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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5367525" data-attributes="member: 22424">I think a lot of the issue here is that D&D characters tend to accumulate gear, very rarely ever lose/sell/give away any of it, and tend to carry everything they own at all times. After all, they never know when they might be called on to engage in life-or-death combat, delve a random dungeon, or otherwise engage in extreme activity.A more realistic approach would be for characters to regularly throw away and/or replace their mundane gear (due to it being lost, wearing out, or just being old), and to re-equip themselves on a per-expedition basis.(One potential way of modelling this would be to use a much more punishing set of encumberance rules, coupled with allowing the party to 'buy' mundane equipment at zero cost. So, they can acquire rope, iron spikes, rations, lanterns, oil, and so on easily enough... but they can only carry a tiny number of items at a time, so they really have to choose.That might actually make "dungeon hack" adventures more interesting, since the party have to make hard choices about what to take in to the dungeon, and then make do with whatever they've got - rather than just having the fighter carry an absurd amount of gear and/or handwaving equipment availability.)</blockquote>