1. A quiver of arrows would count as one item, but please be reasonable about how many your character could be carrying at once. There are also materials in the world to make arrows, so it might be a CR-building opportunity to gather those with other PCs as arrows are lost or damaged! Additionally, items can be gained later through AC bonuses, so if you wanted to request other weapons/arrows/etc from your character's world down the line we would help to facilitate that.
2. Non-humans are perfectly welcome, but with a caveat: the Adamant's survivors are human, and may treat what they perceive as 'strange' with additional wariness compared to how they will treat standard human PCs. Imagine how a normal human would react to a magical dog that's the incarnation of the sun! While we would like to stress that our NPCs will not be sexist, racist or homophobic+transphobic, we want this to be realistic without being the kind of thing that would be exhaustive to play — so it would be up to you to determine whether or not you'd wish to engage with that element or handwave it! Both are valid.
However: a character such as Amaterasu may struggle with the smartwatch/network options, but either a PC or an engineering NPC could possibly help modify it to work better for her! With admittedly limited canon familiarity, we believe Claptrap would be able to manage on that front, but the same thing would apply if not.
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Now, onto the questions!
1. A quiver of arrows would count as one item, but please be reasonable about how many your character could be carrying at once. There are also materials in the world to make arrows, so it might be a CR-building opportunity to gather those with other PCs as arrows are lost or damaged! Additionally, items can be gained later through AC bonuses, so if you wanted to request other weapons/arrows/etc from your character's world down the line we would help to facilitate that.
2. Non-humans are perfectly welcome, but with a caveat: the Adamant's survivors are human, and may treat what they perceive as 'strange' with additional wariness compared to how they will treat standard human PCs. Imagine how a normal human would react to a magical dog that's the incarnation of the sun! While we would like to stress that our NPCs will not be sexist, racist or homophobic+transphobic, we want this to be realistic without being the kind of thing that would be exhaustive to play — so it would be up to you to determine whether or not you'd wish to engage with that element or handwave it! Both are valid.
However: a character such as Amaterasu may struggle with the smartwatch/network options, but either a PC or an engineering NPC could possibly help modify it to work better for her! With admittedly limited canon familiarity, we believe Claptrap would be able to manage on that front, but the same thing would apply if not.