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<blockquote data-quote="Matthias" data-source="post: 6150296" data-attributes="member: 3625">Tying minimum strength to body weight &lt; max load is a nice idea, but some low-Str humanoids are going to fail that test even in normal gravity.Perhaps we can look at it this way: for purposes of variant gravity the value given for &quot;max load&quot; does not include one's own body weight. So for example a character with 13 Strength and 120 lb body weight might have a listed max load of 150 lb. but his &quot;true max load&quot; equals 150 + 120 = 270 lb, because his muscular system has had adapt to his body weight since infancy. Under lighter gravity (say 1/2 gravity), only 60 lb of the 270-lb limit has to be spent on body weight, leaving 190 lb to be used for equipment. On the chart this is equivalent to a max load of between 14 and 15 Strength, or a difference of -1 Strength modifier. Pretty good job, that. These values will of course vary from one individual to the next so it would be better to come up with a general rule to simplify matters.If your goal is to be ultrarealistic then by all means turn up the gravity. But make the environment hostile enough and the only purpose such a plane could serve in a campaign is to act as part of an instant-death trap or as a means to dispose of something that can't be destroyed or unmade otherwise (such as an artifact or a BBEG).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matthias, post: 6150296, member: 3625"] Tying minimum strength to body weight < max load is a nice idea, but some low-Str humanoids are going to fail that test even in normal gravity. Perhaps we can look at it this way: for purposes of variant gravity the value given for "max load" does not include one's own body weight. So for example a character with 13 Strength and 120 lb body weight might have a listed max load of 150 lb. but his "true max load" equals 150 + 120 = 270 lb, because his muscular system has had adapt to his body weight since infancy. Under lighter gravity (say 1/2 gravity), only 60 lb of the 270-lb limit has to be spent on body weight, leaving 190 lb to be used for equipment. On the chart this is equivalent to a max load of between 14 and 15 Strength, or a difference of -1 Strength modifier. Pretty good job, that. These values will of course vary from one individual to the next so it would be better to come up with a general rule to simplify matters. If your goal is to be ultrarealistic then by all means turn up the gravity. But make the environment hostile enough and the only purpose such a plane could serve in a campaign is to act as part of an instant-death trap or as a means to dispose of something that can't be destroyed or unmade otherwise (such as an artifact or a BBEG). [/QUOTE]

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