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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 2842445" data-attributes="member: 11146">Question re: the QoE has been answered; scroll up a couple of posts for my decision.Is anyone waiting for me to cull through the remaining sourcebooks before announcing what other gear they want to stock up on before starting on the journey?  If so, let me know what book(s) you might be eyeing and I'll do those today.  Thus far, I have the following characters purchasing the following items:Zarra--spelunker's kit, 5 more days of rations and 1 more waterskinBlite--winter blanket, whetstone, grappling hook, another waterskin, 5 days more trail rations, a belt pouch, a sack and 2 vials of anti-toxinPrixo--probably some food and water of a currently undecided quantity, some cloth bagsHael--food rationsLyssa--couple of skins of wine and water as well as as two ten days of trail rations [not sure what "two ten days of trail rations" means, nor a "couple" of skins of wine and water, but I don't have a problem with any of it, so please feel free to specify a quantity, pay for it if you haven't already and edit it in to your character sheet in the RG]Alex--MW climber's kit, 4x 50 ft lengths of silk rope and a backpackVoadam, with regard to Survival checks to forage for food and potable water, I plan to pretty much follow the RAW in the PHB.  With the exception of Ardyth and Alex, who are human, everyone is an Underdark native and therefore should be familiar with and willing to eat whatever "food" is found along the way if you all run out of food...fungus of one variety or another, spiders, monsters, etc..  Some of the characters will no doubt exhibit a certain degree of disdain for foraged food--that's natural and I'd be surprised if it were otherwise.  Even Ardyth and Alex will be able to eat foraged food from the Underdark.  They may not find it to their taste or may be disgusted by it, but in most cases it will be edible for them.  No doubt we'll see some roleplay when or if it comes around to that point.  I have to ask, though, was there a particular reason you're asking about survival checks to find food/water in the Underdark?</blockquote>

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