Exalted Downtime Rules

Each swathe of downtime has several factors to it: Downtime Experience Points, Downtime Background Dots and Momentous Scenes.

Downtime Experience Points

Experience points gained from downtime are spent as normal Experience Points. Generally speaking, characters who have managed to earn more Experience Points than their age would normally suggest gain fewer Experience Points over the span of downtime.

Age	Normal Total	XP (Below Normal)	XP (Above Normal)
Exaltation to 99 years	Years x10 XP	5/year	10/year
100 - 249	10 XP per year past Exaltation	3/year	5/year
250 - 499	750 + 5/year past 249	2/year	4/year
500 - 999	1000 + 3/year past 499	2/year	3/year
1000+	1500 + 2/year past 999	1/year	2/year

Downtime Background Dots

Generally speaking, a character is likely to gain Background Dots equal to the normal amount of Experience Points gained during downtime (regardless of actual Experience Point total; i.e. always using the last column on the above table).

These Background dots are spent to reflect the sort of things the character engages in during that time: building a kingdom, fighting wars, spying on others and that sort of thing. These points are spent to purchase or increase Backgrounds.

Optional Rule: The Storyteller may permit a character that spends a significant portion of time meditating under the sun, contemplating his own Essence, to turn these points into Experience Points, on a one-to-one basis, which may be spent only on Virtues or Essence.

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