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#1 theundying Nov 04, 2009 16:12:52	Questions in the title.
#2 Alacryss Nov 04, 2009 17:08:51	I got a sack of these blue flat-laying stones from Big Lots, which are a lot like the ones Chessex sells.  I hand the characters a number of stones depending on how many quarts of water they have.  When they fill their skins, I hand them stones.  When they empty them, they hand the stones back t o me.  It works pretty well.
#3 eric_anondson Nov 04, 2009 19:31:54	I don't. Create water and create food and water made it a useless exercise.
#4 turlough Nov 04, 2009 21:33:41	Years ago, when reading Star Wars d6, they didn't have values for a clip for a gun.  I thought that was weird and even more weird when they said to have it run out at a "dramatic moment."  I was literal back then (Briggs-Myers S) and that didn't work for me nor did I think it would work for my players.  Now, I get it.  So, at the moment, I am telling them they have enough supplies.  If they aren't able to get more supplies in the daily course of traveling, its dramatic and it fits the story, I will deal with water.  I know that probably flies in the face of Dark Sun, and I haven't dropped the idea of tracking supplies when they travel outside of the city, but I don't want to add a book keeping item to the game.  It slows it down too much, imo, and the gain isn't worth it.  I do like the bead idea from above.  If it was important, I have some of those glass tokens? beads? flat and rounded beads from Michaels and might use them to at least make it more fun and visual.  I haven't had to deal with it so far in the game.  turlough
#5 vallaurax Nov 06, 2009 18:59:43	Don't character sheets have little check boxes for water that you can mark off these days?
#6 Alacryss Nov 08, 2009 23:21:18	Don't character sheets have little check boxes for water that you can mark off these days? This is Dark Sun.  There'd be a hole in the paper where that is the first time you tried to cross a desert.  Water is horribly scarce, and when your character is wearing very little gear to begin with, it's tough to weigh yourself down with water. I find the encumbrance rules are much more relevant in DS because of its survival focus.  After having played 4e, I see no reason why some of the rules can't be kept for tracking water, though CON damage will be harder to track in 4e.  I guess we really need some new rules for dehydration.