Who actually takes the time to organize their gear instead of tossing stuff into a bag of holding/handy haversack? I just did a gear list for a character and have a handy haversack with some chests inside that actually group together his stuff into neat organizations. One of these is a food chest and the idea of cheese rolling around on all my expensive magical gear was simultaneously hilarious and facepalm worthy. I also have a chest for writing supplies, my grooming kits, and so on.
What do you guys do?
I just learn to wrap my cheese properly before putting it in the bag of holding.
That said... the party I DM for killed half a dozen Aurochs and decided to keep ALL of the meat from them, declaring that if they purified everything as it went in and kept the bag closed, it couldn't be exposed to anything that would make it rot. Luckily, they have multiple bags of holding, and set one aside just for the meat. It also got emptied about a week later for cooking.
Week old unrefrigerated meat. Yum. :)
I'm not sure on the oxygen consumption of microbes, but I'm thinking there is more than enough air to well age that meat.
Cook anything long enough and it becomes edible, right?
Although if the entire town of Sandpoint comes down with food poisoning a few days later, I suspect they'll know the origin....
I don't normally play but recently I've gotten to level 2 as a PC. I took the time to figure out not only his gear but how he carries it. As a dwarf it doesn't matter since he's not encumbered but it was fun for me and part of the character. He's military trained and a professional soldier.
He wears his armor and buckler
Hanging from his belt
- mug
- belt pouch for coins
- falchion
- two throwing axes, one dagger
On his back and shoulders
- waterskin
- ranger's kit in a backpack
- healer's kit strapped to the bottom of the pack in a wooden case
- quiver holding several javelins
- dwarven longhammer
He walks using the butt of a longspear as his stick
Adventurer's sash can hold almost anything you need to get to quickly without loss of verisimilitude. I've had a few characters wear two in a crisscross fashion. Handy haversack comes in when I can afford one; it's entire spiel is auto-organization.
Weapons get their own spots on the body. I won't carry more than I can reasonably accommodate on a character, with a few cinematic exceptions like the rogue who never seems to run out of places to hide a knife, or the master-of-arms who golfbags a dozen weapons a la Firion from Dissidia.
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Hm... if I catch a falling stream of molten lead in my handy haversack, will I still be able to pull out any other items I have in there, per the item description?
(You know the gunslinger's motto: when life gives you molten lead, make bullets.)
Beside the damage from the molten lead, it would burst as it would almost certainly exceed its weight limits. They are fairly low.
In fact, each is like a bag of holding and can actually hold material of as much as 2 cubic feet in volume or 20 pounds in weight. The large central portion of the pack can contain up to 8 cubic feet or 80 pounds of material.
Did you mean a equipment list like this?
Also... Chests in a Haversack? Those must be tiny chests since the Haversack can only hold 80lbs in the biggest pouch (a small chest weighs 25lbs Adventure's Armory pg 19)
I love that the third item down on your PC's person is Alchemist's Kindness. It comes before your armor or even your holy symbol. Priorities...
The title of the thread is gear and tidiness. Reminds me of a monk/bard NPC I had in one campaign a little bit ago. She had taken the vow of cleanliness. She'd had multiple wands of Prestidigitation made and used them constantly. She also made a point to have Mending and Make Whole. Finally she took Profession: tailor.
See, she was a dervish of Saranrae. Moreover, in her spare time she was a professionally trained dancer. She eventually started a school. In my homebrew Varisian gypsies are the Dunevain and this girl was one of them. She set out to train the girls in the frontier town of their own racial heritage through dance.
The NPC's name was Aileen. She was prim and proper, wore traditional costumes; one for dancing and another for fighting, and never left a hair out of place or a spot on her clothes. Any time the party was in camp or back in town Aileen was mending and cleaning their gear. You talk about tidy - this girl was it.
As for her own gear though she didn't have much since I used Str as her dump stat. She had a scimitar, a sling with bullets, and her clothing. On her horse she typically carried a pack of camping gear. For some reason I ALWAYS pictured braids or elaborate hairdos when considering Aileen: lawful alignment, traditional dancing, formalized costumes.