This is heretical. Obviously, you have to save all your consumables for some hypothetical future encounter, as is tradition!
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do people do this in live dnd sessions too or is it just the video gamers?
Just the gamers. Real live tabletop players often forget about half of their inventory and rely on "what works" to get them out of trouble, when it doesn't, they do crazy shit like spill oil and then throw a candle at it to set the entire tavern on fire.
Thirty sessions later: "hey, I have five gallons of universal solvent on my character sheet for some reason? I think we stole it from that factory we melted? I want to fill the lich's scrying pool with it."
I am resourceful in live D&D as well, however I find it far easier to use consumables to save allies when they're played by my friends (applies to videogames too. However in videogames you can mostly reload.
Here here, I join you in this endless quest to conserve. Just like my great grandmother freezing half her gallons of milk, just in case the Great Depression were to return.
Sorry, why would you start your day drinking and invisibility potion when they only last for a minute?
... because they woke up and chose violence?
Well for one it's a 40oz invisibility potion, and for two I've got 18 more of em in the bag of holding, I can hold this buzz all day
Hmm..
You know, this take on how potions works tracks really well with the vanilla potion skins on Diablo 2.. I had never really considered that the potions don’t get -stronger-, you just consume a larger volume of them..
If you want to join my Baal farm run you need to have at least 50% MF and also be able to chug a bubba keg in six seconds flat
2 playthroughs and I've never used any of those except speak with animals - My avatar would be chugging 4 cans of 'Potion of Speed' though lol
Cloud giant strength is essential for a tavern brawl monk.