Survival Days

[ourchair]

Okay, there're other threads about Encounters Season 2 discussing this but I figured it was a mechanic that deserved its own thread.

Frankly, I think the idea of abstracting food and water supplies into a single 'crunchy' unit is great.

A problem I hear is that Encounters allows you to spend minor actions to acquire 'survival days' from a wagon. The other problem is that the Free RPG Day adventure 'Bloodsand Arena' doesn't tell you how many survival days the characters start with or where players get them.

Simply put, WotC's pre-release material so far has spent more time blathering about mechanics you can opt out of such as 'arcane defiling' and 'weapon breakage' than such a crucial one as survival days. What's up with that?

So what are your thoughts on survival days?

Can someone explain to me where PCs are supposed to get them outside of the scenario presented in Fury of the Wastewalker? How many do players in Bloodsand Arena start with?

 

[ourchair]

*bump*?

 

[the Jester]

I dunno about Bloodsand Arena, but I presume that the DS CS book will have equipment lists including survival-days.

Keep in mind that it's more than food & water- it's also appropriate clothing, shade cloth, etc. Everything you need to survive for a day.

I don't really like how abstracted they made them- and to be honest, a minor action to pick up a day's food, water, shade etc. seems pretty forgiving to me. But hey, it made for a fun Encounter!

 

[ourchair]

I dunno about Bloodsand Arena, but I presume that the DS CS book will have equipment lists including survival-days.

Keep in mind that it's more than food & water- it's also appropriate clothing, shade cloth, etc. Everything you need to survive for a day.

I don't really like how abstracted they made them- and to be honest, a minor action to pick up a day's food, water, shade etc. seems pretty forgiving to me. But hey, it made for a fun Encounter!

Yeah I wasn't keen on the whole minor action to pick up a nigh infinite number of survival days.

I mean, come on, how much in the way travel supplies could you possibly carry and how quickly could you gather them all? Imagine if you left for work or school and you decided hm, I need another survival day. That ain't no minor action.