Last session, one of my players (Fede V.) decided that Falquian, his figher/mage-slayer, while in the city, will stock the portable hole he had gained the previous session. But he didn't tell me and we didn't do all the roleplay of the "shopping & buying"; he just made the list and anounced he was done. The dialogue was something like:
Player: "That's it, all we need is in the portable hole."
DM: "W-what? All right, read me the list."
Player: (reads the list aloud)
(everyone laughs)
DM: "You mail me that list, I'm gonna put it in the blog!"
And so here it is:
a freestanding bookshelf (already there)
a worktable (already there)
a comfortable cot (already there)
3 barrels of dried food (already there)
4 barrels of fresh water (3 were already there)
1 barrel of oil
5 bedrolls
5 winter blankets
5 cold weather outfits
500 ft. of hempen rope
10 lbs. of soap
a shovel
a miner's pick
a crowbar
100 trail rations
5 sacks (empty)
2 iron pots
flint & steel
2 tents
firewood (for some days)
a small steel mirror
3 manacles
50 iron spikes
10 wooden stakes
10 everburning torches
a grappling hook
a 10 ft. wooden ladder
a portable ram
a sledge
20 flasks of holy water
I don't know if all that fits in a portable hole and didn't do the math, but since I liked it so much I allowed it. As I recently read here, saying yes is more fun.
Player: "That's it, all we need is in the portable hole."
DM: "W-what? All right, read me the list."
Player: (reads the list aloud)
(everyone laughs)
DM: "You mail me that list, I'm gonna put it in the blog!"
And so here it is:
a freestanding bookshelf (already there)
a worktable (already there)
a comfortable cot (already there)
3 barrels of dried food (already there)
4 barrels of fresh water (3 were already there)
1 barrel of oil
5 bedrolls
5 winter blankets
5 cold weather outfits
500 ft. of hempen rope
10 lbs. of soap
a shovel
a miner's pick
a crowbar
100 trail rations
5 sacks (empty)
2 iron pots
flint & steel
2 tents
firewood (for some days)
a small steel mirror
3 manacles
50 iron spikes
10 wooden stakes
10 everburning torches
a grappling hook
a 10 ft. wooden ladder
a portable ram
a sledge
20 flasks of holy water
I don't know if all that fits in a portable hole and didn't do the math, but since I liked it so much I allowed it. As I recently read here, saying yes is more fun.
That's cool - I'm thinking of tossing a PO at my players just to make things easier on them. They are hauling a lot of supplies and treasures in the Underdark right now.
ReplyDelete@Bruno - Thanks for the comment follower #5! Yes, a Portable Hole, just like a Bag of Holding or a Handy Haversack, is one of those things that are really welcome by those greedy hoarding basterds... I mean, by the party.
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