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I Survived 3 Days on D&D's FOOD & Water Rules

Bob World Builder

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00:00 dnd survival rules are weird
03:12 day 1 of dnd irl survival
07:16 people eat how many pounds/day??
07:51 day 2 exhaustion begins
11:25 day 2 exhaustion intensifies
12:10 quest for pizza
13:21 day 3 adapt and survive
15:33 my new dnd survival rules
16:14 dnd rations are wrong?
16:44 dnd irl potion test??

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20 Comments

@BobWorldBuilder Creator 4 years ago (edited) Pinned

Yes, according to the rules, any pound of food is enough--doesn't have to be dry.

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@Fat-Gnome 4 years ago

I would not be eating regular foods, but dehydrated survival foods. Pemmican, jerky, and the like. Stuff that is calorie rich, light weight, and longer lasting

@PerpetualJoy 4 years ago

I definitely feel like the dried food should be weighed pre-cooking. Serving sizes on rice/pasta are typically in their dried form because water absorption varies. Also when you are carrying the food around, you are carrying it dried.

@c00lpi3 4 years ago

I always assumed the 1 pound a day was the bear minimum needed to stave off starvation. Also I agree that the weight should be in dry ingredients and possibly more calorie dense.

@OneShotQuesters 4 years ago

Looks like Bob has some great ‘Taste’ in video ideas!!

slaps knee and shows myself out the door

@danieltaber4924 4 years ago

You joke about a pound of butter, but that is one of the most calorie-dense foodstuffs known to man

@TheCaptainstupendous 4 years ago

If I had known that pole was about this challenge I DEFINETELY would have said weigh the rice dry. The rice has all the nutrients, the water just makes it less awful to chew and swallow, but you can totally eat rice dry so weighing it after being cooked seems mean :(

@yellowmouse-3 4 years ago

I think the food weight for hikers was a good thing to bring up as it probably would be most accurate for adventurers. They are moving around and would be carrying calorie dense foods.

@TinySpaceHamster 4 years ago

I'm sorry Bob, I voted for "cooked weight" =( In my mind I have always equated "1 pound of food" with "1 pound of rations" in this case. So dried meat, dried fruit, nuts, pemmican... stuff you don't neccecarily need to cook to eat but is very high in energy.

@cinderheartMLP 4 years ago

Isn't that meant to be assuming standard rations, which includes calorie dense meat and cheeses?

@GreatWhiteElf 4 years ago (edited)

If we're talking about "survival" a pound of food per day is pretty good. And a gallon of water is over kill, as long as you're not sweating out a bunch of your water

@zing_zippers 4 years ago

Love how the Handbook was in the cupboard like a cook book 😆

@SeanPAllen 4 years ago (edited)

A house rule I'm implementing into a more survival-based campaign, instead of only needing 1 lb of food per day, you need to eat at least 1.5% of your character's body weight in food per day to avoid rolling a DC8 CON save for a level of exhaustion. I feel, while this isn't perfect, it's much more realistic.

@angst_ 4 years ago

1lb does seem a little small, but it would go further if it were dried meats, nuts, seed, bread, and cheeses which are way more calorie dense than fruit.
Also, if we're talking weights some of the race weights seem way too light. Like a Halfing is only 40lbs!? Maybe the reason all the weights are so light is because they only eat celery.

@pur3demon0wn 4 years ago

Survival rations are equivalent to MREs, usually dehydrated fruits and meats. A better test would be getting a month's supply of MREs and having one of those per day.

@DerPilotMann 4 years ago

That's a rough experiment lol.

Glad we have Bob to sacrifice his body and sanity for our D&D Science.

@Beregorn88 4 years ago

As everybody say, you should have used "ration" food, aka jerky, dried fruits, hardtack, sugar. Also, rice should be weighted dry BUT you can only use your daily gallon of water for cooking

@IISheireenII 4 years ago

I thought that is meant for dry foods you reasonably carry on travels and prepare during rests. Things like beans (weighted in dry travel state) rice(also) and similar things. The it never occured to me to consider the prepared weight, it was more of a "that much is what it weights on your carry weight" matter. Not "that is the mass you have to take in".
It wouldn't make much sense since the weight is otherwise only used for carry, so, the amount should be calculated by carry weight of the unprepared foods, not the mass of the prepared.

@jaye1967 4 years ago

It would be interesting to do an "adventuring test" where you combine the rules. You could put all your provisions for the day in a pack as well as having a load of equipment, hike for a couple of miles (the trip to the dungeon), do a 1-hour workout (time in dungeon), add some weight (loot) to the pack, then do another hike for a couple of miles (the trip back to town).

@TheShelbyTheShelby 4 years ago

I'm not sure you interpreted the days without food before exhaustion rules right. I think the "minimum of one" applies to the total number of days, not the modifier added to the 3. So a character with either a -2 or a -3 CON modifier would have 1 day without food prior to exhaustion, not 4.