I use a lot of herb bundles, playing a Heal PC.
I also have a lot of random crap in my inventory, because he's a herbalist.
I noticed that when something gives your PC an item (Bundle unpacking, Potions granted on reset etc )it chooses another thing to drop.
I don't know if this is hardcoded to NWN or a scripted thing?
If the latter, could this be changed so that the item dropped is always one of the unpacked items, or that it just drops whatever it was trying to give to you?
I've lost some good loot items this way, when I unpacked a large bundle of herbs and it filled up all my inventory space and then some. I've also lost gear on reset if I didn't have enough space in the inventory for my new Dissipating Potions.
Hold on, so you are saying that if you open a bundle of herbs, and your inventory is full, it pushes out whatever item - a random item - not the herbs?
Because that sounds weird. It's creating item on you, if there is no room, it is one that generally falls on ground. That's basic nwn functionality usually? Having said that, I don't do a lot of full inventory and drop items, nearly ever, so I don't have a lot of testing under the belt on that one, but please confirm what exactly is going on and be sure that is the case.
I think it's an EE issue that instead of dropping the items you're picking up, it drops your inventory items instead
Either way, that is just something we cannot help with much. Report to Beamdog, and outside that, don't open things with your inventory so full.