Begin with what the character chose
A damaged pottery delivery belongs to crafting or business. Build the incident around the existing activity and the character involved.
Campaign & story
Downtime Incident
Generator
One chosen activity.
A cost and an opportunity.
A personal story to follow.
Individual subscription accessIn Desktop Control Centre
An event that belongs to the activity
Give downtime a focused personal story.
Follow one incident from its cause to a meaningful way forward.
Leave room for a useful response
Include a real cost and a worthwhile opportunity. Offer several resolutions while the player and table decide how the downtime turns out.
Everyday activity, personal consequences
Choose where the incident begins.
A town square brings together tavern life, craftwork, training, cards and a disrupted delivery. Choose the activity that matches your character downtime: social life, business, crafting, training, drinking, gambling, romance, property, family, faction work, crime or research.
Set the severity from a minor incident through a complication, trouble, serious incident, crisis or life-changing event. Keep the cause and opportunity tied to that activity.
What you can prepare
A cause. A cost. Several ways forward.
Keep the activity and character at the centre of the incident.
Begin with the chosen activity
Prepare an incident for social life, business, crafting, training, drinking, gambling, romance, property, family, faction work, crime or research.
Choose the severity
Set a minor incident, complication, trouble, serious incident, crisis or life-changing event. Match the scale to the stretch of downtime you are preparing.
Name the character and tone
Describe whose downtime it is and choose a mixed, comic or serious tone. Keep the event connected to what the character is doing.
Give the incident a cause
Prepare a fitting cause and immediate effect. Make the disruption feel personal to the chosen activity rather than like an unrelated accident.
Make the costs clear
Include costs in time and money as part of the story. Your table decides the checks, payment and actual outcome.
Find a useful opportunity
Look beyond the immediate disruption. Give the character an opening that can make dealing with the incident worthwhile.
Offer several resolutions
Prepare different ways to address the situation. Let the player choose a response and the table decide how it turns out.
Carry a consequence forward
Include what happens later and a future hook. Keep one focused incident connected to the next part of the character story.
Refine and keep versions
Edit individual sections, lock useful details and make selective changes. Save incidents and versions, then reopen the activity, cause, costs and leads.
Choose the view you share
Copy, download or print the complete Dungeon Master view or the separate player-facing result. Review hidden causes and private context before sharing.
Cause, immediate effect and opportunity
Find the cost and the way forward.
A broken wagon raises questions about the cause, repair costs and next route. Describe the character activity, choose its severity and create the incident.
Review the immediate effect, time and money costs, opportunity and resolutions. Refine individual sections; your table decides checks, payment and outcome.
Quick setup. Deeper preparation.
Choose the scale and tone of the personal story.
Prepare one useful incident without planning the whole downtime period.
Start with the activity
Describe what the character is doing, choose the activity and severity, then create the incident with its cause, costs and opportunity.
Name whose downtime it is
In deeper preparation, name the character and choose a mixed, comic or serious tone that suits the campaign.
Add boundaries and context
Include things to avoid and private Dungeon Master context. Review how the cause and consequence fit the existing story.
Keep the useful sections
Edit the result, lock useful details and make selective changes. Save versions while trying another resolution or future lead.
Repair, agreement and a next step
Let the incident leave something to follow.
A harbour community repairs a wagon, reaches an agreement and prepares another shipment. The immediate disruption can lead to an opportunity as well as a cost.
Prepare several ways to resolve the situation, what happens later and a future hook. Use the material as a focused story around the activity; keep character decisions and the final outcome at the table.
Saved incidents and table references
Keep the cause, costs and leads together.
Reopen the chosen version and select the view your audience needs.
Saved downtime incidents
Save and reopen incidents with the activity, cause, costs, opportunity, resolutions, later consequence and future hook together.
Versions and locked sections
Edit individual sections, lock useful material and make selective changes. Save versions as you refine the story.
Dungeon Master and player views
Choose the complete Dungeon Master view or the separate player-facing result. Review hidden causes and private context before sharing.
Copy, download and print
Copy the chosen view, download it or print a table reference. Keep the possible resolutions within reach during the downtime scene.
Your desktop and related products
Keep downtime beside your campaign tools.
Open your products through your account and use the incident at the table.
Desktop Control Centre
Open your VISINVOKE products through one signed-in Windows desktop workspace.
Combat PRO
Use the dedicated encounter workspace for combat. Downtime Incident Generator prepares one personal downtime event without a Combat PRO handoff.
Artwork illustrates fictional downtime activities and related products, not application screens.
Questions and answers
Know what a downtime incident adds.
Activities, costs, possible responses, saved material and account access at a glance.
Which downtime activities can I use?
Social life, business, crafting, training, drinking, gambling, romance, property, family, faction work, crime and research. Describe what the character is doing so the incident, costs and opportunity belong to that activity.
What does an incident contain?
The character and activity, incident, tone and severity, cause, immediate effect, time and money costs, opportunity, several ways to resolve it, later consequence and a future hook.
Does this plan a whole period of downtime?
It prepares one event during one chosen activity. Keep the rest of the downtime with your table; use this incident when you want a focused personal story around that activity.
Who decides checks, payment and resolution?
Your table does. The result supplies narrative material and possible responses; it does not decide the activity outcome, rewrite a character backstory or start or change combat. There is no Combat PRO handoff.
Can I refine, save and share it?
Edit individual sections, lock useful details and make selective changes. Save incidents and versions, reopen them, and copy, download or print the full Dungeon Master view or separate player-facing result. Review hidden causes and private notes before sharing.
How do I access Downtime Incident Generator?
Open the Generators collection in Desktop Control Centre on Windows through your VISINVOKE account. Review individual subscription access and current pricing in your account. A free account is separate from paid generator access.
Continue in VISINVOKE
Your account. Your campaign tools.
Create a free VISINVOKE account or sign in to your existing account. Get Desktop Control Centre through your account installer page.
Open the Generators collection on Windows. Review current subscription and access details in your account.