Hunting/fishing & traping results chart

[Drath3n]

I have a western game going and from time to time the players hunt for game. I usually have them roll a survival roll to find tracks then have them track and shoot the game ( probably not doing that right but still pretty new Gurps GM) anyway I would like to have a random chart to roll on for what they find with some info on how much meat they get etc. Would be neat to have one for fishing and trapping but I am not a hunter and this stuff is really just for flavor and don't want to spend hours/days researching and compiling this stuff. I can't be the only one who would like this kind of chart so my thinking that there may already be something like this out there. Tried Google but not getting anything. Does anyone here know of something like this?

[Bruno]

Lowtech Companion 1 has some detailed rules for hunter-gathering survival, including various different ways you can forage for food and the general classes of stuff you get (although not a specific "1-3 - a Deer, 4-6 - 2d6 Rabbits" kinda thing). Specifics are going to be very environmentally specific - no deer on the African savanna, no antelope in the arctic - but it does let you differentiate "looking for big game" vs "looking for small game" vs "fishing" vs "collecting shellfish" vs "gathering plant stuff and/or eggs/baby birds" etc.

[Drath3n]

Originally Posted by Bruno

Lowtech Companion 1 has some detailed rules for hunter-gathering survival, including various different ways you can forage for food and the general classes of stuff you get (although not a specific "1-3 - a Deer, 4-6 - 2d6 Rabbits" kinda thing). Specifics are going to be very environmentally specific - no deer on the African savanna, no antelope in the arctic - but it does let you differentiate "looking for big game" vs "looking for small game" vs "fishing" vs "collecting shellfish" vs "gathering plant stuff and/or eggs/baby birds" etc.

Nice, I'll look into that! Thanks!!

[mlangsdorf]

ATE2: the New World also has some pretty detailed rules on hunting and gathering. A bit of it is in the context of post-apocalyptic wastelands, but it could be adapted to a Western pretty easy. And ATE2: the New World has a fair bit of generic GM advice, including skill use, speeding up combat, and some basic social interaction rules for drifters coming to visit suspicious and isolated communities.

[Christopher R. Rice]

I wrote some pretty detailed rules for my article "Survival at the End" which is (at the end) of Pyramid #3/90: After the End. My designer's notes are here.