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Previous Section: [[04 🔵 Toxins and Drugs]]
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# Starvation and Dehydration
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Characters who don't eat or drink suffer the effects of [[06 🔵 Exhaustion|exhaustion]]. Exhaustion caused by a lack of food or water can't be removed until the character eats and drinks the full required amount.
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## Food
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A typical character needs to eat one pound of food per day. You can make food last longer by eating half rations. Eating half rations in a day counts as half a day without food.
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A character can go without food for a number of days equal to 3 + Stamina (minimum 1). Beyond that, a character automatically suffers one level of exhaustion at the end of each day they haven't eaten.
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One normal day of eating resets the count of days without food to zero.
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## Water
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A character needs one gallon of water per day or two gallons per day if the weather is hot. A character who drinks only half that much water must succeed on a DV 15 Stamina save or suffer one level of exhaustion at the end of the day. A character who drinks even less water automatically suffers one level of exhaustion at the end of the day.
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If the character already has one level of exhaustion, the character suffers two levels each day with little or no water.
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## When to track food and water
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In certain campaigns or games, tracking how much food and water the PCs are carrying can feel like a hassle. In those situations, as along as your GM approves, it is fine to assume you have enough rations and water to avoid starvation or dehydration. However, resource management plays a critical role in making exploration heavy campaigns and adventures feel dangerous and meaningful. Tracking food and water also allows survivalist characters like rangers to really shine.
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So before handwaving resource management, make sure your group discusses if a campaign, adventure, or story arc could actually benefit from using these rules.
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# Next Section
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[[06 🔵 Suffocating]]
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