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<blockquote data-quote="Noah Ivaldi" data-source="post: 6656587" data-attributes="member: 6797143"><p>Most of what you said: Excellent!</p><p></p><p>Carrying Capacity stuff: Oh, hah, right, there's a box for that. That does help with custom races and situations quite a bit.</p><p>With the goliaths, though, that's kinda' the problem, in a weird way. Because it automatically doubles without checking the box, it inconveniently shows the wrong numbers for my DM's house rule. Yeah, no, I know better than to ask you to make your sheet conform to every house rule that comes along, but I'm thinking of a way to easily handle this compatibility while also expanding for other oddities.</p><p>At first, I was thinking, "How about we make it so that goliath just makes the x2 box auto-check, rather than doubling it without a way to reverse it?" That means that there's no way to show higher capacity when under some Ant Haul (which would be a custom spell in 5E, but that's aside the point) effect. I'm glad that size changes fix the capacity automatically. Then, it hit me:</p><p>How about we replace the x2 box with a "Multiplier" box that people can fill in at will? If you have Powerful Build, plug in a 2, unless your DM house ruled around it like mine did. The DM threw you a curveball and had the evil sorcerer invent some spell that gives you a level of exhaustion and temporarily halves your carrying capacity? Write in a 0.5. Your party druid researched an Ant Haul spell and shared it with the wizard so that they can take turns making you a better pack mule? Put in a 3, or whatever your DM decided it should be in this version. You got polymorphed into a quadruped and the DM decided that quadrupeds should have their carrying capacities doubled? Put a 2 in there. Get Ant Haul-ed up while in this form? Bam, 6! Size modifications can still auto-calculate, or we could manually double for that, too. This ranting has a point: If we change a simple checkbox to a coefficient box that people can modify like the blue boxes and stop having Powerful Build auto-calculate, we cover a <em>lot</em> of variations with a very simple change. You like?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noah Ivaldi, post: 6656587, member: 6797143"] Most of what you said: Excellent! Carrying Capacity stuff: Oh, hah, right, there's a box for that. That does help with custom races and situations quite a bit. With the goliaths, though, that's kinda' the problem, in a weird way. Because it automatically doubles without checking the box, it inconveniently shows the wrong numbers for my DM's house rule. Yeah, no, I know better than to ask you to make your sheet conform to every house rule that comes along, but I'm thinking of a way to easily handle this compatibility while also expanding for other oddities. At first, I was thinking, "How about we make it so that goliath just makes the x2 box auto-check, rather than doubling it without a way to reverse it?" That means that there's no way to show higher capacity when under some Ant Haul (which would be a custom spell in 5E, but that's aside the point) effect. I'm glad that size changes fix the capacity automatically. Then, it hit me: How about we replace the x2 box with a "Multiplier" box that people can fill in at will? If you have Powerful Build, plug in a 2, unless your DM house ruled around it like mine did. The DM threw you a curveball and had the evil sorcerer invent some spell that gives you a level of exhaustion and temporarily halves your carrying capacity? Write in a 0.5. Your party druid researched an Ant Haul spell and shared it with the wizard so that they can take turns making you a better pack mule? Put in a 3, or whatever your DM decided it should be in this version. You got polymorphed into a quadruped and the DM decided that quadrupeds should have their carrying capacities doubled? Put a 2 in there. Get Ant Haul-ed up while in this form? Bam, 6! Size modifications can still auto-calculate, or we could manually double for that, too. This ranting has a point: If we change a simple checkbox to a coefficient box that people can modify like the blue boxes and stop having Powerful Build auto-calculate, we cover a [i]lot[/i] of variations with a very simple change. You like? [/QUOTE]
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