![]() ![]() It will give you a realistic appreciation of adventuring. ![]() Encumbrance was seen to be a balancing issue. I read a lot of military books going back a century Or more and a lot o GMs fell into this realism craze around 1978-80 that you can still see echoes of in any crunchy game from that time. Tracking weight and encumbrance ance, just reduces travel distance, not speed. In most games, since Soldiers carry about 80 lbs of Sustainment gear, I figure that Adventurers carry about the same, more or less and hand wave the rest. ![]() It looks like that game mechanic is older than I thought. Tallying up pounds of equipment is too great a burden? Truly? However, while I still won't use this simplified method, I did stumble across a similar optional rule in an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition supplement. The "Bulk" subsystem caused my skin to crawl. ![]()
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