D&D 5E (2014) Aarakroca Carrying Capacity

[Nebulous]

We play tonight and I'm going to bring up weight limitations and such. They all have a lot of gear, and realistically they probably can't carry it all anyway, and they don't have a bag of holding. Hell, the shield guardian has a 200 lb canoe strapped to his back, lol

 

[Vardellic]

How would this change with lower strength and a fly spell.

Character has STR of 8 and casts fly on himself. Wants to rope a stocky dwarf and all gear on to him like a backpack and travel 500 ft up to a flying island.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Unless he's carrying everyone, I don't see a problem.

Actually, I don't see a problem then either.

 

[Stormonu]

Personally, I tend to fall back on older edition rules mixed with current edition...

Less than 5 x Strength score = Unencumbered, no effect on movement. This would be less than 40 lbs. for the STR 8 character
5 x Strength score = encumbered, movement is reduced by 10 ft. (as per normal rules). This would 40 - 79 lbs. for the STR 8 character
10 x Strength score = heavily encumbered, movement is reduced by 20 ft. and disadvantage on ability checks, attacks and saving throws. This would be 80 - 119 lbs. for the STR 8 character. Personally, at this level I'd only let the character glide and not ascend
15 x Strength score = max load, movement is 5 ft., and disadvantage on ability checks, attacks and saving throws. This would be 120 - 320 lbs. for the STR 8 character; Personally, I'd rule this as slowed descent only (30 ft./round minimum).
30 x Strength score = max lift. For STR 8, this is 320 lbs.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Question: would you prevent a really strong dude from simply throwing allies they can easily lift from place to place?

Laterally with an arc no taller than ten feet so you can't screw them with fall damage.

 

[AmerginLiath]

The lack of coconut jokes in this thread disappoints me.

 

[Charlaquin]

Aarakocra can’t fly while wearing medium or heavy armor, so if using the variant encumbrance rules, I would extend this to also include lightly or heavily encumbered. If not using the variant encumbrance rules, I‘d probably just say that carrying another person weighs you down too much to fly.

 

[Charlaquin]

Question: would you prevent a really strong dude from simply throwing allies they can easily lift from place to place?

Laterally with an arc no taller than ten feet so you can't screw them with fall damage.

People are very hard to throw. Their shape probably has at least as much to do with that as their weight. Basically, I would probably allow it, but not very far.

 

[Charlaquin]

Personally, I tend to fall back on older edition rules mixed with current edition...

Less than 5 x Strength score = Unencumbered, no effect on movement. This would be less than 40 lbs. for the STR 8 character
5 x Strength score = encumbered, movement is reduced by 10 ft. (as per normal rules). This would 40 - 79 lbs. for the STR 8 character
10 x Strength score = heavily encumbered, movement is reduced by 20 ft. and disadvantage on ability checks, attacks and saving throws. This would be 80 - 119 lbs. for the STR 8 character. Personally, at this level I'd only let the character glide and not ascend
15 x Strength score = max load, movement is 5 ft., and disadvantage on ability checks, attacks and saving throws. This would be 120 - 320 lbs. for the STR 8 character; Personally, I'd rule this as slowed descent only (30 ft./round minimum).
30 x Strength score = max lift. For STR 8, this is 320 lbs.

Don’t even need to go back to older editions for that, that’s pretty much exactly the 5e variant encumbrance rule.

 

[Stormonu]

The lack of coconut jokes in this thread disappoints me.

Give it a chance, it's still dusting itself off after a long nap.

By the way, what is your favorite color?