D&D 5E "I Forgot I Had It"

[nevin]

A painful lesson I've failed to learn over and over again. It cracked me up when I learned PF2 has a feat you can take that let's the DM just tell you when you're chasing a total red herring.

wow why not just let the DM play for them....LOL

 

[DND_Reborn]

Forgetting inventory items have never been an issue that I can recall, however forgetting class features or spells has happened.

 

[Charlaquin]

My players forget their class features all the time, but NEVER forget what their magic items can do.

Forgetting inventory items have never been an issue that I can recall, however forgetting class features or spells has happened.

Seems like your players could learn something from each other

 

[DND_Reborn]

Seems like your players could learn something from each other

IMO it is just 5E has PCs with too much "going on", especially when a player has a spellcaster.

It's gotten to the point where index cards and sticky notes have become essential role-playing tools for some of them.

 

[Umbran]

Heh.

Going into the original Ravenloft, I forgot I had a scroll of Wish until 5 party members were down...

 

[Burnside]

I once had an entire 4-member party forget that one of them was a werewolf, including the player who was the werewolf. And I did a bunch of stuff to try to remind them. They had several in-game days to deal with it, and a cleric who could have prepared Remove Curse during multiple long rests but just didn't. The full moon finally arrived and the player turned when they were all resting inside Leomund's Tiny Hut and she started eating them in their sleep.

 

[iserith]

I once had an entire 4-member party forget that one of them was a werewolf, including the player who was the werewolf. And I did a bunch of stuff to try to remind them. They had several in-game days to deal with it, and a cleric who could have prepared Remove Curse during multiple long rests but just didn't. The full moon finally arrived and the player turned when they were all resting inside Leomund's Tiny Hut and she started eating them in their sleep.

Maybe they were quietly hoping to gain all the benefits of being a lycanthrope without that one inconvenient downside of eating your friends.

 

[J.Quondam]

Maybe they were quietly hoping to gain all the benefits of being a lycanthrope without that one inconvenient downside of eating your friends.

As they say in the Old Country: "Never use sriracha-flavored healing ointment bought from a cackling night hag."

 

[Lanefan]

Once, the player of a captured PC in my game remembered she had a Dimension Door device just after the party had gone to great lengths to rescue her from her prison cell....

 

[James Gasik]

This happens to my groups all the time. I tend to plan encounters a few sessions in advance, and if I know they're going to want fire resistance, I make sure to drop a few potions or scrolls in their way long before said encounter.

My group, however, tends to do one of two things: sell it if you can, or forget it to even write it down in the first place.

And no matter how many times this happens, they still can't quite grasp what I'm doing (even when I explain it after the fact). Well except for my roommate, Matt, who deserves a thread of his own about times the DM forgets a player has something, lol....