D&D Downtime Planner
Plan how your character spends downtime between adventures. Set a time and coin budget, add crafting, scroll scribing, and optional downtime activities, then resolve them into a shareable in-character log.
Plan the downtime
Set a budget, add the activities your character takes on, then resolve the plan into a log.
Ready when you are
Your downtime story will appear here.
Set your budget, add one or more activities, and resolve the plan to create a shareable in-character log.
About the Downtime Planner
This free D&D 5e downtime planner turns the weeks between adventures into a concrete plan and then resolves it. You set a budget of workweeks and gold, add downtime activities to a board, split your time and coin across them, and the tool rolls each one out into an in-character log you can drop straight into a session. It covers 13 downtime activities. Crafting an Item and Scribing a Spell Scroll follow your rules edition setting, using the SRD 5.2.1 time and material costs when it is set to 2024, and the other eleven, from Carousing and Crime to Research and Training, are optional downtime activities.
The planner keeps the bookkeeping honest so you do not have to. A running tally shows how many workweeks and how much gold each plan uses against your budget, and it flags you the moment a plan overspends. An optional character profile (level, Persuasion, Investigation) sharpens the skill-based outcomes. When you like a result, pin it to the Session Notebook, which is saved locally in your browser with no account or signup required.
Tips for Planning Downtime
- Set the budget before you add anything. A stretch of downtime is defined by how many workweeks and how much gold the party actually has; the board is only as useful as those two numbers are honest.
- Fill in the character profile for skill-based activities. Carousing, Research, and Crime lean on Persuasion or Investigation, so entering your real bonuses (or at least your level) makes the resolved outcomes match your table.
- Mix earners with spenders. Pair a Work or Gambling week against a Crafting or Training stretch so the plan reads like a believable month, not a single errand repeated.
- Treat a complication as a hook, not a punishment. When a resolved activity throws one, hand it to the party as the seed of a side quest instead of erasing it.
For how downtime fits into the rhythm of prepping a session, read the guide: The Session Prep Guide
Common Questions
- Is the Downtime Planner free?
- Yes. Every tool on Tools and Taverns is free, with no account, signup, or generation limit.
- Which downtime activities does it support?
- Thirteen activities. Crafting an Item and Scribing a Spell Scroll follow your rules edition (2014 or 2024). The rest are optional downtime activities: Buying and Selling a Magic Item, Carousing, Crime, Gambling, Pit Fighting, Relaxation, Religious Service, Research, Training, and Work. Each one explains what it does and what its gold field means as you add it.
- Do I need to know the downtime rules to use it?
- No. Every activity carries a plain-English description and a hint for what the gold field represents, so you can build a plan without flipping through the rulebook. The tool handles the resolution and writes up the result for you.
- Where is my downtime log saved?
- When you pin a result, it is saved to the Session Notebook, which lives locally in your browser. There is no account and nothing is stored on a server, so the log stays on the device where you created it.
- Can I use the results in my campaign or published work?
- Yes. Resolved downtime logs are yours to use in home games, streams, and published adventures; no attribution required.