Party loot distribution: How do you do it?

[Tunrik]

My group of friends and I have tried to start a campaign many of times but always fell apart due to people taking all the items.On out 8th attempt tho I think we finally got it locked down.

The problem start with that one friend (we all have) that enjoys taking all the loot, causing others to be paranoid and start grabbing too, no matter if it is for their class or not.

the way we have got around this is everyone at the beginning chooses a armour class ( heavy, medium and ect) and a weapon. If we come across said item for them they basically get it no matter what. other items tho like the witch skin and white worm we use a wheel spinner and is randomly given to the winner.

Essentially I think we are using WOW's need and want mechanic and it is working pretty well. I've been wondering how do you guys do it? do you have a better idea or is this the best you've heard!

[skOsH♥]

My process doesn't make sense, but I do it in all mmorpgs.

My main holds all the gold. If Astarion can pickpocket gold, it goes right back to my main lol

Then for armor I have a heavy, a medium, and light armor should I need to buff members in my party

[Mander]

Clear division of responsibilities and agency.
For example, in my current campaign with friends, I’m playing a githyanki sorcerer, a friend is playing a dragonborn barbarian and the third is a halfling bard.
The bard manages all the gold, with the implicit trust of all the party (motivated in game by the fact that the barbarian and the gith are not used to the coins of faerun). Everything we don’t sell for coins, is split among our characters for area of interests: alchemical ingredients and potions are under my gith purview, while the barbarian has right of dibs on powder kegs, weapons and armour (bar anything we need for our builds).

In the end, one party member can hog all the loot, but to what purpose? The backpacks are not private, so everyone knows at all moment, what the others have…

[Angel]

I put one person in charge of all the loot, you can see in their bag what they have anyway and just hand out items to those who need them the most

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Tunrik:

Party loot distribution: How do you do it?
My group of friends and I have tried to start a campaign many of times but always fell apart due to people taking all the items.On out 8th attempt tho I think we finally got it locked down.

The problem start with that one friend (we all have) that enjoys taking all the loot, causing others to be paranoid and start grabbing too, no matter if it is for their class or not.

the way we have got around this is everyone at the beginning chooses a armour class ( heavy, medium and ect) and a weapon. If we come across said item for them they basically get it no matter what. other items tho like the witch skin and white worm we use a wheel spinner and is randomly given to the winner.

Essentially I think we are using WOW's need and want mechanic and it is working pretty well. I've been wondering how do you guys do it? do you have a better idea or is this the best you've heard!

You need different friends.
What you experience is happening only when the party members have not the best interest of the party in mind.

Until then you can use a patchwork solution in having a community chest for everyone. Loot gets stored there, and one to manages that. That includes old and new loot. Before distributing new loot everyone has to make a claim for it, and then by majority vote who convinced the others 2:1 best, it gets distributed.

But then again: if you are playing with friends you should not have such issues to begin with.

[guard65]

I only play multiplayer with my friends and we use the rule of use. If your ability to use and item out weighs someone else's it is yours.

It usually works for us since there is almost no good loot in game and we usually know ahead of time who it advantages the most.

[Brian_the_Brute]

The easiest way to deal with that is the selfish person gets expelled or killed off and robbed by the rest of the party if they can't cooperate. They can only continue being greedy if everyone else allows it.

[Tunrik]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Tunrik:

Party loot distribution: How do you do it?
My group of friends and I have tried to start a campaign many of times but always fell apart due to people taking all the items.On out 8th attempt tho I think we finally got it locked down.

The problem start with that one friend (we all have) that enjoys taking all the loot, causing others to be paranoid and start grabbing too, no matter if it is for their class or not.

the way we have got around this is everyone at the beginning chooses a armour class ( heavy, medium and ect) and a weapon. If we come across said item for them they basically get it no matter what. other items tho like the witch skin and white worm we use a wheel spinner and is randomly given to the winner.

Essentially I think we are using WOW's need and want mechanic and it is working pretty well. I've been wondering how do you guys do it? do you have a better idea or is this the best you've heard!

You need different friends.
What you experience is happening only when the party members have not the best interest of the party in mind.

Until then you can use a patchwork solution in having a community chest for everyone. Loot gets stored there, and one to manages that. That includes old and new loot. Before distributing new loot everyone has to make a claim for it, and then by majority vote who convinced the others 2:1 best, it gets distributed.

But then again: if you are playing with friends you should not have such issues to begin with.

lmao one guy gave some of us "loot ptsd" and we would all start taking stuff so we could at least have something. Got so bad I had to sit us down and talk about it

[Tunrik]

Originally posted by guard65:

I only play multiplayer with my friends and we use the rule of use. If your ability to use and item out weighs someone else's it is yours.

It usually works for us since there is almost no good loot in game and we usually know ahead of time who it advantages the most.

I'm intrested then how did you pick who gets the witch skin then? being that everyone has a skill at 17, that one to it making it 18 is huge and is equally good to everyone.

[LordNibbler]

Honor the age old Githyanki traditions and have some fights to the death. Winner can choose!

[ahsanford]

RP ...with adults, maybe?

Discuss, negotiate and generally don't be a d--- and I've never had a sharing problem.

- A