Say I’ve got two characters, Aleck and Brund, and another player (call her Jane) has two characters too, Cilla and Deb. If Jane and I play Aleck and Cilla in a session, do Brund and Deb still get Downtime actions even though they weren’t part of the preceding Score? I’ve been operating on the assumption that PCs only get Downtime Activities if they were present in the session but looking at the rules I don’t see anywhere that says that specifically.
Here’s a related question: if Jane the player is absent from a session, do either of her characters get Downtime Activities? Seems like that falls more into house rule territory than the other question but I can’t find anything addressing it in the book either.
I tend to only give characters downtimes if they were involved in the score, since downtime is sort of part of the essential loop for recovering from scores.
If a character was involved in a score, but misses the next session, then I tend to let them get caught up on their downtime activities, assuming they were doing it at roughly the same time as the other players.
Does that mean you tend to do a Score in one session and the connected Downtime in the next? I typically run a Free Play-Score-Downtime loop all in the same session.
Eli Kurtz It depends. The group I’m running now can only meet for two hours, which usually means about 1.5 hours of game time, so for us that usually means we only have time for a Score, downtime, or free play.