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So from a game design elegance thing - I think a focus pool and non-spell focus abilities is cleanest.

From keeping these separate - I really don't want to take a action that has an 80% chance to do nothing. Even if they made it so that you always rolled, even on the first, and it affected subsequent uses, that'd be significantly preferable.

Since Grapple isn't an attack roll, it reads that it doesn't suffer from Multiple Attack Penalty (but does contribute). Is this the intended functionality?

CompliantHornet wrote:

I'm unsure about how downtime is worded in this guide, and specifically the part that says Earn Income is resolved first.

To give an example: Would a Field Commissioned Agent be able to spend their 12 days of downtime after a scenario by using the 8 day block to Earn Income, and the 4 day block to start Retraining a Feat, then in their subsequent downtime spend the 8 day block finishing the Retraining and starting another one, finishing it during the 4 day block?

From the guide:

"Earning Income is the most common Downtime activity, though it is the last option to resolve. Complete any Crafting or Retraining before beginning Earn Income checks."

The guide says its resolved _last_ not _first_.

Right, but the guide also says that you spend the chunks discretely as units, and that's the only part that says resolve. I had read that as how to handle disparate downtimes as a GM expeditiously, not a restriction on the order in which you can perform them.

That said, I don't particularly disagree with your argument - I just think there are multiple valid readings, and that's why I posted here :)

I'm unsure about how downtime is worded in this guide, and specifically the part that says Earn Income is resolved first.

To give an example: Would a Field Commissioned Agent be able to spend their 12 days of downtime after a scenario by using the 8 day block to Earn Income, and the 4 day block to start Retraining a Feat, then in their subsequent downtime spend the 8 day block finishing the Retraining and starting another one, finishing it during the 4 day block?