What solutions are you using to manage the equipment that is not literally strapped to you? After enough time of adventuring you get to the point where some of your equipment is on your mount or vehicle, some may be back at home/HQ, some may be in one of the various handy magic containers, some may be in some kind of bank.... D&D Beyond comes tantalizingly close to equipment management - some equipment is assigned a location, but that's just the stuff that's literally attached to you. It would be great if that location could also be some "container" - saddlebag, chest on wagon, chest at home, Bag of Holding, etc... D&D Beyond also teases us with "tags" for equipment only... like location, we can't actually do anything with them.
So, I think I'm just going to make a spreadsheet to use in parallel, but I'm curious what others have done. And besides managing your own equipment, how do you manage equipment that is owned by the Party?
I generally don't worry too much about it unless there's a player who's egregiously abusing their carrying capacity, like a bard in one game I was in who insisted that his character was walking around carrying two longswords, a halberd, a glaive, a longbow, six handaxes, six daggers, a mace, and two quarterstaffs.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Something I once did which was incredibly helpful, was to make a picture of a backpack on my paper character sheet, basically an outline so I could write on the inside things like "mess kit" "tinderbox" "5 days rations" and so on. I did the same for the saddlebags, and even the clothes, drawing an outline of a humanoid and writing "traveler's clothes, chain mail armor (AC 16)" to keep track of what was what. It was rudimentary and kinda looked funny on a character sheet, but it really helped me manage my equipment!
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What solutions are you using to manage the equipment that is not literally strapped to you? After enough time of adventuring you get to the point where some of your equipment is on your mount or vehicle, some may be back at home/HQ, some may be in one of the various handy magic containers, some may be in some kind of bank.... D&D Beyond comes tantalizingly close to equipment management - some equipment is assigned a location, but that's just the stuff that's literally attached to you. It would be great if that location could also be some "container" - saddlebag, chest on wagon, chest at home, Bag of Holding, etc... D&D Beyond also teases us with "tags" for equipment only... like location, we can't actually do anything with them.
So, I think I'm just going to make a spreadsheet to use in parallel, but I'm curious what others have done. And besides managing your own equipment, how do you manage equipment that is owned by the Party?
You could add the location in "notes" for your item if it is not on you.
Some suggestions here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/72568-mount-equipment#c3
I've seen mention that they are working on containers, but it's probably a ways off.
When I received a bag of holding I created a Google sheet and shared it with the rest of the party.
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I generally don't worry too much about it unless there's a player who's egregiously abusing their carrying capacity, like a bard in one game I was in who insisted that his character was walking around carrying two longswords, a halberd, a glaive, a longbow, six handaxes, six daggers, a mace, and two quarterstaffs.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Something I once did which was incredibly helpful, was to make a picture of a backpack on my paper character sheet, basically an outline so I could write on the inside things like "mess kit" "tinderbox" "5 days rations" and so on. I did the same for the saddlebags, and even the clothes, drawing an outline of a humanoid and writing "traveler's clothes, chain mail armor (AC 16)" to keep track of what was what. It was rudimentary and kinda looked funny on a character sheet, but it really helped me manage my equipment!
💙🤍~*Ravenclaw*~ 🔮