Comment on “Where You Eat Matters”

I don't know if this is how you roll, but could you elaborate on how you would actually run the "half the day is wasted" result? Say they're in a market city: do you just ask everyone but those characters what they're doing today, then when everyone else is done say it's the afternoon and go around again, including the previously langorous ones?

I suppose this is butting up against "how is the flow of time handled in your game," an altogether larger question since it also ties into the core DM skill of managing tension.

In my experience, specific time units or divisions get tricky once you start trying to subdivide smaller than days but larger than single hours. And single hours are tough unless you typically track everything in hours -- travel time and so on. I think it's all well and good to do something like "you can collectively visit 1 shopkeeper per day per player in the party," on the other hand. Maybe attach another rule about how an hour passes between each visit, or what have you.