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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3378029" data-attributes="member: 11146">Thanks for looking up chitin armor in AEG.  That's definitely way more than I feel is a good idea to hand out in what is, basically, treasure to a 1st level party.  Thanks too for doing the math on how much we might be looking at in terms of what the spider carcasses might be worth.  While I can do the math, it's the time and opportunity that I lack.  Three small children and a baby at home makes me very appreciative of help on the accounting front.  I'm comfortable giving out the roughly 3-4k in treasure.  Maelicent will have skinned and tanned the carcasses but it was a group effort to slay the things.  I'll leave the specifics of how to divvy up the gold you might earn from the spider carcasses at the hands of the group; essentially, that's a player thing, not a DM thing.  My part is to make sure the math is straight, to account for how long it takes to do the butchering to see if it somehow will interplay with how the adventure runs, and to NPC the sale and manufacture of any items crafted from the carcasses (and this only because no one seems to want to dump skill ranks into Craft (weapon or armorsmithing), or to spend the in-game time messing with crafting weapons or armor).  Thinking it through, you have a valid point in that Maelicent is not a total stranger to the city.  In going off the mental cues as provided in your textual description of his thoughts, though, Maelicent is still a foreigner in the city but he would at least know how and where to find most things that he might need to go about his daily business.  When I said "in an unfamiliar environment," I more meant that I didn't think he'd butchered anything before in a stable in a city.  The stable is smaller than a woodland clearing, there's the question of whether the beams in the small stable will hold up the large beasts vice using a stout and mature tree in a forest, etc, etc, etc...  As I see it, we really only have two things left to agree on.  The first is whether Maelicent gets any sleep at all during his butchering or if he stays up all night.  I recognize that you all want to rp, but I also need for everyone to be on the same page in terms of being together, adventuring together, whether you all are diurnal or nocturnal, etc...  What I'm getting at is if Mal stays up all night, then he may end up being exhausted, which comes with certain  penalties as per the DMG.  Is Mal going to be making a habit of staying up all night?  My concern is long-term on this issue.  Let me know what you're thinking on this subject.  The second thing to agree on is the Survival DC for the butchering.  If Maelicent has enough coin to do it, he could stop by a butcher's on his way back to the Cockatrice and spend 20 gp to buy a masterwork filleting knife and a boning knife.  He'd know where to buy the knives and how much they'd cost.  I want to go with a DC 20 because this isn't just your average everyday butchering job.  The spiders are large and have a foreign anatomy.  The special tools (in this case knives) would lend a +2 bonus to the Survival check.</blockquote>

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