shorter time frame than the full 45 weeks for the "full reading" -- and you can then choose to study one spell in particular, which might take a few weeks but is also a much shorter time frame than the full read.
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Dec 21, 2023 06:44
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