I noticed this on Tuesday in our Game Session. I think it is a cool feature as long as everyone is suspending belief in Encumbrance. I meticulously track the weight of items even adding custom items with weight allottments, so that would skew any weight management. 10 2-man tents? Yeah, it's in the Party Inventory. 200 pounds of Firewood? No problem. 3,987,265 Copper Peices? Nah! I'm carrying that on my belt! So yeah... if I get a campaign where we ignore reality entirely and actually share items (the miserly hoarders), then I'm looking forward to using this!
I noticed this on Tuesday in our Game Session. I think it is a cool feature as long as everyone is suspending belief in Encumbrance. I meticulously track the weight of items even adding custom items with weight allottments, so that would skew any weight management. 10 2-man tents? Yeah, it's in the Party Inventory. 200 pounds of Firewood? No problem. 3,987,265 Copper Peices? Nah! I'm carrying that on my belt! So yeah... if I get a campaign where we ignore reality entirely and actually share items (the miserly hoarders), then I'm looking forward to using this!
It doesn't skew encumbrance or require suspension of disbelief. Party inventory doesn't represent what any one person is carrying, it represents what no one is carrying. It's what's on your wagon, or boat, or in your bastion.
Also if you equip items in the shared inventory, they do contribute towards your inventory.
If you're using the party inventory as an extension of character inventory, you're using it incorrectly and that will skew things—as will misusing any tool on the character sheet.
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For now, just money.
But since once of my PCs is in charge of inventory, it could include a great many things.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
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-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
The 3000 Candles purchased during their most recent Bastion turn!
The horse!
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
This is really great and well thought out. Thank you all D&D Beyond.
This does prompt the question is there anything like this with Bastions coming?
I noticed this on Tuesday in our Game Session. I think it is a cool feature as long as everyone is suspending belief in Encumbrance. I meticulously track the weight of items even adding custom items with weight allottments, so that would skew any weight management. 10 2-man tents? Yeah, it's in the Party Inventory. 200 pounds of Firewood? No problem. 3,987,265 Copper Peices? Nah! I'm carrying that on my belt! So yeah... if I get a campaign where we ignore reality entirely and actually share items (the miserly hoarders), then I'm looking forward to using this!
It doesn't skew encumbrance or require suspension of disbelief. Party inventory doesn't represent what any one person is carrying, it represents what no one is carrying. It's what's on your wagon, or boat, or in your bastion.
Also if you equip items in the shared inventory, they do contribute towards your inventory.
If you're using the party inventory as an extension of character inventory, you're using it incorrectly and that will skew things—as will misusing any tool on the character sheet.
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