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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 2961351" data-attributes="member: 32545">On the one hand, being able to go a day with no water and needing about 3 gallons a day is a lot different from needing 3 gallons every other day (as happens in the proposed plan).  You sweat out so much water a day and you have to replace it, so by day 3 you're trying to replace 2 days of lost liquid with one day worth of new liquid.  Personally, I'd rule that as soon as you drop below a gallon of water every eight hours you hit fatigued status.  Probably make you roll a Fort save by day 7 or 8 of your 16 day plan to see if you become exhausted with increasing DCs as the days wear on, but that's just me.On the other hand, there are a lot of ways to increase your survivability in extreme environments.  In a desert, for instance, wearing long sleeves and a makeshift turban will keep you from sweating as much and reduce the amount of liquid you need.  As someone else mentioned, a desert's temperature changes dramatically after sundown so if you spend your days under shelter and walk at night you'd reduce your need for water even more.Yet another example of realism falling beneath the granularity of d&d.  So yeah, by the RAW what you say would work but if I were running a desert survival adventure where finding reliable hydration were one of the challenges I probably wouldn't let it slide.  But I'd also let everyone know how I was going to handle it beforehand.</blockquote>

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