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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 4409781" data-attributes="member: 20805">This is an interesting idea... I like the concept of basically 'slotting' equipment.However, Chainmail in 35 weighs 40 lbs, full plate weighs 50 lbs. {1 or 2  Heavy depending on how you figure it}Throw in a sheild {5 lbs} and a long sword {4 lbs} and your 'Average' soldier is at Medium Encumbrance.The legionaires of Rome traveled with about 80 pounds of gear above and beyond their armor and weapons, and additional 4 'medium's.. meaning they had to have Str of 20!So, I like the concept.. just not sure on the limits.I haven't seen anything else like this, altho SuperDan had a thread using the old English weight of 'Stone' to redo the system in a much easier method. Basically you recalulate the weight of everything in Stone {about 14 pounds} To do tables, use the [CODE] tags, which keeps your spaces in-between letters.{edit} I couldn't find the original post and SuperDan took this one off his web page... but [url=http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2007/04/encumbrance.html]Delta's Blog[/url] has the same concept posted.The way I have it penciled in is that your encumbrance limit is equal to your Str plus your Str Mod.A Light load is under half that amount.A Medium load is up to 3/4 of that amount and causes a loss of 10' off your base move.A Heavy load is up to the full amount and causes a loss of 20' off your base move.An Extreme load is up to 1 1/4 the amount and causes a loss of 30' off your base moveThe total weight in Stones over your Base CON score counts as an armor check penalty.I can post SuperDans equipment list if you want to see it.[/CODE]</blockquote>

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