azmodean
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OOC: loading up on rations and feed for a mount, I'm looking at a donkey, it can carry 18 days worth of rations for me and feed for itself, which puts it at a light load, if it goes to a medium load it would restrict movement to 20' at whch point you might as well go to heavy load which I estimate would allow it to carry two months of food for itself and someone else, but that doesn't count water. The good news is that the vast majority of that is the donkey's food, so it could probably carry food for several people in addition to it's own load. In short, we will probably be restricted to a 20' movement due to the pack animals and will likely need to purchase several for the group. My apologies if you don't like all of this OOC exposition, but 1. it's not that important to me to roleplay purchasing supplies and 2. I really don't want to waste time going back and forth about this kind of thing IC, it could waste upwards of a week of posting. I'll either edit or post again with a suggestion after I get some numbers together.
Ok, if we all chip in for a cart and a mule, then it could carry enough food for itself and the entire party for about 6 months. That isn't taking water into account, but we're still in pretty good shape. mule is 8gp and a cart is 15 gp, so about 2gp each for that, but the food gets kind of pricey, about 90gp each for the full 6 months of rations, which I certainly don't have. However at two months it looks a bit more resonable for 30gp each, and we just have to turn around if we get a month away from civilisation. No idea what barrels of water would cost or how long they would support us in the desert, have to rely on Rystil for that info.
On that vein, could we get the info as an int or knowledge(nature) check? If not A'jardin will want to hunt down a sage in town to ask about it before we leave.
If we assume the water is pretty cheap and weighs about as much as the food for a day's worth of travel, a mule and cart could carry enough food and water for the entire party for about 3 months of travel (I know it might not be, just trying to make an estimate), which would put us in pretty decent shape. If it is much heavier, we could get two mules and a wagon, which actually doesn't increase the costs involved that much.
Another option is getting a horse (or horses) instead of a mule (or mules), which wouldn't be able to carry quite as much with the cart (or wagon) but would let us travel at 30'/round instead of 20'/round. A heavy horse and a cart would cost 27gp for each of us and carry 2 1/2 months worth of food and water (with the assumption that it weighs the same per day as the food), 2 heavy horses and a wagon would cost 55 gp each and be able to carry 3 1/3 months of food and water (with the same asumption).
Ok, if we all chip in for a cart and a mule, then it could carry enough food for itself and the entire party for about 6 months. That isn't taking water into account, but we're still in pretty good shape. mule is 8gp and a cart is 15 gp, so about 2gp each for that, but the food gets kind of pricey, about 90gp each for the full 6 months of rations, which I certainly don't have. However at two months it looks a bit more resonable for 30gp each, and we just have to turn around if we get a month away from civilisation. No idea what barrels of water would cost or how long they would support us in the desert, have to rely on Rystil for that info.
On that vein, could we get the info as an int or knowledge(nature) check? If not A'jardin will want to hunt down a sage in town to ask about it before we leave.
If we assume the water is pretty cheap and weighs about as much as the food for a day's worth of travel, a mule and cart could carry enough food and water for the entire party for about 3 months of travel (I know it might not be, just trying to make an estimate), which would put us in pretty decent shape. If it is much heavier, we could get two mules and a wagon, which actually doesn't increase the costs involved that much.
Another option is getting a horse (or horses) instead of a mule (or mules), which wouldn't be able to carry quite as much with the cart (or wagon) but would let us travel at 30'/round instead of 20'/round. A heavy horse and a cart would cost 27gp for each of us and carry 2 1/2 months worth of food and water (with the assumption that it weighs the same per day as the food), 2 heavy horses and a wagon would cost 55 gp each and be able to carry 3 1/3 months of food and water (with the same asumption).
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