Sure, but I think it is realistic to expect players to state their PCs are going through these efforts, so the GM can adjudicate any possible obstacles to such. I strongly dislike just handwaving it and assume a full compliment of ammunition at the beginning of every "encounter". To me that is too artificial for my tastes.
Unless you use some kind of qualifying condition to determine if a long rest can be taken, like the haven rules in Level Up.
Sure. If you have a house rule(from any source) that prevents what I said, then what I said doesn't work. If you are playing 5e as written, though, it works just fine.
So what ARE they calling me now?
If a player doesn’t know anything about real world history or real world archery, then it’s not realistic to expect them to state something only historians or archers would know.
We mark off food in my game when we make camp, specifically (as in I tell the players to check off Supply on their sheets). Why should we ignore making arrows? And getting lost in the desert is but one of many situations when one might lack the means to do so. How many dungeons and ruins are full of trees with convenient arrow-making branches? Not all of them.
Only historians and archers know that when you run out of arrows for your bow you need to get more somehow?
No, most people aren’t aware that archers make their own arrows as needed. They instead think they have to go into an arrow shop and stock up. Carting 200 arrows around with you is silly, because they would warp.
No matter which door you open, the weapon was behind the other one!
I do play 5e as written (at least that part). Just not WotC 5e. Haven't changed my mind about that. And for the record, I was very clear about the version of 5e I was referencing in my post.
