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I would like to know if pet feed needs to be on the inventory tracking sheets and chronicle sheets. Why?
A 400 lb large carnivore will eat 400 copper of feed per day. The PC takes a 104 day scenario so the carnivore needs 104(400) copper worth of feed.
So do pet animals need to be fed in Pathfinder Society play?
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With all the tasty monsters and bad guys along the way, does your carnivore really need to be fed?
Edit: I don't know about Society play, but in home games I do charge the PCs for inn stays and such as long as it is a significant amount. We pretty much hand wave it once they have enough bling-bling and ching-ching. Most innkeepers don't have change for a fist-sized diamond, anyway.
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There's a vanity you can purchase that makes it so you don't have to worry about feeding a mount, so normally I'd assume you're supposed to track it.The vanity is for home game use of the Field Guide.
Rations, inn stays, travel expenses, stabling, and other minutiae are hand waved in society play.
I thought that purchases over 1 gold are to be recorded during a scenario and, thus a 400 gold stabling tab might need to be accounted for however, I can't find an official reference so I will go with this hand waving as you call it. I was thinking that the balance to a 2nd level character having a 6HD combat trained pet would have been upkeep but I will ignore it.
Thanks for your response.
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Well, purchases below a certain amount don't have to be tracked on the ITS. I have one particular character who's schtick is that he buys practically every mundane item that it's possible to buy, so I optioned to record all the small stuff to prove that he had it with him in the field. (For some reason, people tend to blink at you when you say "I take out my portable bridge...") As a result, I tend to track just about everything now.
All of which is to say, nobody's stopping you from tracking your pet's feed if you want to. Throw in some roleplaying scenes where you carry around some big sacks of oat so you can feed him later and you've got another aspect to your character. :)
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Do you have a quote for this? I can't find it in either the guide or the FAQ.There's a vanity you can purchase that makes it so you don't have to worry about feeding a mount, so normally I'd assume you're supposed to track it.The vanity is for home game use of the Field Guide.
Rations, inn stays, travel expenses, stabling, and other minutiae are hand waved in society play.
I don't know if it's been codified at any point in time, but this is a post from the then campaign organizer here. I've never seen it overturned or changed since then.
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Just remember that there are some scenarios or modules where you might want to make sure you have a week's food in your inventory, just to keep track of, if you have to do that wilderness travel as part of the scenario...
Of course, things like the create water orison sort of kills some of that tracking need...
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not all costs are covered. read ur scenarios, they will say "we arranged transportation by...." while some specifically state you must find your own transportation. as for feeds], bribes and tariffs im pretty sure u must cover these costs unless the scenario states otherwise, whether u buy or forage provided the environment allows it. until i see documented rule saying otherwise i will play it how scenarios write it.