- If one puts it into the Camp Chest the Long Rest mechanic will try to consume it.
- If one gives it to non-active party members the Long Rest mechanic will try to consume it.
Long Rest mechanic ONLY takes from your ACTIVE parties inventory.
How do I know? Because I tried shoving all of my food into the camp chest and onto non-active party members to save weight on my active party members. Only to see that the Long Rest mechanic showed me having 0 food as a result.
In addition, every playthrough I shove the egg into camp chest/onto a non-active party member and lo and behold... It never appears in my Long Rest food usage options.
The player shouldn't have to fight against the game's core mechanic in order to successfully finish a quest
I dunno. I think it's an interesting mechanic to not simply label the thing as a non-interactive quest item.
It as an object, is worth 100g which is a decent amount early game. It also can provide a large amount of camp resources (Which can be useful early game). It's not necessary to complete the quest (You can give Lady Esther the actual Gith egg for example)
It provides a player ways to interact with the game beyond "Get quest item X for quest X" which is good design.
The only "issue" with it is that it is sometimes consumed by the auto-food usage options (Personally, the times where I don't bother to stash it out of reach of such things it has never been selected, but maybe that's because I loot every Supply Pack I see so I'm often swimming in tons of Camp Resources). But again, such things are easily worked around by the aforementioned, putting it out of your party...
