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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1898048" data-attributes="member: 16936">....should there be?No, seriously: is the game ruined if you don't refigure the weight of what you're carrying every time you eat some rations or burn a torch or pay for something?  (All of which are, I will note, actions that reduce the weight you're carrying around and would only make you less encumbered...which doesn't matter to anyone unless they were right on the borderline of dropping to a lower encumberance.)And if your character ISN'T on the borderline of dropping to light or medium encumberance, then maybe you should just eyeball it and get on with the game.  Refigure the weight later on in the week when you've got nothing better to do:  I like to take care of nitpicky character-sheet-management crap like that while I'm doing laundry, for example.Or don't bother with it at all, and just figure that whatever weight you figured before is more or less accurate until something happens that you know significantly altered the weight of your equipment, like switching to a different set of armor or weapons or getting a portable hole or whatever, which might not happen for another half-dozen sessions or more.Because really, if keeping meticulous records of equipment weight is annoying you and dragging you out of the game, it's making that game setting less real for you.  Just get it as close to accurate as you can with whatever effort you feel like sparing for this little exercise in record-keeping, and get on with playing your character.  Oh, and make good use of all the items and spells out there that make weight considerations disappear: bags of holding and handy haversacks and portable holes and secret chests are your friends, they let you just write a bunch of junk down and never worry about how much they weigh ever again.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  It's the same effect as just adding up the weight once during a rinse cycle and not worrying about it again after that, but with an official seal of approval from the ruleset!--in the battle between having fun and being obsessively realistic, who do you think wins?ryan</blockquote>

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