After ~450 hours in the game, I realized something that I’d been wanting was in the game the whole time, just not explicitly: a way to put your items into “folders”.
I often wondered what the purpose was of placing empty backpacks and pouches throughout the game and making them show up in the alt-view. I figured they had items in them at different difficulties or previous versions, or they were simply there for aesthetics (I think most likely option). It only just occurred to me that I could pick them up and store items in them to sort out my stupid long inventory lists.
Gale has a backpack with all his little scrolls. Lae’zel has a backpack that somehow holds 20 daggers, 12 javelins and a spear. And astarion has a pouch with with enough magical arrows to make the Fat Man look like a firecracker. Now the stuff I actually plan on using is much easier to find.
I pick up every tiny pouch I see because they don’t take up space and they force me to not bring the entire kitchen sink with me everywhere. to make space for important drops or other things.
You can do like one for pots, one for explosives and arrows, etc.
I also take it a step further and use a goody bag system when it comes to gear for members I’m not using right now, but I will later. I store all their upgraded gear in a pouch along with anything else I think they might need.
If I’m taking someone out and it’s been a while, I have them go grab their little goody bag 😊 then they got everything all neat and organized and ready to go.
it saves me going “wait… were these for Gale? or Wyll. I can’t remember…” pain in the ass. Just make a little goody bag for them. Then you can organize now and save future you a headache!
Oh, that’s brilliant. Why am I not doing that. I should probably start doing that. Really, I probably need to make myself a “souvenirs” pouch, too, for all the things that hold some sentimental importance.
I’ve just been picking carefully around everything every time I grab stuff to sell, and now I feel like a caveman whose friend has just demonstrated Hit Thing With Rock
I have a gilded chest in my camp supplies specifically for souvenirs. I also use chests for organization in the same camp chest. One for each weapon/armor type that I’m holding onto in case I decide to respec someone later and I need a different aspect on their armor.
That’s actually brilliant, I feel so behind everyone else with their nested pouches and item-forwarding systems.
it’s really just to save me the hassle of having to remember the next day. like “… wait who was this for?” and having to try and figure out who I’d decided to give it to the night before.
grab all the pouches! I probably have tons in my camp chest right now just waiting to be used. lol
small pouches are also a handy way of packing explosives into one small concentrated area 😉