Ammunition

   PureChance asked: “Also, what’re your rules for recovery of ammunition / thrown weapons after fights? No recovery? Chance based on attack roll or skill check? Chance based on luck roll?”

   Good question!

   I personally love Angry’s arrow rule:

• Every hit is marked off.
• Every miss is not marked off.
  • EXCEPT for Critical Misses (Natural 1s)—then mark it off.
• When you get back to town, you must buy a new quiversful of arrows or caseload of crossbow bolts.
• You can only have one quiversful of arrows (or bolts) at a time
  • though you can have more quiversful of bundled arrows (or bolts)  in your backpack that takes an action to “reload” into your quiver (or boltcase).
• If your ammunition reaches 0, then you’re out until you buy more.

   This keeps the bookkeeping to a minimum, and means that you don’t have to worry about forgetting to recover half your arrows you fired. But the rule holds steadfast! Whether you shot a single arrow or technically shot 35 (with our hand-waved recovery!), either way, you have to buy a new quiversful of arrows (or bolts) when you get back to town. If you were carrying around several sets of arrows or bolts, then mark off one of those sets, instead (you’ve already bought them).

   This rule applies to arrows, crossbow bolts, sling bullets, or any other form of recoverable/retrievable ammunition you carry around, including javelins.