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Old 07-28-2012, 06:33 PM
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In one of the games I played, we liberated a small town from a bunch of desperado's. The village elders were very helpfull with directions and what have you.

Then we went through the bad guy's lair. Some ammo, yes. A few weapons, granted. Some food, ok.

100 gallons of clorox bleach they had liberated from a wrecked grocery store.

We gave the weapons and ammo to the village. We also gave them 80 gallons of bleach. With instructions from our first aid guy on how to use the clorox to purify water. We kept the food.

There were only five of us in our little band. We only had so many jerry cans for water. The rest of the cans were for methanol.

Nice "reward" from the GM.

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Old 07-28-2012, 06:49 PM
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A pound of real coffee. Sugar. From Jericho... bags of salt...

A toothbrush or razor blade

An empty notebook or a pencil.

A canister of unexposed film.

Light bulbs.

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Old 07-28-2012, 07:51 PM
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A pound of real coffee. Sugar. From Jericho... bags of salt...

A toothbrush or razor blade

An empty notebook or a pencil.

A canister of unexposed film.

Light bulbs.

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A 10 day round of Tetracycline

A stray, cute kitten

100 lbs of flour

A sealed box of condoms

2 cords of cut, stacked, seasoned firewood

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Old 07-28-2012, 08:53 PM
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An outboard motor for a boat.

A set of wrenches.

Batteries, unopened.

A box of unopened packs of ball-point pens.

One of my players is asking for a bow and arrows.
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Old 07-28-2012, 09:18 PM
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Several cans of black powder that can be used in muskets and rifles.

Bottles of multivitamins and supplements.

A crate holding boxes of good boots and shoes.

Spices like pepper, ginger, nutmeg, etc.. from places that might as well be on the moon for those left in Europe.
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One of my players is asking for a bow and arrows.
Long Bow and Arrows is covered as basic equipment in the V1.0 ruleset. The "Longbow" skill can be used to make either...
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A big box of men's underwear, size 30-32. Cause your momma says make sure you have clean underwear.

A 5 gallon jug full of pre 1982 copper pennies. All ready to be melted down and turned into bullets or something.

Several boxes of aluminum wrap. Good for cooking!
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Cans of insect repellent. Or ant powder. Or de-lousing shampoo.
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Long Bow and Arrows is covered as basic equipment in the V1.0 ruleset. The "Longbow" skill can be used to make either...
Yes, but that means I'm not going to make it easy for him....
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Yes, but that means I'm not going to make it easy for him....
Never said that...


On Topic: baby food and powdered formula. Any adult is going to want those in trade for their kids.

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While this is true, I make it a very difficult task to make a good one. MOST archers do not, or have never built a self bow or arrow. Yes, there is a growing number that are into traditional archery and making their own bows and arrows, as well as string and arrowheads too. But the number is still small over all. But it's your game, call it like you see it.
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Old 07-30-2012, 04:47 PM
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Ooh, just thought of a few more: pot, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine - basically any stuff from an evidence locker like that.

While purity would be a problem, a hospital in 2000 would already be operating on less-than-nothing and any infusion (no pun intended) of palliative medicines or even something that could be refined into an anesthetic would be invaluable.
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Old 07-30-2012, 05:48 PM
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While this is true, I make it a very difficult task to make a good one. MOST archers do not, or have never built a self bow or arrow. Yes, there is a growing number that are into traditional archery and making their own bows and arrows, as well as string and arrowheads too. But the number is still small over all. But it's your game, call it like you see it.
Yes, you're right. I happen to be one of those few.

The rules make it a DIF task, and I'm alright with that...
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A pound of real coffee. Sugar. From Jericho... bags of salt...

A toothbrush or razor blade

An empty notebook or a pencil.

A canister of unexposed film.

Light bulbs.

Insulin for a diabetic
Salt will return to the origin of the expression 'worth your salt'. Yep it's mined, but distribution is a problem and it is 'thought to be' essential for food preservation, which is true for some items and methods.

Insulin while it's a good idea, I seriously, very seriously doubt you would find insulin that is not gone south by 2000. If it's the refrigerated type, give it a few days to weeks to go bad. I wonder what the shelf life is on the other stuff. And by 2000, based on the stuff going bad quickly and the diets people are on, I doubt there will be anyone left to take the insulin unless they are type I.. and their life is short if no insulin is avail muy pronto.

Just a thought, but good ideas.. we subbed antibiotics or pain killers for the insulin.
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Old 07-30-2012, 04:11 PM
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hummmmmm really good ideas. How about a bundle of clean shop rags, you know the ones about a foot square, usually red. I think they are a better deal than the TP, as they can be resued after wash and boil.

Or cloth diapers? Not the landfiller plasitc and absorbent.

Or a barrel of powdered chlorine rather than the washing 5% OTC washing bleach. Even a bucket will make gallons and gallons of the 5% mix, and kept dry last years. Found in hardware stores, swimming pool supply, or any place that sells pool supplies. People looking for food would pass on it, lost in the maze.
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