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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ganymede81" data-source="post: 7286284" data-attributes="member: 6812267">Here's a way to do it...Ok, let's assume that the cart, a vehicle designed to haul cargo, is a good baseline for deriving our capacity coefficient. A cart is designed to be pulled by one draft animal, so we can assume that it is also designed to handle the full carrying capacity of that animal. If we also assume that a vehicle's weight relates to its structural integrity (a heavier vehicle is more heavily reinforced), we can divide its remaining carrying capacity by its weight to get our coefficient: 2,500 / 200 = 12.5 pounds.This means that every pound of vehicle weight can accommodate 12.5 pounds of cargo. Larding up a vehicle with weight beyond this ratio would risk structural failure (I'll leave those rules up to you).(As an aside, I assume a PC would use a sled in lieu of a cart for arctic travel over snow. I mean, even if we ignore carrying capacity, why would most adventurers ever choose a sled over a cart anyways?)</blockquote>