How do you handle misc junk?

Necomancer

In video games I generally am a pack rat and am curious of others habits in this regard. So, what do you do? Get rid of anything you don't need? Keep everything? Keep only certain things?

meagloth

I sell my rogue stones:)

CrevsDaak

Solo: sell ALL the stuff that can be sold, and if it can't be sold, I drop it.
Party: put ALL the quest-related/unique stuff in a Bag of Holding/Dragomir's IDKwhat.
In solo runs you get so much money that you can use merchants to 'hold' your items

Flashburn

I put all the quest items into my Bag of Hoarding until I'm finished with them.

booinyoureyes

I call it my Bag of Hoarding

SCARY_WIZARD

Except a problem with this is that my first Gorion's Ward had severe attachment issues and kept Gorion's dagger, as well as his note. And all of the bounty notices, because she was afraid people would find them.

jackjack

SCARY_WIZARD said:

And all of the bounty notices, because she was afraid people would find them.

In my current run, after CHARNAME dropped them, Montaron would pick them up. He had planned to off CHARNAME when the price came up to his liking. CHARNAME found out about it and murdered the little bugger.

Gallowglass

SCARY_WIZARD said:

Except a problem with this is that my first Gorion's Ward had severe attachment issues and kept Gorion's dagger, as well as his note. And all of the bounty notices, because she was afraid people would find them.

Why is that a "problem"? Of course you can't keep much in your backpack, but you can always store stuff in a container somewhere.

MacHurto

@jackjack isnt montaron smart enough to realise he will make more money with charname than against him? Guess not anymore :-)

elminster

By "toss" I mean sell (unless its a quest item I don't need anymore, in that case I toss it). But yea I generally don't hold onto things I don't need to.

Turin

In my current BG2EE run I've been storing all kinds of sellable items (+1 weapons and so on) in a closet in the Adventurer's Mart. At some point I want to sell them to buy the Robe of Vecna, but in the meantime I don't want to go over 10k gp so as not to trigger Valen's appearance (I plan to side with the vampires but I'm not done doing sidequests). Anyone else do stuff like that?

recklessheart

There are 2 Bags of Holding in the game.

Bag of Holding #1: Weapons, Armor & other Equippables that hold some kind of significance, antiquity or uniqueness even after they expend their usefulness eg. Peridan, The Equaliser, Staff of the Woodlands +4

Bag of Holding #2: All sorts of quest-related items. The Hand of Dace; a Lock of Jaheira's Hair; the Sahuagin Rebel's Orb: everybody's welcome.

There is adequate room on my 2 highest strength character's inventories for me to use them as necessary for carrying any of the loot junk that is worth selling. Generally, you have enough money by the time you acquire Bag of Holding #2 that you can be selective about what loot is worth carrying around to sell.

Wolk

I read "Minsc junk", tI was disapointed after reading the thread (or was I relieved)

I keep everything until I run out of place in BG1. Then I throw everything away. In BG2 I just keep all.

OneAngryMushroom

I'll pretty much keep any unique item that doesn't get totally outclassed by other stuff. Its also kinda roleplaying in a sense because I like my fantasy characters to be the type of character that can handle any situation. So I'll keep weapons for even the most slim advantage in a fight over a different one

deltago

Err, I am a pack rat and an organizational freak.
In BG1, I usually take over a house in beregost (the one that allows you to rest for free) and organize all my stuff in the containers there.
In BG2, I use my stronghold to organize my stuff.

I keep all plot items, any items with a special names, potions, wands, magical jewelry and scrolls and on occasion reading material in the containers provided.

If the thieves guild ever found my hideout, they'd make a killing.

Quartz

@CrevsDaak‌

CrevsDaak said:

Bag of Holding/Dragomir's IDKwhat.

That's the most honest thing I've read in a long time. "Dragomir's IDKwhat."

Gallowglass

recklessheart said:

There are 2 Bags of Holding in the game.

Actually there are 3.

1) Dragomir's IDKwhat, obtained by recruiting Hexxat.

2) The Bag of Holding you can find in Spellhold.

3) The Bag of Holding you can buy in Saradush from Lazarus Librarus.

