I see. I guess I'll need to make learning a Camping ability to manage my stress with a priority, then. Having to camp 4 times to offset a single use of Wellspring of Magic definitely is never going to work out, especially since that doesn't even account for unavoidable Stress like from approaching the obelisk.Cimeries wrote:Entirely circumstantial. A night around a campfire with no food, luxuries or camping abilities will recover about 5 stress, assuming you aren't ambushed. Better conditions will grant more stress recovery, worse conditions will lower it and may even result in stress increasing.Shade wrote:Another question: what can we expect in terms of Stress recovery, especially without Camping skills that reduce Stress?
You will be able to buy food and drink to increase stress recovery during camp, and you'll have other ways to reduce it available if balance requires it.
That's good to know, thanks.Cimeries wrote:For example, one thing that should be noted: PCs will never act on their own, regardless of their affliction. I should have probably clarified this earlier.
Passively inflicting stress on others probably isn't going to happen either.
...although thinking about it, a simple Camping skill would be lame. Let's make Stress relief for Oz a bit more interesting!
For Science [ Passive ] [ ?? AP ]
-> To Oz, gaining new knowledge is strangely invigorating.
Oz receives a +2 bonus to any checks involving experimentation.
Furthermore, for each piece of knowledge gained by means of experimentation, Oz recovers 25 Stress. If Oz gains new knowledge when he is already at 0 Stress, he instead receives a buff that reduces all incoming Stress by 25% for one day per piece.
...although just in case this ends up being too expensive:
Calm Mind [ Camping ] [ ?? AP ]
-> Recovers 25 Stress.
If the party is ambushed while Oz is using this ability, the Stress recovery is negated, but he instead receives a +50% bonus to damage dealt for the duration of the battle. He doesn't take kindly to being disturbed when pondering to himself.