D&D Week: Where is my Inventory?
It was during an intense miniboss battle that half of my party came close to dying.
As the cleric in the party, I had spent a great deal of time collecting useful magical items to protect and serve the party. I enjoyed fighting the battle of life and death and working my hardest to push the other players as far as they could in combat by bolstering them and smothering the enemy. I had a thistle that my character had collected from early on in the game, which was imbued with an enchantment allowing the user to cast bane on up to 5 creatures instead of 3 for one use only. I had held onto the item for almost 10 sessions at this point and had basically tossed it to the bottom of my character’s bag to be forgotten and ignored.
In and out we came from fights before finally coming up to the spellcaster at our latest village stop. By level 11 I had so many items in my bags it was an ache to scour through all my belongings to find the tiny scribble of ‘bane thistle’ that I could have used in the fight to deter some of those hits. Frustratingly, I didn’t have my own character sheet design at that point so I was still using the standard and really struggled. Even now as a GM I struggle with monitoring inventory, or the idea that the players aren’t just carrying a bag of holding on their shoulders at ALL TIMES in the adventure.
Something needed to be done to help ease up this visualisation frustration I was having. So today I have one.
I’ve made a free printable for you all in the shape of an ‘inventory tracker’. You can put the items in your inventory into all the individual areas they belong on this sheet. Keep track of the items you’re attuned to, and even make a note in advance of any items you may have hidden away on you, or put into storage.
I’ve already worked on putting my latest character’s gear in there and it has just made the page an awful lot tidier and organised for me.
Phew!
You can get your own on the store for FREE now. Let me know if it has been just as much use to you too!
Are you sick of not knowing where your items are? The Inventory list on your character sheet filled with an array of items looking horrendously cluttered? Let’s give you the equivalent of a tidy and organised bedroom with our Inventory sheet. Keep track of items hidden, in storage, on your person and attuned. Printable at home for Free.
