Inventory
Throughout your adventures, you'll need a wide assortment of equipment to survive in the wilds. The gear you carry lets you interact with your surroundings in new ways, whether it be sword, shield, concoctions, or the humble rope.
Your inventory is the assortment of gear you carry with you. Each piece of gear takes up a number of slots, called inventory slots. You have an amount of slots equal to 8 + Might, to a maximum of 12.
The number of slots an item occupies follows these general guidelines:
Items that can be carried in one hand take up 1 slot.
If it requires two hands, the item takes up 2 slots.
If it is a heavy item on top of that, it takes up 3 slots.
Coins and worn clothing don't count as objects for the purposes of inventory slots (armor isn't considered clothing).
Very small item – hand-sized, or smaller, such as as candles, balls of yarn, pieces of chalk, figurines, and loose-leaf papers – can be written in the same slot of there is space. Write small.
Every item has one of three qualities: crude, fine, or superior. An item's quality determines the size of its supply die, which you roll to determine whether an item is destroyed or consumed upon use. The item's listed in this chapter and most items you find are crude by default.
Crude: d4
Fine: d6
Superior: d8
When you use an item or tool in your inventory, you must usually make a supply check to see if it is used up. You make a supply check by rolling the item's supply die. On a 1 or 2, the item is depleted, and you must erase it from your inventory.
The armaments and armor listed in this chapter are crude, but fine and superior equipment can be crafted during the game. These items gain +1 traits.
In general, you only need to make a supply check for your weapons and armor when you use them for an unintended purpose: for example, using a helm to prop up a raised stone door, or using a maul to smash open a locked chest. When you use your weapons and armor in combat, there is no risk that they will break, but a few enemies may have abilities that can destroy ordinary equipment. Enchanted weapons and armor are always immune to these effects.
You must eat whenever you take a moment's rest or a night's rest. If you cannot, you lose 1 endurance. When you eat, make a depletion check for one of the rations in your inventory. Each ration you carry takes up one inventory slot.
Characters are able to create some of what they need in the field using raw materials they find. Resources are abstracted into two categories: ingredients and materials. Certain actions, such as crafting or practicing alchemy require you to expend resources. When you spend a resource, you don't make a depletion check–simply erase it from your inventory. Each unit of resource takes up one slot.
... represent organic matter useful in cooking, alchemy, or ritual magic, such as herbs and monster remains. You spend ingredients to attempts actions like cooking or practicing the art of alchemy.
... represent scraps of wood, metal, leather, and other substances that can be used for crafting items. You spends material to craft and upgrade equipment and other items.
Don't get bogged down in the finer details of ingredients and materials. If a player finds a pile of leather that you say is a material and uses it later to make a lantern, it is not worth it to spend time worrying about plausability. Once a resource is added to a character's inventory, let the player treat it as a game token.