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I packed my bag and in it I put
Nov. 4th, 2018 04:15 pmSo far today I have been sorting pictures into folders again, and once again discovering I save really a lot of very similar looking things.
The other day I chose an outfit for adventuring in, with maximum pockets, wax cotton waterproofing, and lots of layers for different conditions. Magic should take care of the mending and cleaning so you only really need two of everything, in case something either gets extra destroyed or needs taken off to get mended. Should fit in a backpack.
Today I'm wondering what I'd put in a trunk. You couldn't necessarily drag a trunk around with you, but a decent sized steamer trunk just seems like the kind of thing everyone has. Yes, I went to boarding school. Yes, I am aware that's a limited cross section of everyone. Still. My baseline assumption includes satchel, backpack, and trunk.
So what does your adventurer put in their trunk?
Depends on setting and class, obviously, or role in the party, in a classless game.
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I keep thinking though, the basic GURPS setup where you and your equipment get yanked through the Banestorm, you could easily have a trunk with you, or indeed a car for what that would be worth on a mostly medieval planet, but you wouldn't know in advance you were going, unless you went by a very odd route. I guess there are some predictable portals in fantasy.
... who would go on a one way trip through a portal with only rumours about what is on the other side?
... top of the list is people who miss whoever went the last time it opened, but you'd have to start that with someone...
... people trying to get away from something? Rogues and runaways and refugees. I still like the idea of a world like Yrth in the Banestorm book but instead of mashing up the mainstream civilisations that did quite well for yourself you end up with all the obscure ones that got stomped on in the here history. Banestorm guided by a collector, mercy roads out of ruin. You'd end up with a much more diverse setting.
So you'd end up with two sorts of well equipped traveller, people who just happened to have a trunk
(car) full of everything useful they owned, and those that knew where they were going.
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So I'm tempted to get equipment lists out and actually pack these things, but, there's a lot of character decisions that go into them first. Plausible or prepared? Character class they're trained for or just a lot of tradeable goods? The amount a TL8 adventurer could have in the bank compared to the TL3 people they'll arrive among could make for spectacular wealth right there.
I'm tempted to make it an actual school trunk, plausibly full of textbooks, because even your basic maths books could be very shiny if actual TL3 is in effect, and high school science would be very.
But there's also trunks packed without the portal aspect at all, just 159 litres of native Golarion stuff or suchlike.
Too many options, must decide...
Which one would you like to play with?
The other day I chose an outfit for adventuring in, with maximum pockets, wax cotton waterproofing, and lots of layers for different conditions. Magic should take care of the mending and cleaning so you only really need two of everything, in case something either gets extra destroyed or needs taken off to get mended. Should fit in a backpack.
Today I'm wondering what I'd put in a trunk. You couldn't necessarily drag a trunk around with you, but a decent sized steamer trunk just seems like the kind of thing everyone has. Yes, I went to boarding school. Yes, I am aware that's a limited cross section of everyone. Still. My baseline assumption includes satchel, backpack, and trunk.
So what does your adventurer put in their trunk?
Depends on setting and class, obviously, or role in the party, in a classless game.
( Read more... )
I keep thinking though, the basic GURPS setup where you and your equipment get yanked through the Banestorm, you could easily have a trunk with you, or indeed a car for what that would be worth on a mostly medieval planet, but you wouldn't know in advance you were going, unless you went by a very odd route. I guess there are some predictable portals in fantasy.
... who would go on a one way trip through a portal with only rumours about what is on the other side?
... top of the list is people who miss whoever went the last time it opened, but you'd have to start that with someone...
... people trying to get away from something? Rogues and runaways and refugees. I still like the idea of a world like Yrth in the Banestorm book but instead of mashing up the mainstream civilisations that did quite well for yourself you end up with all the obscure ones that got stomped on in the here history. Banestorm guided by a collector, mercy roads out of ruin. You'd end up with a much more diverse setting.
So you'd end up with two sorts of well equipped traveller, people who just happened to have a trunk
(car) full of everything useful they owned, and those that knew where they were going.
( Read more... )
So I'm tempted to get equipment lists out and actually pack these things, but, there's a lot of character decisions that go into them first. Plausible or prepared? Character class they're trained for or just a lot of tradeable goods? The amount a TL8 adventurer could have in the bank compared to the TL3 people they'll arrive among could make for spectacular wealth right there.
I'm tempted to make it an actual school trunk, plausibly full of textbooks, because even your basic maths books could be very shiny if actual TL3 is in effect, and high school science would be very.
But there's also trunks packed without the portal aspect at all, just 159 litres of native Golarion stuff or suchlike.
Too many options, must decide...
Which one would you like to play with?