Everybody wants to go on an adventure until they find out it means being cold and hungry, carrying everything you need on your back, and sleeping outside in the rain for days.
Presumably you’d be sleeping in a tent, so the “sleeping outside in the rain for days” bit isn’t too bad. Carrying everything is a pain though, particularly if it’s a cold season and you’d have to carry a bunch of furs to help maintain body heat while sleeping. Only real way to do it in that case is to have an extra horse for cargo, which of course further complicates logistics
Or you could have a magical pouch that transports items to a storage closet in another dimension, and a magical servitor to set up and take down a luxury tent with all the comforts and essentials.
Unless you have the magic pouch and servitor though, yeah a pack animal is your best bet other than roughing it…
Presumably you’d be sleeping in a tent, so the “sleeping outside in the rain for days” bit isn’t too bad.
How many days have you spent living in a tent in the rain? because personally I think it’s kind of fun for one night, assuming it’s not a complete downpour, and then the novelty wears off and everything is damp and muddy. And that’s assuming you have a reasonably good tent that you’ve prepped for wet conditions, and you set it up in a spot with good drainage that hasn’t become a puddle. Campfires are a lot less fun in the rain too.
Carrying everything is a pain though, particularly if it’s a cold season and you’d have to carry a bunch of furs to help maintain body heat while sleeping.
Yeah, cold weather gear, or if you can’t rely on water availability and you have to carry it with you. Being able to keep yourself alive while not getting overburdened with gear is pretty difficult.
Only real way to do it in that case is to have an extra horse for cargo, which of course further complicates logistics
It really does. There was this excellent video that was shared on lemmy a few weeks ago:
One of the things he covers (around 9 minutes) is the cost of keeping a horse while traveling (from historic records). Really great description of traveling considerations overall.
I played a one-shot where I was just a normal guy. No tragic backstory, good relationship with my parents, just an average townsperson. The only reason he went on the quest was to get a little combat experience so he could join the city guard.
Half the party died, he almost got killed by a horrible monster, and he noped right the fuck out back to town to be a florist.
Comes with a high chance of death.
Everybody wants to go on an adventure until they find out it means being cold and hungry, carrying everything you need on your back, and sleeping outside in the rain for days.
All of that becomes tolerable the moment you remove the hairs from your ass crack.
If you know you know.
Presumably you’d be sleeping in a tent, so the “sleeping outside in the rain for days” bit isn’t too bad. Carrying everything is a pain though, particularly if it’s a cold season and you’d have to carry a bunch of furs to help maintain body heat while sleeping. Only real way to do it in that case is to have an extra horse for cargo, which of course further complicates logistics
Or you could have a magical pouch that transports items to a storage closet in another dimension, and a magical servitor to set up and take down a luxury tent with all the comforts and essentials.
Unless you have the magic pouch and servitor though, yeah a pack animal is your best bet other than roughing it…
How many days have you spent living in a tent in the rain? because personally I think it’s kind of fun for one night, assuming it’s not a complete downpour, and then the novelty wears off and everything is damp and muddy. And that’s assuming you have a reasonably good tent that you’ve prepped for wet conditions, and you set it up in a spot with good drainage that hasn’t become a puddle. Campfires are a lot less fun in the rain too.
Yeah, cold weather gear, or if you can’t rely on water availability and you have to carry it with you. Being able to keep yourself alive while not getting overburdened with gear is pretty difficult.
It really does. There was this excellent video that was shared on lemmy a few weeks ago:
What Medieval People Ate When Traveling
One of the things he covers (around 9 minutes) is the cost of keeping a horse while traveling (from historic records). Really great description of traveling considerations overall.
That’s why a lot of people heads to dungeons, no rain in dungeons.
Slim chance of success?
“What are we waiting for?”
A million to one chance always succeeds
Then what are we waiting for?
Look, I was already interested, you don’t have to keep selling me on it.
I played a one-shot where I was just a normal guy. No tragic backstory, good relationship with my parents, just an average townsperson. The only reason he went on the quest was to get a little combat experience so he could join the city guard.
Half the party died, he almost got killed by a horrible monster, and he noped right the fuck out back to town to be a florist.