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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8549870" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Except... you spend X days performing an activity--hunting/gathering--and you gain 1 Supply, no matter how long a period of time you spent on it. You spend one day hunting/gathering, you gain 1 Supply. You spend 10 days hunting, you gain 1 Supply. Or two, if you roll a 20. So it literally doesn't make any sense to spend any longer than one day hunting/gathering. Go any longer than that, and you're actually losing Supply, and there are many, many other activities that can be just as or more useful or just more fun. ("I spend the time busking." "You're in a forest with no intelligent beings in it." "I'm busking for the squirrels. So there" "...The squirrels listen for a while and then throw an acorn in your tip jar.")Maybe it meant to have been written "you gain 1 Supply for each day you spent on the activity," so if you spent 10 days hunting/gathering, you gain 10 Supply--enough to break even and keep your supply of Supply from shrinking. And I'd accept that. You killed a bear one day and got handfuls of berries and mushrooms the rest of the time. It evens out. It still isn't great, though, since you're hunting for exactly enough food for 1 person (or two, if you roll a 20). It honestly would make more sense to break out of journey time and actually RP hunting in order to bag a deer--unless you really don't think that starvation is going to be an issue at the time and thus are only doing enough hunting/gathering to stay even, or because your character doesn't have anything else to do during the journey montage.A few minutes of googling suggests that, at minimum--you kill a scrawny doe and have poor butchering skills--you'd get about 35pounds of meat from it. don't know what that is in Supply, but I'd be willing to say something like, make a DC X Survival roll to butcher it, and you get 1d4 Supply plus 1 for each point you roll over that DC, and if you crit fail, you get tainted meat. The only reason to not do this is because breaking out of montage time invites wandering monsters, getting lost, encountering hazards, and other unpleasantness. But if the party actually is hurting for food, then this makes a lot more sense than using the hunting/gathering activity.</blockquote>

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