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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 8542927" data-attributes="member: 49017">If's going to depend on what's available in the environment to a large degree, as anything that isn't available will need to be carried in.Historical armies (and navies) tried to provide anything from 3lbs to 7lbs of rations per day to their soldiers, not including water. A fair average is around 5lbs, If you want water too, you're looking at a minimum of 20lbs per day for consumption, sanitation and cooking with, and if you want to stay healthy you need the half devoted to washing and cooking. Putting that together, adding in daily firewood, oil, and other consumables then a three day trip is pretty close to the upper limit if you can't resupply on the way. If anyone is thinking of taking pack animals, those require a lot of fodder and more water than humans. If you're willing to take them part of the way, slaughter them, and can preserve their meat then you can perhaps add a couple more days to that trip.If I had to do it, some sort of travois might be my solution, increasing the "carrying" capacity but also slowing the movement rate. Cut it off once you've emptied it, and you can possibly add a day or two to the trip.As the numbers I propose suggest, water is by some way the largest weight component on the consumable side. If that's available then there's a considerable extension to how far you could travel, probably doubling what you can do. But if there's water, there's probably something alive, and that may be edible, and possibly you can burn something you find and don't need firewood, and if you're good enough at foraging in an area you know then you could plausibly not need very much at all.Basically though, most games far underestimate how much people need to carry as consumables, and going for what is realistic is not necessarily fun if you want epic adventures in the most hostile terrain. Bearing in mind that underground races implies underground life (and other resources) I'd be more inclined to allow most areas to be hospitable enough once characters are familiar with them , and only a few to match the more hostile surface areas (such as deserts, tundra, and mountain ranges.</blockquote>

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