New Posts For Thread: overlooting players?http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29038279/overlooting_playersGot a question.Are my players overlooting?Whenever they finish an encounter they immediatly start to loot every and I mean every monster in the room.And the always take every scrap of equipment and items the monsters have.Hell, during kobold hall theI add more saves and RP elements in if the group starts picking up everything, just making certain rolls harder. Not to an extent that it goes beyond nerfing the character, but stealth rolls are harder due to jingling sacks, athletic checks etc. If ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29038279/overlooting_players?post_id=518695037#518695037I add more saves and RP elements in if the group starts picking up everything, just making certain rolls harder. Not to an extent that it goes beyond nerfing the character, but stealth rolls are harder due to jingling sacks, athletic checks etc. If aMon, 16 Apr 2012 19:43:18 -0500Each of my party members carry a bag of holding (knapsack size) as they like to loot everything (200lbs max weight). Yesterday they searched the remains of two earth elementals .Another found out the lore on Kruthiks and insisted the party burrow alhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29038279/overlooting_players?post_id=518446027#518446027Each of my party members carry a bag of holding (knapsack size) as they like to loot everything (200lbs max weight). Yesterday they searched the remains of two earth elementals .Another found out the lore on Kruthiks and insisted the party burrow alTue, 10 Apr 2012 05:25:47 -0500My DM doesn't base carrying capacity on weight; he bases it off what you can realistically carry (barring BoH-type items).Your carrying capacity might say you can carry 30 swords, but imagine trying to carry that in real life... not gonna happen. Abohttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29038279/overlooting_players?post_id=518443381#518443381My DM doesn't base carrying capacity on weight; he bases it off what you can realistically carry (barring BoH-type items).Your carrying capacity might say you can carry 30 swords, but imagine trying to carry that in real life... not gonna happen. AboTue, 10 Apr 2012 00:26:12 -0500Agree totally with this. Of course they can move from one sort of mentality to the other as they advance in lvl, and to a certain extent this will happen naturally. But whether lvl1 means "ordinary joe" or "lvl1 Hero; capital H" is totally up to thhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29038279/overlooting_players?post_id=518224873#518224873Agree totally with this. Of course they can move from one sort of mentality to the other as they advance in lvl, and to a certain extent this will happen naturally. But whether lvl1 means "ordinary joe" or "lvl1 Hero; capital H" is totally up to thTue, 03 Apr 2012 12:06:14 -0500Don't view them wanting to do this as a burden on you, and like other people have said - the idea behind saying "yes... and" is to encourage creativity, and it does tend to create unusual and interesting situations very often...For instance, I had onhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29038279/overlooting_players?post_id=518220793#518220793Don't view them wanting to do this as a burden on you, and like other people have said - the idea behind saying "yes... and" is to encourage creativity, and it does tend to create unusual and interesting situations very often...For instance, I had onTue, 03 Apr 2012 10:08:22 -0500