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Timer provides a single ring when the specified time has endedOne hour timing capacityMeasures 2-1/2-inch diameter
> I can do this with an SCR, but my local hobby store has stopped carrying them. Any help is appreciated
Get one from somewhere else? Digi-key has damn near everything, and if you are willing to wait, still offers free shipping on orders received by SnailMail.
Lighting the LED is easy. Detecting the end of the kitchen timer's countdown is a pain, especially since you haven't described it in any way whatsoever.
Is it an hourglass-style egg timer? A standard mechanical timer? Something electronic and battery-powered? Built into your microwave?
Splitting the group turns adventuring into a soap opera. Give them what they've asked for but reinforce that in an apocalypse, there's safety in numbers.
Obtain a kitchen timer. Have scenarios for both groups that do not overlap, but the catch is you will alternate between groups every 5 minutes.
You will get a work out.
So will they.
5 minutes isn't enough time to get fully distracted by their cellphones, etc. and forces them to be on their toes while missing out. You probably will be in the middle of combat when you hear the ding. Stop anyway. You need to make them want to get back together, so the next step is critical.
Each group finds stuff that would really help the other group. And there needs to be someone (a wandering merchant, pilgrims, etc) who will trade the item for something that group would like, but of a much lesser value.
Example: the group without a sorcerer finds a scroll of the next spell level (if he can cast level 3 spells, then it's level 4 spells). If that group has the cleric, then they bump into pilgrims who would like to destroy the evil sorcery spells and offers them a scroll of 1st and 2nd level cleric spells as a trade. Yeah, 2nd level spells that you can use may seem little for 4th level spells you can't use, but you can use the 2nd level spells. Always trade down.
You may hear the other group say stuff like, "No dude, I can so totally use that." at which point, you remind them they are meta gaming. Really sell the active PCs on "It's your decision, and it may not be as high a level trade, but is it useful to you?"
At this point, you may find in your next session that they have decided without you, to try and regroup so that they can exchange stuff only to split up after the meet up.
Have a really challenging encounter (Epic challenge) ready. As the PCs are trading equipment, let the games begin. Epic dude(s) surprise(s) them as they are distracted trading stuff.
They are in an apocalyptic environment, and you should reinforce it's not safe to be unprepared. Meeting up with the other group to rummage through your backpack for the crystal ball, the wand of fireballs, and the dagger +2 is time consuming and leaves you exposed. It's one thing to pick up a weapon off a dead body, it's another thing to open a "trading post" in the middle of nowhere.
Simple and easy solution, buy 1 or more kitchen timers.
It seriously helped me out. I would think of an arbitrary time for whatever task I would do (or just give myself some time), set it, then go to work. I have no experience with grad school, but this very simple device actually helped with my sense of time.
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