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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 641670" data-attributes="member: 2785">As both a DM and a player, I find that spending time worrying about how much food and water your characters possess is not only tedious but distracting from the roleplaying. In my game, my players are better than I am about keeping track of such things, but it's annoying to me as a DM. The only reason I haven't just told them "assume you always have the provisions you need" is encumbrance, because it is so ingrained into 3E. Encumbrance levels are important on the battlemat, making a real difference as to who's where and doing what.  Food is heavy. Tens days of food weighs ten pounds. For weaker characters that's important to note. I think. Is it? Do you gloss over such details, or do you religiously track them? If you track them, do you find that the bookkeeping undermines the roleplaying?</blockquote>