So I have noticed ...

[David McNeal]

Kevin, can you make them using rice?

Unless I am greatly mistaken:

Asian joke is Asian.

Thank you Darrell.  It was kind of a joke kinda serious.  If allowed/able to make said packets with rice, I'll buy em (my Kevin Hardy packets need to stand out from the rest).  Just use real rice instead of that "enriched" Uncle Ben's type of crap.

[Jeremiah]

ok to get back to the original point   me and my mom talked about this and we said a quarter a spell packet is a bit much   we would suggest lowering the asking price to 15 bucks per 100. 20 bucks at the most

[Frey]

Id pay 20 bucks for 100 spell packets. 
Id pay 25 even but then again I would rather dig a 6 foot hole than make 100 spell packets myself.
(Yes I have done both and the six foot hole was dug in 98 degree weather)

[Daemien]

(Yes I have done both and the six foot hole was dug in 98 degree weather)

gotta hide the body somehow

[the panther]

i would buy 100 for twenty bucks as well

[Mitzi]

(Yes I have done both and the six foot hole was dug in 98 degree weather)

gotta hide the body somehow

Personally, I prefer the pig farm method, take a little planning but so worth it. 

[Zuzana]

To chime in on the rice, birds don't explode, but it does clog up their digestive system and they die. Exploding is indeed alka seltzer, but who really wants a seagull exploding over you - Have you seen what they eat?  So for the sake of our feathered friends at the park, no rice please. besides, we need the vultures to clean up after us...

[David McNeal]

To chime in on the rice, birds don't explode, but it does clog up their digestive system and they die. Exploding is indeed alka seltzer, but who really wants a seagull exploding over you - Have you seen what they eat?  So for the sake of our feathered friends at the park, no rice please. besides, we need the vultures to clean up after us...

Vultures eat rice?  OK, no rice spell packets.  I always thought that rice wouldn't affect birds adversely, hence why it is often thrown at weddings as the groom and bride leave the chapel.

[Mitzi]

To chime in on the rice, birds don't explode, but it does clog up their digestive system and they die. Exploding is indeed alka seltzer, but who really wants a seagull exploding over you - Have you seen what they eat?  So for the sake of our feathered friends at the park, no rice please. besides, we need the vultures to clean up after us...

Vultures eat rice?  OK, no rice spell packets.  I always thought that rice wouldn't affect birds adversely, hence why it is often thrown at weddings as the groom and bride leave the chapel.

Useless knowledge, got to love it!

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[BeccaH]

Rice doesn't affect birds, far as I know. Main reason most churches won't let you throw it is on the floor it becomes a slip hazard.

It also gets messier than birdseed when wet and doesn't conform with the requirements in the rulebook to use birdseed. Once you start letting people put what they want in spell packets, you get all kinds of stupid stuff packed into packets (macaroni, a couple of BBs to make the packet fly further, sand), so stick to birdseed. Thanks!

[Jeff Hall]

Macaroni shatters inside the packet on the first decent throw, and can lead to being cut by macaroni shards... Happened during a "test" for "safer" packets in Clanthia.  Rice when went is a horrible  mess. You'd be hard pressed to find something that works as well as birdseed.

[ferabird]

Just to throw it out there, due to the absurd behavior of the rangers at one of the parks where I play nero, we've been forced to make packets filled with airsoft pellets.  The rangers were pissing and moaning about how the birdseed would DESTROY the local habitat because they found a packet that had gotten soggy and sprouted, and insisted that some of the seeds were foreign.  Apparently plastic pellets that will never biodegrade are a more nature-friendly option.  Who knew, right?  On the nifty side, filling your packets with glow in the dark pellets makes them REALLY easy to find.  In function, an airsoft packet is a bit lighter than a normal one, and that can throw a caster off a bit.  But they're pretty easy to get used to.

On the amusing side, I've heard of packets filled with just about everything.  Wanna guess what happens when you're tossing packets in a bonfire and one of them was filled with popcorn kernels?  FLAMING SHRAPNEL!

This aside has been brought to you by the letters ADD....

[Ava]

The rangers were pissing and moaning about how the birdseed would DESTROY the local habitat because they found a packet that had gotten soggy and sprouted, and insisted that some of the seeds were foreign.

Call it "pissing and moaning" if you like, but they're fully justified in complaining about this.  Many state parks and such have rules against introducing non-native species(and yes, this includes many types of plant--and their seeds), because what sprouts can kill off the native plants and such.  Plenty of parks, and wedding locations have rules about what you can and can't throw--some allow rice, some allow birdseed, some allow dissolve-in-the-first-rain confetti...and some don't allow any of those.  Up here, if you go to the river there's signs up everywhere about it being illegal to use live crawfish for bait, because a number of species have escaped and started breeding, and it's doing serious damage to the ecosystem.  Ditto for things like transporting firewood--another big no-no around here--because a particular type of beetle just LOVES getting people to cart it around to new hunting/foraging/mating territory.

Kudzu's "harmless" too, right?  That's what the folks who imported it from Japan to use as an ornamental plant thought, anyways...and look what it's done--it earned the nickname "the plant that ate the South" for a reason.  Ditto for brown-headed cowbirds, which not only breed like mad and eat food that the native species have trouble enough finding in the first place, but kill off other species' nestlings in order to dump their own eggs in the nests for the other birds to raise.  Or starlings(aka "flying rats"), which some genius imported from Europe because he thought it'd be wonderful to have every bird ever mentioned in Shakespeare's Complete Works hopping around over here.

So how 'bout give the rangers a break when they're trying to do their job, hm?

/soapbox

[David McNeal]

Apparently plastic pellets that will never biodegrade are a more nature-friendly option.  Who knew, right?!

Actually there are biodegradable pellets used in Airsoft.

[Andrew L.]

Yeah my 20 gram ones are biodegradable. Idk if you can get them in a store i bought mine off evike.com