Handbook of Heroes

[Keltest]

More or less my take. See my reply above.

Of course, you do run into odd moments in these situations. "Wait. We haven't been tracking food this whole time. Why are we starting now? Has my guy been starving this whole time?" Most players are willing to handwave that sort of issue, but it can come up, and does represent a downside to the technique.

And i'll respond with "No, we just cant assume youre doing it automatically right now because there is no food anywhere."

As far as it goes, its not all that confusing. The situation is "youre trapped in a desert" or something, which most people can wrap their heads around easily enough. Hopefully youre leading with that instead of "ok, so im suddenly tracking food seemingly unprompted."