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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feaelin" data-source="post: 143291" data-attributes="member: 1614">Actually, that's not as much of a penalty as it appears.  Sure the carrying capacity is reduced by 25%, BUT: Armor weight is reduced by 50% (see the special note at the bottom of the armor table), and many kinds of equipment are reduced  by 75% (again special note at the bottom of the equipment table).So if we assume the same die roll used for strength: (unlikely, since one tends to arrange one's scores to avoid things like str 8).Human (str 10)Carrying Capacity: 0-33,34-66,67-100Chainmail: 40 lbs.Backpack: 2 lb.Traveler's Outfit: 5 lb.Total: 47 lbs. (Medium Load)Gnome (str 8)Carrying Capacity: 0-19,20-39,40-60Chainmail: 20 lbs.Backpack: .5 lbs.Traveler's Outfit: 1.25 lbs.Total: 21.75 lbs. (Barely Medium Load)Hmm. Interesting.  As a matter of fact, this appears to place the gnome at an advantage, if all relevant things come into play.  And you compared a greater quantity of "general" items such as the backpack (e.g. Sacks, tents, water pouches, etc.) the difference actually truly becomes an advantage.  Hmm. I wonder if I can cram my human wizard into a gnome-tent. <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=":)" />Weapons selection clouds the issue, since a smaller character is going to usually select smaller weapons which deal less damage, but weigh less.And this is assuming that the "small" creature is like the gnome and has a str penalty.  I believe there are some that are small, and have no str penalty definitely have an advantage...the load above becomes a definite light load at str 10 for small creature.'course, re-reading this makes me re-wonder about large creatures.  Presumably they intend (and it may be mentioned somewhere I didn't see), that items made for larger creatures are correspondingly heavier? Hmm. 80 lb. Chainmail, anyone?</blockquote>

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