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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 9826384" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Ah - the higher the number, the more tedious to track.  Especially when avoiding the danger-low quantities is effortless.Except, what village has 10 days of salt-pork and sun-dried veggies, per adventurer, for sale?  You could go find a standing army's quartermaster or even the marshal, and bribe her for supplies.  Armies like gold, but they're not very easy to trade with.Arrows might be easier to come across, but having too many isn't the best tactical idea.  If you wore a back quiver and a hip quiver to carry all those arrows, you'd probably sound like a bag full of drumsticks anytime you moved faster than a crawl.  And you'd have one less hip/back for carrying other things, like a loaded coin purse or a side arm.Arrows might not be as flashy as a Minute Meteors spell, but in my game, it's much easier to loose an arrow than cast Minute Meteors.  And the price of not counting your arrows is that I might do the "counting" for you.</blockquote>