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[frankthedm]

So anyone think their players don't use enough pack animals as extra HP and warm bodies? I know it feels very unheroic, but monsters motivated by hunger won't mind a hobbled horse instead of heroic human. Other than for energy drainers, character levels don't add nutrition or flavor.

 

[rgard]

So anyone think their players don't use enough pack animals as extra HP and warm bodies? I know it feels very unheroic, but monsters motivated by hunger won't mind a hobbled horse instead of heroic human. Other than for energy drainers, character levels don't add nutrition or flavor.

It's a valid tactic you describe; staying alive is heroic enough in some campaigns.