Adventure & RPG Games · 8

Inventory limits are not only realism; they create decisions by forcing players to decide which possible future problems deserve space right now. The design side has its own twist. Save points used to be partly a technical constraint, but designers learned to use them as atmosphere: a safe place feels safer when the game visibly lets you stop there. The most dangerous RPG sentence is 'I'll sell this; I probably won't need it later.'