Re: (TFT) Encumbrance and weight

["Mack Brewer" <mbrewer@psphalifax.ns.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: grabowski <grabowski@erols.com>
To: Joe Hartley <tft@brainiac.com>
Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 8:17 PM
Subject: (TFT) Encumbrance and weight


>What other encumbrance systems has anyone else come up with out there?  I
>really don't like the fact, as an example, that you are -3 DX and -4 MA if
>you wear chain armor.  If any of you have actually worn chain (or any
armor)
>I can't see armor as being totally encumbering as that.  I believe any
>negatives should be based on total weight carried.  Ty in his revised rules
>had the idea but I believe he let's characters carry too much before they
>gain minuses to DX and movement.   Below I revised Ty's idea, see how you
>like it (It's been quiet out there and someone had to get the ball rolling
>again).
>
>Encumbrance Penalties for Weight Carried (This is based on human-type
>characters)

** comparison original chart is in ITL, pg 35.

>
>ST in kg.               DX Penalty               MA Penalty
>
>Up to 1x ST                  0                                   0
>Up to 2x ST                -1 DX                             0
>Up to 3x ST                -1 DX                          -2 MA
>Up to 4x ST                -2 DX                          -2 MA
>Up to 5x ST                -3 DX                          -4 MA
>Up to 6x ST                -4 DX                          -4 MA
>Up to 7x ST                -6 DX                          -6 MA
>Up to 8x ST                -8 DX                          -6 MA
>Up to 9x ST                -10 DX                        -8 MA
>Up to 10x ST              - 12 DX                       Can not move
>
>The other problem with encumbrance, realistically, is not just weight but
>mass or size.  It is a lot easier to carry a six-pound shot than carry and
>empty six pound refrigerator box.
>I can't think of any games that get into this idea and encumbrance.  Or put
>another way a 16 pound set of chain armor seems to weight less worn
(because
>the body/shoulders are carrying the load) than carried with your hands.  I
>can't remember is TFT the game where anything carried inside the backpack
is
>worth 1/2 encumbrance.
>
>Yours in Cidri,
>Justin


Hhmm, can't remember either but I've been playing it that way
for years now. Anything in your backpack only counts for 1/2
encumbrance and I only count half the weight of armor worn
(except shields) against encumbrance. I do count the FULL weight
of armor for swimming, however.

Mack

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