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<blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 7889682" data-attributes="member: 67296">As a player, I played with a slot system beforeAs a DM, I went through a few variations of the item/burden system [USER=40233]@Salamandyr[/USER] and I mentioned.Both worked really well but to be honest, we've been hand-waving encumbrance recently (both as a player and DM). Neither really frequently forced players to make &quot;hard choices&quot; with their equipment, but it did gave us an idea of what the character could carry at character creation, then played within those parametres. The 8 Str character couldn't carry much, so from the start we knew that that character would never be carrying anything but its own stuff. It became obvious a pack mule (or bear in our case) was necessary in the long run, so basically we had a &quot;with pack mule&quot; and a &quot;without pack mule&quot; scenario.This is probably not what you came here to hear but the intermediary between stupidly simple and stupidly complicated isn't worth it IMO. If you don't want to track equipment precisely (and I wouldn't take it against you), then track it really rough. At least this is my (admittedly anecdotal) experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laurefindel, post: 7889682, member: 67296"] As a player, I played with a slot system before As a DM, I went through a few variations of the item/burden system [USER=40233]@Salamandyr[/USER] and I mentioned. Both worked really well but to be honest, we've been hand-waving encumbrance recently (both as a player and DM). Neither really frequently forced players to make "hard choices" with their equipment, but it did gave us an idea of what the character could carry at character creation, then played within those parametres. The 8 Str character couldn't carry much, so from the start we knew that that character would never be carrying anything but its own stuff. It became obvious a pack mule (or bear in our case) was necessary in the long run, so basically we had a "with pack mule" and a "without pack mule" scenario. This is probably not what you came here to hear but the intermediary between stupidly simple and stupidly complicated isn't worth it IMO. If you don't want to track equipment precisely (and I wouldn't take it against you), then track it really rough. At least this is my (admittedly anecdotal) experience. [/QUOTE]

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