Hot Bars and spell/ability/scroll management. - 14/10/20 09:46 AM
Some classes in DnD get access to a LOT of spells. Especially classes like Wizards who can prepare many spells, and also cast spells at different levels.
Even with my hot bar fully extended, my Cleric is already filling the bars up, if I want to have access to all my spells. If I want to access some potions and scrolls too, it gets crowded.
One of the first things I did with my caster was to press the little "tab" that shows my spell slots, assuming it would open up a list of all my spells for that level. Or change my hot bar to that level.
I noticed that for "Throw" and "Dip" this is handled as a pop up menu.
My suggestion is to make spells also part of pop up menus. That way my hot bar can be "the things I use all the time" and the pop up could be all the spells I have access too.
Similarly I think Scrolls, Potions, arrows and Class Actions also could have their own pop up menus. I think I would use these things more if I remembered I had them, but I tend not to put them on my Hot Bar, so they just gather dust in my inventory.
Having the "multiple hot bar" System is okay, but it demands a lot of management. Especially for items, during multi player we'd often grab items from a players inventory, which would remove it from their hot bar.
Even with my hot bar fully extended, my Cleric is already filling the bars up, if I want to have access to all my spells. If I want to access some potions and scrolls too, it gets crowded.
One of the first things I did with my caster was to press the little "tab" that shows my spell slots, assuming it would open up a list of all my spells for that level. Or change my hot bar to that level.
I noticed that for "Throw" and "Dip" this is handled as a pop up menu.
My suggestion is to make spells also part of pop up menus. That way my hot bar can be "the things I use all the time" and the pop up could be all the spells I have access too.
Similarly I think Scrolls, Potions, arrows and Class Actions also could have their own pop up menus. I think I would use these things more if I remembered I had them, but I tend not to put them on my Hot Bar, so they just gather dust in my inventory.
Having the "multiple hot bar" System is okay, but it demands a lot of management. Especially for items, during multi player we'd often grab items from a players inventory, which would remove it from their hot bar.