1 and 2 are "Bags of Lesser Holding" which can hold 100 items each, but 3 is a "Bag of Greater Holding" which can hold 2000 items. However, 2 and 3 have the same name and image and description, so you have to discover for yourself that they're different! Except that now I've told you :-)

CrevsDaak

@Gallowglass‌ I think that is just a myth. The ones named Bag of Holding have a max of 100, and Dragomir's IDKwhat has a limit of 100 too.

Gallowglass

@CrevsDaak - No, I've tested it (by dumping piles of ammo into the Bags of Holding). The one purchased in Saradush is certainly very much bigger. Certainly it's a limit of 100 for the first two (but with 1 slot permanently taken by the fixed coffin in the case of Dragomir's IDKwhat), and so far as I recall it's 2000 for the third.

CrevsDaak

Gallowglass said:

@CrevsDaak - No, I've tested it (by dumping piles of ammo into the Bags of Holding). The one purchased in Saradush is certainly very much bigger. Certainly it's a limit of 100 for the first two (but with 1 slot permanently taken by the fixed coffin in the case of Dragomir's IDKwhat), and so far as I recall it's 2000 for the third.

Ammo does not stack the same way normal items do when inside a Bag of Holding.

recklessheart

@Gallowglass I generally don't abuse that use of the Casque, as it is literally a coffin, and I don't see how it realistically serves the function of a bag of holding unless Hexxat isn't going to ever die and need to get in there.

Also, I think Hexxat sucks and she and all of her stuff can stay out of my way or she will find herself in a situation reminiscent of the one where Salvanas tried to hit on an unenthusiastic Edwina.

Gallowglass

CrevsDaak said:

Ammo does not stack the same way normal items do when inside a Bag of Holding.

I'm not convinced by that either. So far as I can see when testing it, inside a Bag of Holding is the only time when ammo does seem to stack in the same way as everything else - identical items of any type (ammo or not) will all stack into unlimited piles inside a Bag, but each separate item in a stack (ammo or not) counts as one slot of the Bag's capacity.

Nevertheless, I've just laboriously tested the third Bag again, using everything I had to hand except ammo (which meant every other type of item - weapons, armour, potions, books, scrolls, you name it). I got to 1378 items in the Bag, and then ran out of non-ammo items in my stash. Then I added ammo until the Bag was full, and it took 622, coming to the same total as before.

So, I stick to what I originally said, and I regard this as now thoroughly proved by actual testing: the third Bag of Holding will take exactly 2000 items of any* type (and they all stack inside a Bag of Holding in the same way).

* Except other containers, and except for a couple of new items (such as the Iron Rod) which can't be placed inside a Bag of Holding at all (due to a coding oversight with newly-added item-classes).

Demonoid_Limewire

This! I couldn't just drop or sell, the wonderful flowers, our first fling ever gifted us with! (werewolf woman, tosc) Or the wonderful, bad luck charm of a statue, the doomsayer drops when killed! Rogue stone is a painful story, yet now i am NEVER going to forget carrying one or two around...

FinneousPJ

I thought it said "How do you handle Minsc's junk?" :O

Necomancer

FinneousPJ said:

I thought it said "How do you handle Minsc's junk?" :O

With full plate and packing steel

...I get that this doesn't make sense but I'm still saying it.

Gallowglass

recklessheart said:

@Gallowglass I generally don't abuse that use of the Casque, as it is literally a coffin, and I don't see how it realistically serves the function of a bag of holding unless Hexxat isn't going to ever die and need to get in there.

No, not the Casque of Dragomir, that's a different item. We're talking about Dragomir's Respite.

There's no abuse involved! Dragomir's Respite is a Bag of Holding with the first slot permanently filled by the Empty Casket, but you can put 99 other items into Dragomir's Respite alongside the coffin - spare armour, alternative weapons, assorted loot, whatever. When Hexxat needs to use it, she only uses the coffin in the first slot (and when she's regenerating inside it, it actually changes its name to Hexxat's Coffin, which is a nice touch). If you read (right-click the item) the in-game description of Dragomir's Respite (and of the Empty Casket), it tells you explicitly that this a (modified) Bag of Holding, so it's obviously the deliberate intention of the devs that you should know this. It's therefore not an "exploit" or "abuse" to use it as a Bag of Holding, it's an intended benefit.