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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tburdett" data-source="post: 302213" data-attributes="member: 4714">Use the rope!First off, basic survival is not a problem.  As hong stated, taking 10 will guarantee that.Here is an outline to help explain what that might entail.Water is available and Magic Missile will provide the player with a steady diet of squirrel, birds, and the like.  Berries and other forest vegatation (identified as being safe and edible using the survival skills you mentioned) can supplement that and provide some variety.  Magic Missile is great for hunting small game, as it never misses, and it shouldn't spoil the meat the way that a bad arrow shot would.As long as the player is going to be in the area for 2 years he might as well excavate an underground area large enough to live in for the fall and winter months and build a treehouse as high up as possible to live in for the spring and summer months.The fallen leaves during the fall and the heavy snows during the winter would help to conceal the underground hidey hole from prying eyes.  The treehouse, if built high enough, should be hidden as well by the interposing branches and leaves.This should give him a place to try and hide from creatures that may enter the area.  The Scent ability, being as widespread as it is, will probably result in his being found anyway, but at least he'll die trying.  What an opportunity to 'role-play'!Having said all of that, I really don't see how a 1st level Wizard could survive this scenario without a great amount of DM sympathy and assistance.Any creature with more than 20 hit points, or any creature that finds the PC while he is sleeping, is going to pretty much have its way.  No 1st level Wizard is going to survive that Coup de grace attack.  And even if you are awake, Magic Missile won't get the job done, and your BAB isn't going to help you hit anything with the bow or sword.  You might get lucky with Sleep, but one or two successful saving throws, or being faced by more than a single foe, is going to put the PC on somebodies dinner plate.The PC's best bet would be to fashion a noose with his rope and then create a new character that hopefully won't be stuck in the same type of DM generated death trap.This involves a lot of misery and suffering, and that probably means that a bunch of 'real' role-players are at work.</blockquote>

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