pdzoch
Explorer
So I am about to run a campaign with an austere environment and I am refreshing my memory on the rules for food and water consumption, travel distance, weather impacts, and exhaustion.
However, I’ve come across a weird incongruity in the rules regarding feeding requirements.
According to the DM’s Guide, a medium creature requires a pound of food and a gallon of water per day.
However, the rations, which provide food for one day, weighs 2 lbs. (Player’s Handbook). I suppose I can assume that the extra pound is due to packaging (excessive apparently).
Then when I look at large creatures, like a horse, they require 4 pounds of food and 4 gallons of water per day. But the feed for animals weigh 10 lbs per day of feed. Granted, the feed in very generalized and does not account for the different types of animals.
The foraging rules work well with the food and water weight consumption requirements.
I think what I will do is reduce the weight of the rations to 1lb per day of food to match consumption rates.
And I will do the same for feed for the size of the animal the feed is for: 4 (instead of 10 lbs) pounds for large animals like horses and camels, but a huge animal like an elephant the feed would weight 16 lbs. I’m not sure if I will adjust the costs also, but it makes sense that I should.
Has anyone else noticed this incongruity?
How has anyone else managed food weight requirements (especially in an austere environment)?
However, I’ve come across a weird incongruity in the rules regarding feeding requirements.
According to the DM’s Guide, a medium creature requires a pound of food and a gallon of water per day.
However, the rations, which provide food for one day, weighs 2 lbs. (Player’s Handbook). I suppose I can assume that the extra pound is due to packaging (excessive apparently).
Then when I look at large creatures, like a horse, they require 4 pounds of food and 4 gallons of water per day. But the feed for animals weigh 10 lbs per day of feed. Granted, the feed in very generalized and does not account for the different types of animals.
The foraging rules work well with the food and water weight consumption requirements.
I think what I will do is reduce the weight of the rations to 1lb per day of food to match consumption rates.
And I will do the same for feed for the size of the animal the feed is for: 4 (instead of 10 lbs) pounds for large animals like horses and camels, but a huge animal like an elephant the feed would weight 16 lbs. I’m not sure if I will adjust the costs also, but it makes sense that I should.
Has anyone else noticed this incongruity?
How has anyone else managed food weight requirements (especially in an austere environment)?