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What is a ring of sustenance worth to you?
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el-remmen
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They will if the DM reminds them.
In the game I play in we left our llama out front of this abandoned fortress we found out in the middle of nowhere and came back out to find gigantic lizard prints and some blood.
We were like, Crap!, all our food was on him!
We know our DM would love to starve us to death.
In the game I play in we left our llama out front of this abandoned fortress we found out in the middle of nowhere and came back out to find gigantic lizard prints and some blood.
We were like, Crap!, all our food was on him!
We know our DM would love to starve us to death.
Heretic Apostate
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I thought the ring of sustenance only provided relief from hunger and thirst for every other week? Or was that in prior editions?
TracerBullet42
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Ack! It's a cursed item! Get it away from me!
I mean, come one...a ring that eliminates your hunger? Then you'll never eat! And who wants to live if you can't eat?!!!
Not for me, no thank you....
I mean, come one...a ring that eliminates your hunger? Then you'll never eat! And who wants to live if you can't eat?!!!
Not for me, no thank you....
tzor
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It's a nice item. It's very handy when you want to travel, although the one week activation period can be a little annoying. The extra time in the day is nice, but only nice.
But the powers of the ring attemtps to answer questions that sometimes are best left unanswered. Do you eat to live, or do you live to eat? The ring suggests the former, but eating is more than just sustaining yourself. In most human societies, eating forms the basic bonding ritual of any large group. The Europeans, bringing back spices from the crusades threw away the dark ages and brought in the age of spicy rennisance. Wine, it is said, gladens the heart of the drinker. Food and drink are more than mere sustinance. The ring forgets that.
Likewise unless you are in a tower working on your magic item, those extra hours are going to be wasted. Sure you can do extra guard duty, and you can spend less time in a vunlerable state, but in the long run, extra hours does not mean extra work. There are more factors than mere desire for sleep that forces a mind to seek recreation. After all, you're not sleeping now right? This time could better spent working, so why aren't you working?
Thus there are situations where this ring would be exceptionally usefull, but not always. Besides the notion that you can not eat anything and still not loose a single pound of weight would drive me batty in a month.
If you are just thinking of the food aspects alone, you can get a Sustaining Spoon for over twice the price (5,400 gp) and feed youself and three others. This can be important because even with two hours of sleep it is still unwise to travel alone and it your companions have to eat, you still have all the problems even if they only indirectly impact you. Moreover, the spoon can sustain you, a companion, your mount, and your companion's mount, something the ring alone cannot do.
Not eating alone, or eating cream of wheat with a friend. Neither sounds all that appealing to me personally.
But the powers of the ring attemtps to answer questions that sometimes are best left unanswered. Do you eat to live, or do you live to eat? The ring suggests the former, but eating is more than just sustaining yourself. In most human societies, eating forms the basic bonding ritual of any large group. The Europeans, bringing back spices from the crusades threw away the dark ages and brought in the age of spicy rennisance. Wine, it is said, gladens the heart of the drinker. Food and drink are more than mere sustinance. The ring forgets that.
Likewise unless you are in a tower working on your magic item, those extra hours are going to be wasted. Sure you can do extra guard duty, and you can spend less time in a vunlerable state, but in the long run, extra hours does not mean extra work. There are more factors than mere desire for sleep that forces a mind to seek recreation. After all, you're not sleeping now right? This time could better spent working, so why aren't you working?
Thus there are situations where this ring would be exceptionally usefull, but not always. Besides the notion that you can not eat anything and still not loose a single pound of weight would drive me batty in a month.
If you are just thinking of the food aspects alone, you can get a Sustaining Spoon for over twice the price (5,400 gp) and feed youself and three others. This can be important because even with two hours of sleep it is still unwise to travel alone and it your companions have to eat, you still have all the problems even if they only indirectly impact you. Moreover, the spoon can sustain you, a companion, your mount, and your companion's mount, something the ring alone cannot do.
Not eating alone, or eating cream of wheat with a friend. Neither sounds all that appealing to me personally.
Djeta Thernadier
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alsih2o said:We need the bridle version of this.
Not to be Mr. Bookkeeper, but i think a lot of folks don't take into account how much horses and other bearer animals eat, especially with the inhumane hours adventurers spend in the saddle.
This is true. I tend to say my familiar (bat) catches bugs and other small critters during our travels, but now that you mention it, no one has fed our horses in about a year....
On a lighter note, when I made up my character oh so long ago, I must have thought it would be fun to select "chicken" from the list of items she could carry. Well, I forgot about the poor thing after the second game and only recently rediscovered it on my list of belongings. I asked about it, and the DM told me, have you been feeding it? I answered honestly, and it was determined that said chicken probably died a cruel and terrible death ages ago. I felt awful. I really did.
Angcuru
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I would take this ring in a heartbeat. Don't have to eat/drink = no food bill. Don't have to sleep as much = more productivity = being able to work longer hours = more income = better life.
The ring's description doesn't say that food no longer tastes good. You want some pizza, you get some pizza. You can still go to dinner with your friends, enjoy a romantic meal with your S.O., etc..
And if one doesn't want to spend extra hours working, one can lay abed for that extra 6 hours just enjoying the comfiness of a soft, warm bed.
Think about it. 6 less hours per day spent sleeping = a much longer conscious lifespan.
The ring's description doesn't say that food no longer tastes good. You want some pizza, you get some pizza. You can still go to dinner with your friends, enjoy a romantic meal with your S.O., etc..
And if one doesn't want to spend extra hours working, one can lay abed for that extra 6 hours just enjoying the comfiness of a soft, warm bed.
Think about it. 6 less hours per day spent sleeping = a much longer conscious lifespan.
Djeta Thernadier
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nemmerle said:
All I want to know is, why a llama?
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