Now the 1 gallon of water per day? That actually is recommended.Īctually, they're not far off from real-life. We'd starve on 1 pound, and adventurers are very active people. On Earth, normal humans average around 3-4 pounds of food consumption a day. Not every large or medium creature is built the same. Yes, D&D's rules on food and water are unrealistic and they have to be. I never noticed that the weight for a day of animal feed was similarly incongruous cause I don’t get a lot of players riding mounts, but if it comes up I will definitely change the weight to be consistent with the listed food requirement. Personally, I have ruled for years that rations weigh one pound per day, and the packaging weight is negligible. I tried checking to see if Jeremy Crawford has weighed in on the matter, but all I could find was a tweet from Mike Mearls saying rations were 2 pounds because “it’s all heavy, awful junk food” which is the opposite of what travel rations should be, and a follow-up question about whether the extra pound might be packaging, to which he said “I have no idea. (Here’s an insightful article on the matter). of food, it’s also inconsistent with the weight of rations in past editions. Not only is it incongruous with the daily requirement of 1 lb. How has anyone else managed food weight requirements (especially in an austere environment)? Has anyone else noticed this incongruity? I’m not sure if I will adjust the costs also, but it makes sense that I should. I think what I will do is reduce the weight of the rations to 1lb per day of food to match consumption rates.Īnd I will do the same for feed for the size of the animal the feed is for: 4 (instead of 10 lbs) pounds for large animals like horses and camels, but a huge animal like an elephant the feed would weight 16 lbs. The foraging rules work well with the food and water weight consumption requirements. Granted, the feed in very generalized and does not account for the different types of animals.
But the feed for animals weigh 10 lbs per day of feed. Then when I look at large creatures, like a horse, they require 4 pounds of food and 4 gallons of water per day. I suppose I can assume that the extra pound is due to packaging (excessive apparently). However, the rations, which provide food for one day, weighs 2 lbs. However, I’ve come across a weird incongruity in the rules regarding feeding requirements.Īccording to the DM’s Guide, a medium creature requires a pound of food and a gallon of water per day. So I am about to run a campaign with an austere environment and I am refreshing my memory on the rules for food and water consumption, travel distance, weather impacts, and exhaustion.
0 kommentar(er)
