Roleplaying Academia
Encourages treating the academia subsystem as a roleplaying backdrop, like a library hunt or prickly professor, not just a stack of checks.
Parent page Life in the Academy
The academia subsystem is at its best when the players and GM use the opportunity as a backdrop for roleplaying events and occurrences that highlight the reality of life at a magic academy, rather than just quickly rolling some skill checks and tallying up branch levels. Maybe one hero has to go on a hunt for a book that should be available in the library but has been lent out multiple times, while another must convince a straitlaced professor to allow them to conduct a potentially dangerous experiment. For more guidance on ideas for downtime events and how to intersperse them throughout downtime, refer to Running Downtime and Tasks and Events.
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