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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 368923" data-attributes="member: 1210">I really think that keeping track of who has what is extremely important.  As an example, if the rogue scouts ahead and finds himself ambushed by a mummy, and just happens to have the necklace of missiles the party just found (but nobody wrote it down or declared who had it) then he has just gotten a totally easy encounter compared to what it would have been like if he didn't have it.This can be (isn't always, but CAN BE) a real problem in some games, and as a dm I just don't tolerate it.  There have been two occasions that I can recall when the party has lost a cool magic item because nobody bothered to write it down.  I'm serious about this one, and I think that in a campaign that is going to have any versimilitude tracking this stuff is important.The hardest thing to enforce this on is rations.  That and small change (at least once you're above ~3rd level and there isn't much copper in your pocket anyway).  But for the small change, I've found that characters usually toss the barkeep a couple of gp for their food, drinks and rooms for the night and call the change a tip.Rations are tough; but with create food and drink, living off the land, etc. it isn't nearly as much of an issue. Ammo, charges on a wand, and especially spells and hp's (and psionic pps)- imo and imc- MUST be carefully tracked.</blockquote>