Equipping a fantasy adventurer

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Are you active? I'm not sure how active I could be during long fasts. I did a 3 month, limited liquid calorie diet with multivitamins but a lot of that was sitting around and I had excess weight to burn. But then I've also gone two weeks without any calories when I had oral surgery and became very ill when eating again. I didn't think not eating for two weeks while my mouth healed was a big deal until it was.

On the average fantasy quest

A 3 day journey to a dungeon, explore it, kill all kobolds and to get back to town hauling a ton of loot. You gotta figure that's at least a week. I guess you could just endure the hardship as long as nothing went wrong.

In style though I think you'd want to mount an expedition with teams of horses, carts, and underlings to die in the dungeon.

[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm fairly active, although I'm going to curtail my workouts a bit. I imagine heavy labour or adventuring on an empty stomach would be a bit of a challenge, but we could assume that the average fantasy hero would be a bit younger and tougher than me. Of course you would want an army behind you, but most quests assume that is not possible or desirable. Anyway - a week. You gorge yourself, carry some biltong to chew on, catch the odd opportunistic meal. No big deal.