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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6168870" data-attributes="member: 37579">In my experience, this is one of those rare situations where there is two distinct camps: those who track encumbrance and those who don't. The nitpickiness of the system doesn't matter to the latter and is fine for the former.Having to consult a chart is annoying but it's something you only need to look at during character gen so it's forgivable. I've thought about this a bit and mused about a &quot;slot&quot; system. Characters have so many equipment slots based on their Strength score and items take up a set amount of slots. Containers like backpacks hold a certain amount of goods. Items under a pound don't count or count as something like 5 or 10 to a slot. Kinda like Diablo without the equipment Tetris. While I haven't done the math, off the top of my head it might worth with each 5 lbs counting as one &quot;slot&quot;, and one slot per point of strength. Depending on how it compares to the chart this might be adventuring gear only and exclude worn equipment, or not. But I'd prefer if it only counted carried gear, or if worn equipment applied a reduced penalty to carrying capacity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6168870, member: 37579"] In my experience, this is one of those rare situations where there is two distinct camps: those who track encumbrance and those who don't. The nitpickiness of the system doesn't matter to the latter and is fine for the former. Having to consult a chart is annoying but it's something you only need to look at during character gen so it's forgivable. I've thought about this a bit and mused about a "slot" system. Characters have so many equipment slots based on their Strength score and items take up a set amount of slots. Containers like backpacks hold a certain amount of goods. Items under a pound don't count or count as something like 5 or 10 to a slot. Kinda like Diablo without the equipment Tetris. While I haven't done the math, off the top of my head it might worth with each 5 lbs counting as one "slot", and one slot per point of strength. Depending on how it compares to the chart this might be adventuring gear only and exclude worn equipment, or not. But I'd prefer if it only counted carried gear, or if worn equipment applied a reduced penalty to carrying capacity. [/QUOTE]

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