So, I'm playing a druid for the first time, and I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to approach lifestyle expenses for downtime between adventures.
Right now, since she's level 2, I'm having her stay in town and work during her downtime, using the outcome tables in XGE to determine how successful her work is each week, if there are complications, and then subtracting living expenses for that time. But as she advances as a druid and becomes more in tune with nature, I don't know if it would make sense for her to stay in town. It's more likely that she would find a place out in nature to settle down and start forming some sort of garden/bestiary and then do her best to live off the land. But I have no idea how that would "cost" her anything, and I don't want to give her too much advantage over other PCs that have to spend their hard-earned coin just to live.
I was just wondering how other druids handle downtime so that I can approach the DM with several possible ideas on how to handle her downtime once she's able to commune with nature. The best I can come up with is to make my own "camping" tables like the ones in XGE, making a degree-of-success and complications table that she rolls against with a Survival check. Then if the DM agrees to it, that'll become her default downtime activity unless she decides to spend some time to do something more specific.
Anyway, any and all ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
You can play your Druid however you want. My Druid hates being in towns or cities with a passion so he tends to live off of the land during downtime. But even so he needs to buy some items in town that he can’t easily make himself. You can also play a Druid who loves the hustle and bustle of living in cities, the bigger the better. After all, there is nature everywhere.
My advice is do whatever is fun for you. There is a box on being self sufficient in the PHB and you can do that if you’re not living in town.
There is a box on being self sufficient in the PHB and you can do that if you’re not living in town.
Oh, thank you for reminding me of that. It took a while to track down (seriously, why aren't individual sourcebooks searchable?), but that's an interesting one: proficiency in survival means you can carve out a comfortable lifestyle.
Maybe I'll talk to the DM and see if she can spend some of her downtime living at the modest level and also doing something Druid-y, like communing with the local wildlife and rolling a table to see if she learns new beast shapes, or brewing healing potions that she can sell back in town.
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So, I'm playing a druid for the first time, and I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to approach lifestyle expenses for downtime between adventures.
Right now, since she's level 2, I'm having her stay in town and work during her downtime, using the outcome tables in XGE to determine how successful her work is each week, if there are complications, and then subtracting living expenses for that time. But as she advances as a druid and becomes more in tune with nature, I don't know if it would make sense for her to stay in town. It's more likely that she would find a place out in nature to settle down and start forming some sort of garden/bestiary and then do her best to live off the land. But I have no idea how that would "cost" her anything, and I don't want to give her too much advantage over other PCs that have to spend their hard-earned coin just to live.
I was just wondering how other druids handle downtime so that I can approach the DM with several possible ideas on how to handle her downtime once she's able to commune with nature. The best I can come up with is to make my own "camping" tables like the ones in XGE, making a degree-of-success and complications table that she rolls against with a Survival check. Then if the DM agrees to it, that'll become her default downtime activity unless she decides to spend some time to do something more specific.
Anyway, any and all ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
You can play your Druid however you want. My Druid hates being in towns or cities with a passion so he tends to live off of the land during downtime. But even so he needs to buy some items in town that he can’t easily make himself. You can also play a Druid who loves the hustle and bustle of living in cities, the bigger the better. After all, there is nature everywhere.
My advice is do whatever is fun for you. There is a box on being self sufficient in the PHB and you can do that if you’re not living in town.
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Oh, thank you for reminding me of that. It took a while to track down (seriously, why aren't individual sourcebooks searchable?), but that's an interesting one: proficiency in survival means you can carve out a comfortable lifestyle.
Maybe I'll talk to the DM and see if she can spend some of her downtime living at the modest level and also doing something Druid-y, like communing with the local wildlife and rolling a table to see if she learns new beast shapes, or brewing healing potions that she can sell back in town.