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.
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.
Greetings Devyd,
When I was reading the announcement about Party Inventory here, I got the impression that it was specifically referring to items being carried, as that is what they described in the first few paragraphs.
I'm not trying to 'well actually' at all, just trying to get a better handle on the intention of the new tool.
I understand this can be used in multiple different ways, but is there a specific 'intent' that was designed for?
Again, I like this idea and am happy it was implemented.
Cheers!
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The intent is that it represents a shared space for communal loot, whatever form that shared space might take. Like I said, this could be your horse and wagon, a pack mule, a bastion, a ship, or whatever.
If something is on your characters person, but not equipped, you will need to move it out of the party inventory and into their inventory, like if you were taking something out of the wagon to use. You can equip things from the inventory directly which will contribute towards your encumbrance and also show everyone else viewing the party inventory that you've equipped it. The idea for that is for items that might get moved around a lot, such as a non-attunement magic item.
The party inventory isn't an extension for character inventory, hence being called "party inventory".
Note: the intent for this feature is based on what the devs described during the dev updates in years gone by. This feature actually predates the WotC acquisition
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But since once of my PCs is in charge of inventory, it could include a great many things.
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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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The party Wagon. We load all the spare supplies in it and now I don't have to maintain it alone.
Greetings Devyd,
When I was reading the announcement about Party Inventory here, I got the impression that it was specifically referring to items being carried, as that is what they described in the first few paragraphs.
I'm not trying to 'well actually' at all, just trying to get a better handle on the intention of the new tool.
I understand this can be used in multiple different ways, but is there a specific 'intent' that was designed for?
Again, I like this idea and am happy it was implemented.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
The intent is that it represents a shared space for communal loot, whatever form that shared space might take. Like I said, this could be your horse and wagon, a pack mule, a bastion, a ship, or whatever.
If something is on your characters person, but not equipped, you will need to move it out of the party inventory and into their inventory, like if you were taking something out of the wagon to use. You can equip things from the inventory directly which will contribute towards your encumbrance and also show everyone else viewing the party inventory that you've equipped it. The idea for that is for items that might get moved around a lot, such as a non-attunement magic item.
The party inventory isn't an extension for character inventory, hence being called "party inventory".
Note: the intent for this feature is based on what the devs described during the dev updates in years gone by. This feature actually predates the WotC acquisition
Find my D&D Beyond articles here