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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8692636" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Its not a trivial part of my point, you know.You are not, however, someone who is dependent on the contents of your backpack being necessary to your survival, and being away from immediate resupply in a potentially hostile situation.&nbsp; I can promise you if you talk to people who do find themselves in that situation regularly, they'll have a very good idea what they have with them, and in fact check it quite regularly when setting out.&nbsp; This parallels what PCs in most games where inventory is relevant do quite well.I'll again argue that often that's because it again doesn't matter.&nbsp; Similarly in the above, if you asked a backpacker what his freeze dried food was in he'd probably say &quot;Uh, some kind of plastic?&quot; because he doesn't need to know; its not relevant to the functional issues unless something really unusual happens.&nbsp;&nbsp; As I've mentioned before in regard to &quot;kits&quot; it only comes up when someone is trying to use something &quot;off label&quot; as it were.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8692636, member: 7026617"] Its not a trivial part of my point, you know. You are not, however, someone who is dependent on the contents of your backpack being necessary to your survival, and being away from immediate resupply in a potentially hostile situation. I can promise you if you talk to people who do find themselves in that situation regularly, they'll have a very good idea what they have with them, and in fact check it quite regularly when setting out. This parallels what PCs in most games where inventory is relevant do quite well. I'll again argue that often that's because it again doesn't matter. Similarly in the above, if you asked a backpacker what his freeze dried food was in he'd probably say "Uh, some kind of plastic?" because he doesn't need to know; its not relevant to the functional issues unless something really unusual happens. As I've mentioned before in regard to "kits" it only comes up when someone is trying to use something "off label" as it were. [/QUOTE]

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