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I made a stupid remark: even if spells inside books do count, I have never had anything like 255 items carried by one person or one mule. You people know your stuff, but 255 items max for the whole party sounds like such an extraordinarily bad decision for the game developers to have made that I'm curious as to what counts and what does not count against that limit.

Example: I arrived at Verma's in the swamp with 6 people and 2 mules having 247 items between them, plus 69 spells inside spellbooks (over half the spells in extra books I'd bought just to store unwanted spells in until I could sell them).

247 items made up of
- 62 in use (equipped) including amulets, rings and spellbooks
- 51 potions being carried
- 134 not-in-use larger items being carried (including those extra spellbooks)
There were 106 units of empty carrying capacity (out of 624) so if the party hadn't gone back to the travellers' shopkeepers after clearing out the bandit camps and strongholds then they'd have been carrying more stuff.

This may seem a silly question, but suppose that on arriving in front of Castle Ehb, I disband a mule to make room for Lord Bolingar, and don't bother to unload it first - do the items left on ex-members still count against the party limit? Do the items, that Bolingar and other potential party members come with, count against the party limit even if the characters aren't recruited?