Hello!
One of my players in Carrion Crown did an aid another to help a character research one of the topics in the first part of Carrion Crown - standard procedure, roll a d4 for the amount of hours, roll a d20 and get results. As per the Carrion Crown guide, this can only be done once per day.
The assisting player then proceeded to do research on another topic on his own.
My question is: Should I count the assisting player as having done his daily research through the aid another action?
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That is exactly what my group did when we had to go through all of those libraries. It counted as that players research attempt but since the DC to aid is only 10, and they could make it untrained it made the DC's much easier. We kept rolling like rubbish and it took us 3 days to get ANY useful information between 3 players investing 8 hours a day of research between the various ones we had available.
My advice would be to let the player take the full normal 4 hours and give them a slight bonus for taking their time, otherwise you can end up idling days at a time with bad rolls.