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<blockquote data-quote="Matthias" data-source="post: 6168727" data-attributes="member: 3625">One of the nice things about PF is that it neatly eliminated the whole accounting mini-game that was built into the skill rank rules of 3.X. Unfortunately, we did not get a satisfactory substitute for the bean-counting exercise that is the encumbrance rules.Of course there are GMs and players who ignore the issue altogether, and would prefer to focus on more productive exercises that involve actually rolling dice and earning XP. But for everyone else, there is a certain need to try to inject some realism into how much stuff a given character can carry around, or how much their mount, wagon, boat, airship, etc. can hold at one time.So there must be some sort of elegant method to let us pretend that a PC's Strength score actually means something in terms of carrying capacity, without falling into the trap of pretending you are an Internal Encumbrance Service agent auditing the net effective weight of their total worldly possessions, minus deductions for animal dependants, extradimensional containment devices, and so on.Perhaps something along the lines of d20 Modern's &quot;wealth bonus&quot; provides a clue to how encumbrance can be &quot;simulated&quot; without getting into the gritty detail of every object of non-negligible weight.What house rules for encumbrance do you use, experimented with (perhaps unsuccessfully), or have considered using in future?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matthias, post: 6168727, member: 3625"] One of the nice things about PF is that it neatly eliminated the whole accounting mini-game that was built into the skill rank rules of 3.X. Unfortunately, we did not get a satisfactory substitute for the bean-counting exercise that is the encumbrance rules. Of course there are GMs and players who ignore the issue altogether, and would prefer to focus on more productive exercises that involve actually rolling dice and earning XP. But for everyone else, there is a certain need to try to inject some realism into how much stuff a given character can carry around, or how much their mount, wagon, boat, airship, etc. can hold at one time. So there must be some sort of elegant method to let us pretend that a PC's Strength score actually means something in terms of carrying capacity, without falling into the trap of pretending you are an Internal Encumbrance Service agent auditing the net effective weight of their total worldly possessions, minus deductions for animal dependants, extradimensional containment devices, and so on. Perhaps something along the lines of d20 Modern's "wealth bonus" provides a clue to how encumbrance can be "simulated" without getting into the gritty detail of every object of non-negligible weight. What house rules for encumbrance do you use, experimented with (perhaps unsuccessfully), or have considered using in future? [/QUOTE]

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