Does PC equipment tend to go into Hammerspace when not in use?

[Tinker Gnome]

Hammerspace - Television Tropes & Idioms

Hehe, I have noticed in my games, that while PCs will often say they have stuff in pack of some sort. For purposes of movement(like say through a narrow area or where their packs might not be allowed for whatever reason) they tend to be able to pull out items easily. I do not mind this, and honestly, I would not care if they did not even have a pack, as it really serves no purpose anyway in our games.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Yeah this is something I view as, "ease of gaming is more important". So my PCs tend to use hammerspace. Though I do sometimes reference items, their pack, clothes and what not for flavour for certain things. Like with squeezing through a space it could be less the space that is the issue but that their gear keeps getting caught on things.

Packs and gear do come up, but only when it serves a good purpose. So, a player may say they drop a belt to the ground where whatever was contained, etc.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Always (well often anyway) solved IMC by the first magic item the PCs acquire,

Bag of Holding.

 

[roguerouge]

Free action to drop stuff explains a lot of it. ("I drop my pack" becomes an assumed thing and thus unvoiced.) How I get my pack back when I need antitoxin or a silver dagger after I've moved across the room is probably better left uncontemplated.

 

[Doug McCrae]

My character in a Buffy game had a magic leather trenchcoat out of which he could pull any number of weapons. It was called the Coat of Arms.

 

[Oni]

Someone posted a webcomic strip on this very topic in another thread not so long ago, very funny and spot on. I can't remember the name of it, but it used stills from the LotR movies.

Gah, wish I could remember.

 

[Nifft]

Familiars were like this in earlier editions. Now their status is better codified, and I like that.

Bag of Holding.

Yep yep.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Remathilis]

Someone posted a webcomic strip on this very topic in another thread not so long ago, very funny and spot on. I can't remember the name of it, but it used stills from the LotR movies.

Gah, wish I could remember.

Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » DM of the Rings LXIX:New Dimensions in Storage is what you're looking for. Great comic, btw.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Someone posted a webcomic strip on this very topic in another thread not so long ago, very funny and spot on. I can't remember the name of it, but it used stills from the LotR movies.

Gah, wish I could remember.

The DM of the Rings?

I also agree with mach1.9pants that the Bag of Holding solves this problem.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Whenever we don't feel like being accountants, Hammerspace explains a lot!