2d In Torque Game Engine

I have another question for the Torque gurus out there. I am a huge fan of the Resident Evil series. The whole concept of puzzles and inventory management while in a life or death survival horror is such an immersing effect. It's so realistic, unlike some games where you can hold infinite items, you have to plan, you usually can't kill everything so you really have to think about your course of action to survive. Well rambling aside, I was wondering how you would implement a puzzle system or an inventory system? These would be best made in 2d, unless you are examining the item there is no need for 3d in the majority of inventory systems, even most little puzzles are best designed in 2d. Also things like interactive computer monitors are best in 2d, they have something like this in a game engine called C4, they call them panels. Also things like HUD's, those are best in 2d as well. What my question for you guys is this, how best would you create 2d content like what I spoke of in Torque Game Engine. Some theory I have is this, use dynamically generated textures and UV map them, however I know this idea is not a good one, since I can imagine the rendering time would be amplified. So then I thought about a 2d plotter engine or something, that brought me to my next discovery; why not use Torque Game Builder? I know with pro you can compile the code and import it into Torque Game Engine, so I could then maybe design the puzzle or inventory system with an interface (internally, in the code so I can modify the inventory) and just import and reference it in Torque Game Engine. I figure that since both use Torque Script it should be easy enough. So if you guys can give me any ideas on what you may have done or give me some advice on how this will or will not work and some alternatives I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
--Alex