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Dec 9, 2012 -- 3:10PM, Dirz wrote:

1.  How do you manage arrows in your champaign?
2.  How many arrows do you let your players carry?
3.  How many arrows can fit into a quiver?
4.  I play a campaign in the wilderness, getting into a city or a shop is a rare event, so my players can't regularly find ammunitions.
5.  Do you use any skill to let them create arrows?

1. They keep track.
2.  As many as they want to.  Players usually stock up a couple hundred if they don't see town too often.
3.  It says in that () after the quiver.
4.  Then you should probably not pay attention to it.  Some players like to micromanage.  I know I always do when I'm a player with arrows.  It's not like a ranger can't do anything without ammo.  There's always the abilities that melee.
5.  There isn't one in 4e.  But if you want them to take an active part...Maybe a d20+level for an hour's worth of arrow crafting.  Result equals the amount of arrows.

Dec 9, 2012 -- 4:09PM, Salla wrote:

We don't fuss with tracking minutia like mundane ammunition.  It's simply not worth the effort.

Ditto.  I deduct a few GP per level for them (or, more often, simply didn't buy something if it would leave me with onyl a few GP left) until such time as I can get an endless quiver or some other form of thing which makes me not use them.

Using the default treasure allocations in 4e, a Ranger who hits level 2 has enough money to buy all the arrows he will ever need if he plays all the way to Epic, assuming 7 combat encounter per level, an average of six attacks per round, and combats that average 5.5 rounds. And by level 9, he can trivially afford a Bag of Holding to put them all with literally pocket change.

So keeping track is just busywork.

Past first or second level, it's not really worth keep tracking of. Same with food, since it's so cheap and easy to come by. (What? You're out of rations? Nature/Dungeoneering check, ta da, you've found something edible.)

Now, if you're running a low level zombie apocalypse campaign with lots of dangerous-in-melee monsters, hehehe... Then keeping track can add to the experience. I've actually been meaning to do that for a while now...


Though no one in my latest group uses a ranged weapon. Swordmage, two-weapon Ranger, even the Bard runs into melee, despite being made of paper. The only non-melee member is the Invoker... Come to think of it, even their Companion is a melee oriented Druid. And I never used Artillery monsters... Hmmm...