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D and D's decanter of endless water is
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one of my favorite magic items not
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because it's mechanically powerful but
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because it has such interesting story
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implications kind of a classic fantasy
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Trope is a mega City in the middle of a
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desert and you always have to answer the
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question how do they make that work
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where are they getting their water how
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are they growing food all of those
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things and the decanter of endless water
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provides a pretty neat explanation for
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that you can use a single action to use
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the decanter of endless water and create
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30 gallons of either fresh or salt water
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if we assume that a a human equivalent
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needs about 2 gallons of water per day
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in desert conditions that means for one
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action you can create enough water for
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15 people so spend some time doing a
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little bit of math and you can figure
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out how many people you can support on a
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single decanter of of endless water now
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that does only account for you know
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portable water needs it doesn't account
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for agriculture animals things like that
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but you can do some math and and
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eventually figure out how big of a
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population you can support from a single
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decanter of endless water
