Do you buy/carry trinkets in-game?

[blargney the second]

Do they also collect the famous Longpottom leaf?
-blarg

 

[Odhanan]

he collects weapons???
thats not interesting. he should collect ears
Z

Hehe. Amalruth, my horned devil PC, collects demon/devil ears and offers the remains of his foes to Vatun. He also has a thing for skulls, when he doesn't decapitate his mortal victims to bite into their severed heads like apples.

 

[Lanefan]

Minor mundane equipment like that is essential. Mirror, telescope, rope - all come in handy during any worthwhile campaign. Pot-plate-utensils, soap, comb - hardly the stuff of heroism but you'd still never leave home without 'em...and they do affect your encumbrance if you're in a game where people are anal about such things. And the most useful thing (and most often forgotten): the simple canvas sack.

When playing, I always take a small pouch to hold fingers of dead-awaiting-resurrection party members. The challenge then becomes remembering to label them...

Lanefan

 

[The Thayan Menace]

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Do they also collect the famous Longpottom [sic.] leaf?

No, but they always try to find its Faerûnian equivalent.

-Samir

 

[Festivus]

I'm wondering if other people bother spending the coin/weight to give their characters other stuff.

Everyone's got the rope, or the grappling hook, or the torch. But does anyone buy the bell? Or the mirror? Or stuff like that?

My rogue carries a mirror and a whistle, both have come in handy. Use the mirror to look around a corner, use the whistle to alert your party when you are in danger.

 

[Dog Moon]

What about buying land, a house, creating a business, investing?

All the frikkin time! Don't know why, I'm just always into that. I've had numerous inns, tried starting a caravan once, guilds of different sorts, atm working on creating a Sensorium [the Sensate place like the Faction] within Cauldron in an abandoned nobles home I 'acquired' while also beginning my own little group within the Malachite Fortress after we took it over.

As for trinkets, I generally keep what we find, like miscelleneous gems, jewelry, and odd stuff. I rarely go out with the intention of buying anything weird.

 

[Umbran]

The bell, or the chunk of canvas, or the mirror, or the iron pot, or the whetstone. The stuff like that that doesn't directly lead to killing things and taking their stuff.

Doesn't lead to killing things? While it isn't in the core rules, what do you think happens to bladed whepons if you don't have a whetsone?

 

[domino]

They make their way into Rob Liefeld books?

 

[kirinke]

In a pinch, that iron pot can be a pretty useful weapon. I mean lookit lotr and Sam layin the smack down on orcs with his pots....

 

[genshou]

At higher levels, one or two of everything in the equipment chapter. What else is a giant bag of holding for?