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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2738384" data-attributes="member: 3146">Where do you get that 50-100lb figure? Everything I've read places D&D era armors in the 20-50lb range--much like D&D places  them....In any event, however, with D&D book weights, a decent sized man wearing fullplate and carrying a sword or lance is going to be a medium load for a light horse (str 14, med load 174-348lb) and, if he's got a fiar strength score, he's probably a medium load for a light warhorse or heavy horse as well (str 16: med load 228lb-459lb). A heavy warhorse (str 18: 300-600lb med load) can probably carry an armored man in fullplate at a light load, but if you put barding on him, he'll be at medium load as well.Remember that medium load incurs a -3 penalty to ability and skill checks and a reduction in speed; heavy load is a -6 penalty to checks, max dex of +1 and reduces the run speed one category as well.Of course, horses will be able to carry more if your mounted warriors are 110lb girls with an 18 strength and barbie figure, but with realistic weights for human PCs (what is a realistic weight for an elf or dwarf is a rather curious question <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, you'll find that, a saddle, clothes, a weapon and armor, even light PCs will have trouble keeping an ordinary riding horse at a light load.Weight does make a difference.</blockquote>

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