Im a forever DM. We play DND for fun not inventory management, anything tedious like that just isn’t what I want to spend time in a game on.

My DM is kind and gave me “plot” arrows. It doesn’t hurt that I turn the bodies of my fallen enemies into ammo whenever I can

You can keep ChatGPT on in the background so that she/he can keep inventory for you guys. Like a mystical miserable fuck.

And if it hallucinates a few more inventory items who are we to complain?

No complaints at all. Who are we to question the spirits?

food and ammo are things i never keep track of, unless its magical foods or ammo.

Except in Call of Cthulhu, because i feel runming out of ammo in that game is more interesting than in DND.

I was doing this so thoroughly with one DM once, and - on account of my enthusiasm, I think - it took him two or three sessions before he told me he just doesn’t give a shit if I count them.

I like to use Usage Dice for this. Instead of tracking your arrows individually, you start with, say, a d12. At the end of a fight you roll it, on a 1 or a 2 the die downgrades a step to a d10, then a d8 etc. After d4 youre empty.

I wanna say I got this from the Black Hack?

Fwiw I run an old-school style game. 5e is more about power fantasy

Our rule was always that if you bought 50 of something like food or ammo, you don’t have to track how many you’ve used, we’ll just assume you’re well stocked and resupplying offscreen. The limit only comes back if the party is overtly cut off from resupply, like if they are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island.

This means you can easily have a limitless supply of normal arrows but still have to track your silver arrows, smoke bomb arrows, etc. Or you can invest the money to just have a limitless supply of whatever specialty item you think is worth the cost.

I just keep it on so there’s a recording of everything said that’s relevant for marketing purposes. I want the most personalized ads.

I like it! It neatly models the variability of arrows being recoverable and unbroken.

I just threw up a little

How about you keep ChatGPT in the trash where it belongs?

I can tell by the downvotes that there aren’t many fans of the AI on here and that’s fine. To each their own. I’m too old to be hating on new technology like if I was born in the 1100s.

Any kind of inventory management like arrows and food is way too sweaty and has never engaged a single player ever unless the whole point of the campaign is this exact mechanic. It’s a waste of time and energy and I don’t play with anyone that insists on doing it.

Yeah, it’s like encumberance in video games. Usually just makes things tedious and if there’s no work around it stops being fun.

Making fun of Luddites, as if they didn’t actually have a great fucking point, isn’t the cool flex you think it is.

I’ve literally typed the exact parameters of the product I want into chatgpt and it still didn’t give me what I was looking for. It can’t even do advertising right.

i like to borrow from other systems and treat quiver and gold as stats to be checked against. i can ask you to roll a stat check against quiver. if you fail, you are currently out of arrows and will need to perform some action to no longer be out of arrows (including long rest, just assuming part of long rest is fletching or whatever, it doesn’t need to be focused on too hard). on critical success or failure, the player’s stat can go up or down permanently, and a player can trade a wealth point for an inventory point in town.

generally it works really well at letting players focus on role play by not requiring them to maintain a running tally.