D&D: individual poundage
Pathfinder 2: Abstracted Bulk
Lancer: Pick up half your mech or more if you get the right loadout
Inventory management can be fun if implemented well by the system. See Traveller. “We’ve got 3dT of cargo space left. The locals are paying crap for petrochemicals but they’re having a fire sale on marble. If we basically give away that benzene that no one’s bought in 3 months, we can fill up on marble that some architect will definitely snatch up at the next class A starport.”
Watching with a devious grin from behind your DM shield as one of your players foolishly becomes potassium deficient on a march
Your 15-minutes of post-combat looting recovers…
-ten dice rolls later-
Three arrows, saving you …
-twenty seconds of math-
0.3 copper!
Our party moves the bag or bags of holding between characters. But the ones designated for party supplies managed by a single player.
Step 1) Cut a hole in the bag of holding
Step 2) Put your dick in the bag of holding
Step 3) Have your desired person open the bag of holding
Step 1.5) The bag of holding is destroyed and all your items are scattered across the Astral Plane
As someone playing a non-dwarf in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2e, I very much enjoy the finagling of inventory encumbrance between my own character and something/one else, like the dwarf in the party, or the horse I RAW need to own in order to progress into the career that my character is best suited for.
I go Bushwalking/ overnight hikes as a hobby. Inventory management is very important when you carry everything you need to survive in your pack. When I started rp-ing it took me a while to adjust to the fact that the same people who are hyper-fixated in the “reality” of Spell effects could not be bothered to pack a tent. Though I admit that the DM did not care about tents either…
Pshaw, D&D barely even has encumbrance rules. Gotta play GURPS where your movement and dodge get worse the more you’re carrying, and bags of holding don’t exist.
"This is Keepus, the Bard. He sings and has all the stuff.“
“Oh, I just put them into the portable hole for convenience.”
I put each of the bags of holding Inside another, and then in a stroke of what I can only describe as genius, put the last bag inside the first.
I read that in his voice.
