Ferrix,
What sort of equipment are we likely to be able to pick up from the militia's stores? And roughly what gold piece equivalent are we looking at?
I've decided that Alton would be better off with a sling and bullets than with a shortbow. As he hasn't used the bow yet, do you have any objection to me swapping bow and arrows for sling and bullets?
The next upgrade would probably be from scale mail to chain mail, which is a 100gp price hike (or 70gp if you consider the 30gp "credit" from swapping the shortbow for a sling), or from longsword to MW longsword (300gp). Otherwise, some holy water, maybe a healing potion or scroll (if Alton Senior can scribe them - I'm assuming that, depending on the spell, young Alton would be able to use the scrolls, since some divine spells are on his spell list).
Oh, and he would like to replace the trail ration and the tindertwig that he used last night.
So, if you could give us a ballpark gp figure for additional equipment, that'd be helpful.
On the other hand, if we're going to be issued the equipment
on loan - well, there is that wand of
cure light wounds that Mero keeps locked up in the ash-wood box on the top shelf of the small storeroom alongside his office in the militia barracks!
'Nock