Friday's game featured a moment where the PCs discovered "two magical items rolled on table B". Which was nice - always good to dig out those tables and see what you get. (No, seriously, I do quite like that approach to treasure in 5e.)
One of the two items was yet another potion, which is fine, but the other was a bag of holding.
Which is a pain on two counts: Firstly, I had been about to bring in an encumbrance rule for the rest of the campaign, notably including tracking of rations. But the BoH makes that utterly pointless - the party can now just carry whatever they need anyway, so tracking rations becomes just some pointless book-keeping.
Secondly, in the absence of an encumbrance system, the BoH is itself completely pointless - it solves a problem that the party doesn't actually face. Huzzah!
The upshot of this is that I'm now not going to bother introducing the encumbrance system, and therefore not bother with the tracking of rations. Which is slightly unfortunate, but so be it. It's probably better used in the next campaign anyway.
Ah, but the timing, though...
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