[Inkscape-user] Drawing a path with Mass

I really like the effect of "Mass" on the Caligraphy tool, and I'd love to see the feature on Pencil tool also.

Until then (hint) does anyone have any clever tricks to help me freehand draw a smooth path?

The best I've thought of (and it's not very good) is to use the Caligraphy tool freehand draw a closed shape, tediously place objects to fill it, then "union" them to create one solid shape that I can apply a stroke to.

I really don't think you can use the pencil tool practically with a tablet. It's usable when combined with simplify but even then the results are unpredictable and can require a lot of manual manipulation.