Quote Originally Posted by snikrept View Post
r.e. Tarquin being super prepared: Were he a PC, Tarquin would be *normally* prepared by the standards of many campaigns. Or even underprepared. All he brought for healing options is that jar of ointment that effectively does CLW, at his level of resources? And he didn't even bring it with him into the dungeon? And he has no backup damage weapon?
Grossly underprepared. My wife's current character has 8 different weapons on her person (most in extradimensional storage), an endless quiver + a bunch of special material arrows, 3 magically summoned mounts and two normal mounts (one flying, one non), two command word items that teleport her and companions to refuge locations, and a number of other items.

She's not crazy prepared. No one in the game would accuse her of being crazy prepared, heck she's only got TWO ways to teleport out of trouble and both of them need a command word, that's almost crazy LACK of preparations.

Previous editions (and Tarquin started under previous editions), I've seen characters much lower level than we know Tarquin to be duel by throwing their spare magic items at each other. They had bags of holding FULL of +1 and +2 crap that the random treasure tables and various modules in those older allegedly low magic games gave out (almost all your XP came from found items, but then you were largely stuck with the items given the lack of "magic-mart").

Tarquin has ONE backup weapon, ONE weak healing item, both back with his pack rather than in his extradimensional storage, and people are complaining about the level of preparation being too HIGH!

DougL