Dan, thank you. Thank you for shutting down the ‘depends on the game/know your players’ stuff right out of the gate. Nothing takes the steam out of an RPG discussion faster.

That really depends on your players. Some might still want to discuss it, some might not.

Oh, I see what you did there, Chris.

Growing up, J was for for juggling jackalweres.

Its a small thing, but Hero Lab has a custom package in the hero “accessories” that’s a typical adventurer package – backpack, sleeping roll, rations, chalk, rope – so you just have to click one button and your GM can shut up.

In our games, we don’t stress the small equipment much. We ignore the minutia of common spell components and small items, unless they’re major. An example of an exception would be when one of our guys brought his son in one week to play someone else’s character who couldn’t make it (Pathfinder). He had him casting a spell that 1) wasn’t in the character’s schools of emphasis, and 2) his character had never cast it before, and the likelihood that he would have had the required components on hand was incredibly slim. Sure, he could sleep and memorize the spell, but not having a character sheet in front of you and “winging it” is not a license to just go nuts. I let it slide because the kid was 10 and it made him feel included because he could do massive damage, but I told his dad later that we’d have to watch it in the future and not get too nuts.