carrying loads and character speed

[RaveN]

from table 9-2 (ph 3.0 p142)

carrying loads
load ...... speed
.............. (30 ft.) ........... (20 ft.)
medium .. 20 ft. ............. 15 ft.
heavy ..... 20 ft. ............. 15 ft.

the question becomes what if a character's base speed is not 30 ft or 20 ft. surely there are monsters who have a base speed faster or slower... are there not? what would say a character with a base speed of 40 ft. move at if he was medium encumbered? what formula would be used to determine this?

tia.

 

[root]

From 3.5:

Base: Reduced:
20.........15
30.........20
40.........30
50.........35
60.........40
70.........50
80.........55
90.........60
100.......70


All values are represented in feet. Based on this chart, it looks like they only calculated out to light and medium encumberence. Since a base speed of 30 is reduced to 15 for a heavy load, then I would say that for any other value up there, that a heavy loaded character or npc have 1/2(BASE_SPEED). That seems entirely fair and plausible to me.

Anyone else have thoughts on that?


**Edited to make bad looking chart look better.**

 

[NilCat]

Since a base speed of 30 is reduced to 15 for a heavy load, then I would say that for any other value up there, that a heavy loaded character or npc have 1/2(BASE_SPEED).

Or you could just reduce the speed twice (30 reduces to 20 which in turn reduces to 15) - This will in most cases be equal to half of base, but sometimes slower (base 90 is one such case) - The only problem are the reductions to 35 and 55 which needs to be adjusted somehow

 

[RaveN]

From 3.5:

Base: Reduced:
20.........15
30.........20
40.........30
50.........35
60.........40
70.........50
80.........55
90.........60
100.......70


All values are represented in feet. Based on this chart, it looks like they only calculated out to light and medium encumberence...

while i don't have the 3.5 books i do have the 3.0 books and 3.0 uses the same penalties for being medium or heavy encumbered in terms of speed. is the chart there perhaps the values for both medium and heavy? (personally i'd have to believe it is)

(delta)
5
10
10
15
20
20
25
30
30

looks like a pattern now.

 

[nsruf]

All values are represented in feet. Based on this chart, it looks like they only calculated out to light and medium encumberence. Since a base speed of 30 is reduced to 15 for a heavy load, ...

That's not true. A heavy load does not reduce your base speed further, it just changes your run multiplier from x4 to x3. So a human would have

light load: speed 30, run 120
medium load: speed 20, run 80
heavy load: speed 20, run 60

 

[RaveN]

here's what i came up with in case anyone is curious.

[COLOR=sandybrown]
if (event.value >= 20) {
  var os = (this.getField("Original Speed")).value;
  var temp = (os / 10) + 1;
    
  if (temp % 3 == 0)
    total = os - ((temp / 3 * 10) - 5); //handle every third number starting with 20 (20,50,80,etc.)
  else
    total = os - (Math.floor(temp / 3) * 10);   
}
else
  total = 0;
[/COLOR]

 

[Conaill]

Reduced speed is 2/3 of Base speed, rounded up to nearest multiple of 5:

Base    2/3    Rounded
20......13.3....15
30......20......20
40......26.6....30
50......33.3....35
60......40......40
70......46.7....50
80......53.3....55
90......60......60
100.....66.7....70