Feature Suggestion: In-Game-Time Countdown Timer

[LanMan04]

I would LOVE a countdown timer that is not "real world" time, but "in game time".

• When the game is paused, the timer is paused.
• Each round of combat that passes counts the timer down 6 seconds.
• The timer is "aware" of large time skips (rests).

This would be extremely useful for things like "you roll 1d8 for every hour you are in the dungeon, if you roll a 1, a random encounter happens". Or "it's been a day hours, you need to eat".

My ideal in game timer system would do the following:

• Able to have multiple timers going simultaneously, with names to keep them straight.
• A timer can automatically start again once it reaches 0. This keeps with the "do something every hour of game time" scenario I described above.
• If a bunch of time is skipped at once (a long rest), show how many times the timer "went off" during the time skip.

[LanMan04]

There is an "in game reminder to eat timer" you may be able to lift a bunch of code from: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/burger-time

[Ulvtand]

This stopped being supported over two years ago. Is this feature no longer of interest?

[zeteticl]

@LanMan04 @Ulvtand

In my opinion, there are already very useful "in game-world clock" modules—like Sample Calendar and Small Time—that can pause and manage multiple world calendars, along with different modules and quests. Continuing to write further would only duplicate existing functionalities.

At the same time, since combat in D&D is only 6 seconds per round, three hours of real-time combat may translate to just one minute of in-game time, making tracking combat time potentially less useful.

Of course, if it records how many long rests the players have taken and how much real time has been spent on combat, I think that aligns better with the direction of my "real-time" tracking module.