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Halaster-Blackcloak wrote:I checked arrows, encumbrance, and other - FOOD and WATER! My PCs love to go out on an adventure and, for some reason I cannot understand, tend never to take enough food and water.

"Oh, the ranger can find food!"

Well sure, but probably not enough to feed the entire party every night! They always run out. Always. Except for one of my groups playing in a FR campaign. They almost died several times for lack of food and water, and eventually started stashing caches of food (beef jerky, pemmican, etc.) and water and ale in remote areas throughout the land. If they went from the Dalelands to Cormyr, they buried a few caches somewhere on the way. They especially did this in areas they'd frequent.

Ikea's portable pantry.
This is a magical door handle that is tied into a 20ft long, 12ft wide extra dimensional space, lined with shelves when ever it is placed against any vertical surface that is rigid (such as a doorway, wall or tree). Any food that is cooked and prepared can be stored inside, providing its on a proper plate (or in a bowl). Unprepared food, spoiled food or food that has been poisoned will resist being placed inside the space that gets opened up. Up to 500 platefuls and 300 bowls worth of cooked food can be thusly stored, and ALL food will be kept as hot as it was when cooked up. Besides the food it allows to get stored, it will ONLY allow empty plates, bowls and cutlery to be stored inside.
Treat this space as a portable hole for what happens if the handle is stored within a bag of holding.

Xp 600, GP 1400

Mokai's wok
This normal looking metallic oriental wok, can be used to cook food normally, and serves in that roll well. BUT if the command word for it is known, and even just a small amt of food stuff placed inside, it will 'self' cook up enough stir fry food for 18 man meals a day. This food is not only nutritious, but healthy and good tasting (those consuming one meal gain 1d3hp back, 2 meals they gain 1d5hp back and those eating 3 meals gain 2d4 back).

Xp/GP value. 750 xp. 1,800 gp

Toddle's skillet.
This frying pan was made by a human woman married to a dwarf fighter, who had a rather peculiar love for omelets.. no matter the time of day. Similar to devices like the ever full rice bowl, or the above wok, it can be used to 'create' food sufficient to make 15 man meals each 24 hr period. It can also be used to make normal food..
Once every 180 days it can be requested to make a heroes feast (as the spell), but each time this is done the handle shortens up by 1 inch. A skillet normally is found with 5-8 inches for a handle, and if the handle is ever destroyed, or dwindles down from using the above 'blessing', the skillet loses its magic.

This device has the exact same XP/GP value as Mokai's Wok.


Satchel of Horse feed.
This magical item works in a similar manner to Murlynd's spoon or the ever-full rice bowl, in that it creates a number of meals per day for animals, but said food is Only nutritious to animals, not humans or demi-humans.
It creates enough 'feed' for 12 animals a day. Riding horses consume 1 “feed” a day, Light war horses eat 1 and a half “feed” a day, Medium war horses take 2 “feeds” a day, heavy war horses 3 “feeds” a day, and draft horses 4..

XP/GP value. 2,500 xp and 7,000gp.

Bag of Preservation
This magical device is very similar in operation and appearance to that of a Bag of Holding or Hewards Handy Haversack. However it only allows the storage of food and drink. It can contain up to 300lb of food stuff (35 cubic feet), but where the true power of the item comes into play is that ANY food and drink no matter how poisonous, rotten, spoiled or normally inedible (it still must be food though), placed inside will come back out Nutritious and healthy to eat. Cooked food placed inside is kept at the same temperature it was placed in (and can even be kept on the plate or in the bowl it was served on). This is cause the bag consistently purifies food and drink as if it was a 20th level cleric.

Lyrwik wrote:
Honestly, the biggest reason for not wanting to track too much detail on this kind of thing, is I don't like the game being slowed down by people going shopping. I'm still getting my current group of players trained up in doing their shopping (for standard stuff) away from the table.

Also - my current game has 9 PCs... Even if I wanted to track things, there's no way that I can reasonably go to the effort of monitoring tracking of consumables. On the whole they seem to recognise the need to buy more supplies when they're in town, so it works out okay.

garhkal wrote: So for those, the first time i count it as an honest mistake. If i catch it a 2nd time i dock 25% of the next sessions XP for that pc.. then it goes to 50% if its caught a third time. FOLLOWED by a major talking to.