Ghân’s been thinking about his Magnifying Glass treasure. The extra level of Detect is OK, but the extra ID (DM, this will help with Identify, won’t it?) should go to Deor. 
So I’ll post that decision in the main thread, and trust you jolly pleasant chaps will see me right next time there’s loot!
I forgot to mention, there is also a large baby boom occurring. There are a lot of empty lands and much more hope in the future. Empty lands & Hope = homesteaders and large families. Hobbits of course and even Dwarves are having populations booms.
This is an excellent idea. I will endeavor to do so.
That is about right, but he served an amazing short apprenticeship. He started young at age 10 and completed it well at age 20. In fact that is why Theogrim was here, to celebrate his youngest brother’s promotion to journeyman mage.
That is most generous of you, however, you can just loan it to him as needed. Whoever is casting the detection or ID spell could just use it. This would also hold true later when the Cleric joins you and later yet when Gil-Gandel begins casting spells and using legend lore.
Seconded. Very handy to have (although I also printed it out).
Okey-dokey!
I will have a few days pass as intelligence is gathered and preparations are made.
Caramir meets with you about once a day for the next 3 days.
How many people needed to buy stuff or find stuff?
I took care of some of this in the game thread.
So can I spend the next three days training and what not, improve my ability to hit with my chosen weapons etc?
Also, I don’t think I need to buy anything, but once again if there is anything the party needs let me know.
Oh, I do want to get a portable shelter of some sort for the party. Anyone know what I should be looking for?
A nice, big, light campaign tent, perhaps of Elven-make? Dunno.
I don’t have a good answer to that, except a belief that a portable shelter makes it easier to be seen, tougher to set and break camp and harder to keep watch and alert people.
I feel like I am missing something. Other than a Daern’s instant Fortress (no way those are available here) I cannot recall another portable shelter being used that was not a war wagon or boat.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but I would think tent = portable shelter. Basic camping supplies to protect from the elements, something the fellowship did not have (good thing it didn’t rain much, else they’d all have been fighting the common cold along with the Uruk-Hai).
How much detail do you want on our field packing, What Exit?? Do we need to get down to detail about flint and tinder, bedroll, x days of rations? My preference was never to micromanage that stuff, and introduce difficulties as ‘plot devices’ (i.e. despite your best efforts, raccoons still got to your rations or you lost your bedroll when your canoe tipped and it was not securely fastened).
I agree with D_Odds that micro-managing takes time away from roleplaying.
How about if pack bedrolls and some equivalent of a tarpaulin or two. The horses can carry them.
If there’s a downpour, at least we could set up a simple dry shelter. There would still be visibility for guards and it wouldn’t take too long to roll them up…
What Exit?, you need to work on your fantasies…
Agreed. I do not want to micromanage this part at all.
You are just in the wrong city. Minas Tirith is almost as much a military complex as a city, actually maybe it is more of one. Further, there really are Paladin types all through the city staff and that staff is energized by an extremely charismatic benevolent dictator and his even more charismatic Queen. Half the soldiers would gladly give their life to save the Queen. It is not quite a normal place.
People in Minas Tirith are inspired to be good and dedicated. The fact that the threat of total annihilation is now gone after a millennium of decay and that the economy is booming hugely after centuries of stagnation does much to buoy popular support to levels unheard of in the real world. While Aragorn & Arwen live, no shadow of even the smallest sort will fall on Minas Tirith.
Now even Osgiliath would have been more to your liking. That is actually the larger city, but it will takes decades before the population rises to the levels once seen. There is a very large itinerant work force of labor rebuilding. Some will stay and some will go and all that comes with such concepts should be expected.
What Exit?: I have just sent you a copy of Mulligan Took at 4th.
I will also be looking to replenish my sling bullets and trail rations.
I’ll look for it. Bullets are cheap. 5cp per or 5sp for silver bullets. Did you note the ones that Merry gave you?
Stones are free. 
Trail Rations will be provided by Gondor. No fear there.
How about the other half?
If that isn’t a recipe for organized crime, graft, and a large influx of those working the oldest profession, I don’t know what is. Big Brother must really be watching. Even Sauron wasn’t this good.
Maybe I should have been chaotic neutral (and had a name ending in a vowel, with a cute nickname). This town is just one big employment opportunity!
Right Minas Tirith is the impossible city, might as well be serving on the Enterprise. The city is 99% good and tending probably 98% LG.
Osgiliath is ripe for corruption, but so many of the labor supes are Dwarves that it is only is the strictly human areas that things get interesting. Still very little graft to be found. Give it some time.
I am reasonably sure that in the still large areas of abandoned housing in Osgiliath the oldest profession is being well plied. However as a fine upstanding person that wishing to keep as true as possible to the Professor’s vision, we will see little of that seedy side of the city in the game thread.
Do we have enough portage to carry trail rations for a hobbit?
I agree completely with this. The shadow of Evil, appearing over thousands of years, has been completely lifted.
Good has triumphed (at least in the city) and there is a wonderful atmosphere.
The King has returned!
Amazingly Hobbits can go to third rations (normal human consumption) for very long periods.
But just in case, how big a supply wagon can our mounts pull? 
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