Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubis" data-source="post: 412526" data-attributes="member: 2358">Actually, those weights are quite a bit on the high side, not the low side.  Basics for surviving in a wilderness area is, simply put, clothes.  (This is usually around 8 lbs.)  For surviving in the wilderness for enough food for a week would mean clothes, backpack, sacks (I go with one sack per fifty pounds able to be carried over 100, so a character who can carry 200 pounds gets two sacks.), waterskin, bedroll, and seven trail rations.  (This usually weighs about 27 pounds stright, less than that depending on how many clerics or rangers are in the party.  Rangers can hunt for food, making is unnecessary to carry as much, and clerics of Level 5 or above can create all the food and water as is needed, negating the use of having trail rations.)  Rings of Sustenance go even further.I know this because I DO keep track of individual supplies.  It not as much of a pain as you would think, not if you use a computer during gameplay.  I keep a list of how much food the party has and divide the weight up amongst the members, and everything else is written on the character sheets.I could reveal the format for this is anyone is interested in detail without trouble.  Just my thoughts on it, it's how I run my games, by the book but without the trouble. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

Verification