Carring Capacity for Tiger

[Particle_Man]

To help you out, I will try to put small saddlebags on my cat and see how much of a load he can tolerate. Ok, here's the cat, now just to get this on him (hold still) hmmm...ok, a little trouble here, lets try this again (ow! owowowowow! Roy Horn! Roy Horn!).

Sorry, my cat is not interested in helping you out.

 

[shilsen]

The cat won? Guess we know who's a Commoner1 then

 

[Lamoni]

If that makes someone a commoner 1, count me as one among them. I could easily kill a cat since it is no match for my kick and stomp, but in a grapple, the cat would definately be winning and my only thought would be to break the grapple so I could go back to using my kick.

 

[dvvega]

Thanks for the wildebeast correction. I don't know my animals too well except for the common animals that are always portrayed in writings.

I saw the information I relayed on a Discovery Channel like documentary regarding the big cats of the world. It may have been a gnu or something else.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

The posters above are right about the rules, but the rules are pretty silly.

The average tiger (STR 23) weighs around 500 lbs. According to the rules, 1 tiger could carry another tiger on his back + an extra 100 pounds and still only be lightly encumbered.

That is just an artifact of the granularity of the rules. We rate animals by size, but Large includes a rather wide range. Tigers happen to be light in weight as Large critters go. The rules are really designed for Medium humanoids.

If you want more physical accuracy, we would have a Size physical stat which rates humans on the familiar 3-18 range. Then rescale Str as a modifier to Size. A 500 lb. tiger would be about Size 21 and Str 12 -- bigger than all but the most bizarre examples of the Medium races and moderately athletic for its Size for an "Effective Strength" of 23.

There are other ways to do it. But you are not going to get better accuracy with system stat accretion or churning through charts. It might be worth cooking some houserules up if I intended to play a very exotic Savage Species campaign, but it is not worth it for most. Let Tigger be unencumbered and forget about it.