I'll likely speed up things involving downtime based on the player's request.
It's very possible I will only have to make the change for one of my five players, in any case. He's a friend but lord he doesn't think about the decisions he makes for his characters and regrets them about 60% of the time and wants to retrain. You'd think he'd learn to read more than the first sentence of things sometimes.
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
Luckily 2 of my players do extensive research on their final build to make sure they need to do little to no retraining, another 2 just coast along and chill. It's this last one that's always picking something, realizing it isn't what he thought, and changing his mind 2 levels later. And I try my best to be accommodating.
Given that this campaign is supposed to take place during a summer, I think 1/4 the time for it being stuck to 1/4 the year makes sense.
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Since we're still learning PF2, when I ran Age of Ashes, I pretty much allowed free retraining whenever the PCs leveled up. It didn't create any problems, and it prevented punishing people - or sticking us with unintended house rules - as we learn how PF2 functions.
So for example, when we noticed the meaning of the Incapacitation trait for the first time, the spellcasters already had access to 4th level spells, I think - and the bard in particular had multiple spells that were affected. So we let him retrain a some spells on the spot, so he'd have other options, and started enforcing Incapacitation for all the spellcasters. (If we weren't doing free retraining, I'd have felt almost obligated to ignore Incapacitation, but now that we're used to it, I'm really glad we didn't have to go that way.)
Knowing we can fix things if a choice doesn't work out has made the group much more willing to try things out.
I'm just stretching out the festival to be the better part of a year. It's the first one that has occurred in 200 years, so I think it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
If we can already accept a season-long festival, extending it to >6 months isn't too bad.
Certainly not a bad idea! I may just do that regardless, my group tends to enjoy having some downtime to explore cities and do idle things around just for fun, not necessarily for retraining.
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The whole idea of downtime is sort of weird in the context of this AP because the adventure seems to happen while the PCs are doing their “day job.” If they're taking downtime are they also taking a leave of absence from the Edgewatch? If not, are they still spending “8 hours” a day on Watch duty PLUS doing downtime activities? It’s just sort of awkward.
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This isn't a problem unless you decide it is. Either assume it is on-the-job training, waive the time requirement altogether, or simply say "a week just passed, your retraining is finished".
Funny you mentioned retraining, because I generally don’t enforce retraining rules anyway, and in particular, I have a Ranger player who wanted her character to have an animal companion from level 1, so she built accordingly. Today we hit level 2 halfway through the session, and I let her replace her level 1 Ranger feat and take Beast Master Dedication at 2. This happened immediately between the menagerie and the pagoda, so no downtime at all.
The problem only exists if you insist retraining requires downtime of the specific sort that makes you miss adventure developments.
I wasn’t aware there was, by RAW any other kind of downtime. Like I said, I don’t enforce retraining rules anyway, but I thought that was a house rule, not some other kind of downtime covered in RAW.
