[Swordbearer] Starvation and Water

[Kai Zimmermann]

Am 19.06.2011 01:30, schrieb lev at rpgreview.net:

> I was thinking also that water should be very significant - more so than
> food. One can survive quite some time, albeit in a weakened state, without
> food... But when water is missing then you're in serious trouble and
> quickly.

Absolutely. The margin is so small - 3 to 4 days with activity in not 
too warm weather - that it is far less of a rules problem than food. 
Reduce by a day for hot or exceedingly cold weather or very strenuous 
activity, add a day for characters with a high mass, and you're in the 
ballpark.

> Something that a particularly realistic GM may introduce - if even for
> narrative purposes - when character's are effectively down to half their
> normal intelligence due to hunger or thirst... then the hallucinations
> start.

Oh yes. Also looking forward to mighty adventurers getting devoured by a 
pack of wild dogs because they are too dazed and weak from hunger and 
thirst.

Kai
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