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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 2674080" data-attributes="member: 18363">They have rules for adjusted Survival DCs in the various environment suppliments (Sandstorm, etc). Also, note that the DC 10 Survival check presumes a forest or at least a lightly wooded field. Personally, I would work it something like this (for forests): DC 10 (summer), +2 per additional personDC 12 (spring / autumn), +3 per additional personDC 15 (winter), +4 per additional personDeserts would ignore the seasons, instead being a flat DC 20, +5 per additional person. If it were a mild desert (more of an arid grassland) I would consider DC 15, +4 per person. I am also curious about why the horses died. They should have lasted the entire three days with ease so long as enough water was present. I can see them dying on the way back (perhaps halfway back to civilization), but the meat you would have gotten from them at that point would have been overwhelmingly sufficient for making it back to settled lands - easily enough for a week or so. As for the dinosaur finding food, note that you were only three days into the desert. Unless the settled lands were very small (a town around an oasis) it is likely that you were near a biome border (between desert and savanna, for instance), in which case there were likely several animals about in the desert - if you knew where to look. Antelope, lions hunting those antelope, wild camels wandering about, snakes, vultures, hares, falcons, etc. And that is not even taking into account some of the monsters that may have been present. And as you already pointed out, I have not even started on the (sparse) plantlife present: cacti, timblebushes (sp?), and possibly more, dependent on the type of desert. It all depends upon the severity of the desert and your location along (or in) its borders.</blockquote>

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