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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peni Griffin" data-source="post: 3578092" data-attributes="member: 50322">Prepare for this game by reading Gary Paulsen, specifically Hatchet and the other Brian books.  In the YA section of a library or bookstore near you!Make them play their skills and learn from experience.  Ask them how they're going to solve this problem or that and give them fair die rolls to do reasonable things.  Drop hints in the form of checks against preexisting knowledge - after all, they've all been in kitchens, some of them have heard hunting and fishing stories, they know what many wild foods look like because they've eaten them.  Apply fatigue and starvation rules - make them feel how urgent it is to solve problems like getting enough water and sleep.And do not dismiss the lethal power prey animals in a corner.  Yes, the primary purposes of a stag's antlers are sexual display and competition with other males, but those antlers can kill you.  So can those hooves, if the doe feels sufficiently threatened.  So can just stumbling onto you, if say the deer has been spooked straight into you.  Squirrels have teeth and jaws that can open walnuts fercryinoutloud.  And don't get me started on moose.  (Moose is in the Brian books)And then there's the fay.  Yes, it's Iron Heroes, but that doesn't mean there's no fay, just that they're more elusive and more scary.  Also, the characters can believe in things that don't exist and be misled into taking problematical actions in response to a largely imaginary threat, especially after a few days of short sleep.However, give them good access to food if they describe reasonable methods of finding it.  Fungi, roots, berries, nuts, meat, honey, fish (you should let them find a water source early just to keep the search for it from becoming tedious), and bark will all be available, with different things peaking at different seasons.  They can watch other animals to learn which ones are good, and even raid the caches of many forethoughtful animals.</blockquote>

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