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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5550370" data-attributes="member: 6669384">On a more general note, don't be afraid to have the party invest a bit to expand the spell caster's spell book.I recall a campaign where the DM was being a stickler about carrying capacity, carrying feed for your horses, etc.We frustrated him by pooling a bit of coin and buying our Wiz' a scroll of Shrink Item.  That, and a chest that was 5 cubic feet.Once the spell was in her book, she could prepare more or just bring it on finger.  (The DM hated all forms of item crafting, and even made scroll paper hard to get and very expensive.)Now we could carry our supplies for a few days and when we ran low, out comes the chest and we re-stock.  Add whatever loot we'd gathered and zip it up again.  And as levels went up we just got a bigger chest. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One oddity of the spell:  An item, once shrunk, won't re-expand if there's no room for it to do so.  That's so you can't use the expanding item to provide force for things like breaking down walls, etc.  But if you take said shrunken item and store it in a piece of iron pipe, it will never expand until you take it out.  The duration becomes effectively permanent, until you need the item.So in our case, we could carry all the mundane adventuring supplies we needed, stored in as many chests as we liked, and it only consumed a spell slot when we needed to put it away again.This is the budget form of Secret Chest, by the way!</blockquote>

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