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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2787157" data-attributes="member: 12332">Mithril Chain Shirt PJs are pretty much a must-have item.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  In my experience, 9 times out of 10, if the GM is role-playing out setting up camp, you're going to be jumped by a dozen ninjas in the middle of the night with naught to hand but a table leg.  I once played a Goblin Rogue by the name of Grimbold The Mighty.  We were out in the wilderness, setting up camp ... so I grabbed the marker and started drawing out the camp in loving detail for the GM:  Tents, camp-fire, where the horses were picketed, etc.  I described Grimbold carefully digging out a small pit trap in front of his tent, setting a few spikes at the bottom, and covering it with thin sticks and leaves.And then explained that Grimbold would take his thin old blanket he'd had for years and sneak off into the woods about forty feet away and crawl under a hollow log and go to sleep.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Everybody got a kick out of that.And, of course, the camp was attacked in the night by bandits and monsters.  And I looked up the rules for how noisy a pitched battle was, what the DC would be from 40' out in the surrounding woods, and given Grimbold's 8 Wis and 0 Ranks in Listen ... he slept through the whole thing.--fje</blockquote>

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