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<blockquote data-quote="M_Natas" data-source="post: 9110166" data-attributes="member: 7025918"><p>It looks like you don't want to understand what I'm saying and made up your mind beforehand.</p><p>Encumberance works and interacts together with other rules to create meaningful interactions that force decision points in the game.</p><p>Without encumberance, the players can just carry as much food as they can afford. And at a certain point, money to buy rations is not an issue (If we go by Raw).</p><p></p><p>Encumberance in combination with ressource management is essential. Without it, players can just stockpile everything they come across and make ressoruce management mood. An encumberance system is necessary for the ressource management to be meaningful.</p><p>If I can can carry unlimited rations, I don't need to bother with ressource management. I don't need to bother with foraging, I don't need the Outlander Background or Survival Skill. I don't need hirelings or donkey to carry my stuff. I just carry everything I'll ever find or can buy around with me.</p><p></p><p>Without encumberance there is no ressource management (with things that need to be carried).</p><p></p><p>And it is more than a simple calculation, because of the limit amount of things you can carry you must decide, which suboptimal (in comparison to an optimal decision, which would be to carry everything) solution you take. Encumberance forces you to make a compromise, to not have the optimal decision if just carry everything.</p><p></p><p>Without encumberance, there is of course an optimal decision: carry everything. Buy all the rations you can buy, buy all the equipment you can possibly need and bring it with you.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, you can limit that also by the amount of money and the prices ... and you definitely should, additionally to tracking encumberance, because all those game rules interact with each other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M_Natas, post: 9110166, member: 7025918"] It looks like you don't want to understand what I'm saying and made up your mind beforehand. Encumberance works and interacts together with other rules to create meaningful interactions that force decision points in the game. Without encumberance, the players can just carry as much food as they can afford. And at a certain point, money to buy rations is not an issue (If we go by Raw). Encumberance in combination with ressource management is essential. Without it, players can just stockpile everything they come across and make ressoruce management mood. An encumberance system is necessary for the ressource management to be meaningful. If I can can carry unlimited rations, I don't need to bother with ressource management. I don't need to bother with foraging, I don't need the Outlander Background or Survival Skill. I don't need hirelings or donkey to carry my stuff. I just carry everything I'll ever find or can buy around with me. Without encumberance there is no ressource management (with things that need to be carried). And it is more than a simple calculation, because of the limit amount of things you can carry you must decide, which suboptimal (in comparison to an optimal decision, which would be to carry everything) solution you take. Encumberance forces you to make a compromise, to not have the optimal decision if just carry everything. Without encumberance, there is of course an optimal decision: carry everything. Buy all the rations you can buy, buy all the equipment you can possibly need and bring it with you. Yeah, you can limit that also by the amount of money and the prices ... and you definitely should, additionally to tracking encumberance, because all those game rules interact with each other. [/QUOTE]
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