The most QOL inventory change would be being able to access everyone's inventory while in camp no matter if they are in my party or not

Having to constantly dismiss someone and get another character to join in order to move stuff back and forth is annoying as fuck

I ended up with 40,000+ gold

Please tell me you and the tollhouse woman got together and lived happily ever after.

I kept picking up useless shit because I thought I might be able to decorate my camp at some point and didn't want to waste paintings and vases ):

Us Starfield player: you guys get to manage your inventories?

Backpack Hero gets close to that in a rougelike/lite kind of way

It always reminds me of a beautiful quote that I’m going to butcher from one of the Factorio devs. If something isn’t fun, no matter how sacred it feels to your gameplay, get rid of it.

It’s hard to think of a game that has been improved by having inventory weight caps. For most games there should be two systems: resource hoarding, and item unlocks. You find an item, it’s now unlocked gratz. You find gold? Hoover it all up.

Really the only game I can think of where it really adds depth to the game is Darkest Dungeon 1. You have so many inventory slots, and you start out with them somewhat filled with food and assorted supplies to help you go. As you progress through a level, you naturally use up some supplies, but you still eventually have to choose whether to keep the bandages or the loot. But that was clearly a deeply thought out mechanic in the game, core to the experience, not “oh well skyrim has inventory management so we should too”.

Backpack Battles, basically.

It was a major component in playing Death Stranding optimally.

My party is suboptimal in weapons, armor, and magic items because it's too slow to pickpocket the non-selected party to see their inventory and the camp chest and compare it to everything else

BG3 like DOS2 doesn't have shared inventories because they want multiplayer situations to allow for stuffing around etc

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous really spoiled us with its carry weight when half your party got pets. The inventory in BG3 is bad, but the fact it's so easy to reach the carry limit only makes it worse.

I would much rather have an auto-loot mechanic, like hire an NPC to loot for you and only bring the stuff you care about. That way it still feels realistic, but you don't actually need to deal with loot all that much and you get most of the benefit. So you'll just grab the stuff you think is useful, then the rest gets sold eventually.

I've managed to talk most of my DMs into a graduated scale of bags of holding. The cheapest is only 100gp, but it only weighs 5 pounds, and only holds 25 or 30. Something like that. It's been years.

It made it so we all had an appropriate bag of holding by level 2, and we just upgraded as we ~~plundered and looted the countryside~~ "aided the poor villagers."

Which requires playing with a keyboard which some of us don’t.

I really do feel like Loki at the end of the series when I'm managing inventory sometimes

Would be nice if you didnt need em tho

Console players don't get mods bro

It’s not inventory Tetris at least or even an issue of a carrying capacity (because you can right-click and send items to camp at anytime)…it's issue is the massive amount of items you accumulate and the difficulty of properly organizing/grouping and finding them. Sorting by stats & abilities is next to impossible…so your characters most likely are not equipping the best suited gear…and the potions, ingredients, scrolls…

They are just in a list. You can sort and filter the list, and certain small items will get added to pouches, eg keys.

The only issue is that the game doesn't signal what is worth picking up and what is not. If you're an obsessive, you can pick up 20 things in every room. Most of then are only interactive so that you can throw them at people. If you want to pick up 500 candles from a castle and sell them at 0.5gp each, you can. If you mean to do so, fine. If you're just doing it because slamming "take all" from every corpse is quicker, well then you are causing your problem.

If you pick up the weapon of every enemy you've killed, you kind of deserve it. That isn't d&d. By the second act you have magical weapons and never need a common weapon or armour again.

If by inventory Tetris you mean something like RE4's attaché case system, then no there's no reorganizing like that - it's closer to the Witcher 3's system, with a big grid of square images for each item and a section to the left depicting the character and where equipment can be slotted in. It's all just a bit cumbersome - item images are small and sometimes fairly generic, sorting options are few, juggling which characters are holding what, characters' inventories that are back at camp can't be accessed unless you go back and switch them into your party (AFAIK), which involves telling one character to stay behind, confirming with them, going over to the new character, asking them to join, THEN accessing their inventory.