| | You are not authorized to post a reply. |
| | Author | Messages | |
TYGRHobbes
Sneak
149 Posts
    
 | | 07/26/2006 5:33 PM |
| I've made a quick remedy for those games that have the PCs carrying around small stores on their backs. Now they can't pick up every single piece of arms and equipment to sell. I modeled these after the Neverwinter Nights inventory screens. It also has a quick way of accounting weight. These are by no means accurate with the 3.5 rules, I just wanted a quick and easy way to keep track of space and weight as a house rule. I just use a china marker or dry erase pen to mark off the squares. If anyone wants these in Photoshop form, just chime in, if there's enough of you I'll put up a link here.
Green is light load, yellow is medium, and red is heavy. On the bag of holding, each type increase lets you add two more rows of space. Most items can only be put in vertically. The square and horizontal items are noted. Of course you can change these rules to meet your needs. | |
Champion of the Lamia
www.tygrhobbes.com | |
|
Grim
Sergeant
482 Posts
| | 07/26/2006 7:19 PM |
| | Neat idea. Very video gameish. | |
I am a leaf on the wind...Urrk!!--Wash, "Serenity" | |
|
gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 07/26/2006 8:10 PM |
| It'sa very intersting idea, but I'm not seeing how weight comes into this? How is this easier than just doing a running calculation of weight? I've never played NWN so maybe there is something that I'm missing, but although useful to really determine whether you can carry somthing, as of now without more explanation I don't see it as easier for calculating encumberance.
| |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
Champion of Radiant Sevant | |
|
kestrel.ca
Underboss
1687 Posts
| | 07/26/2006 9:20 PM |
| I think in this case, it's encumbrance based more on volume than on actual weight. It's a very visual way to check encumbrance, instead of a mathematical way. Simply an alternative. If I were to adapt this (normally our campaigns don't even worry about encumbrance), I'd assign each square an approximate weight value, and then assign most items a weight in terms of squares.
TygrHobbes - the only glaring problem I can see, is that I don't see a way to differentiate between a Str 8 halfing wizard, and a Str 20 half-orc barbarian. Normally, I'd expect the half-orc to be able to sling the halfling onto his back and hardly notice! Perhaps extend the green/yellow/red areas down a row for each point of str bonus? (Similar to your bag of holding extension.) | |
Completed Trades/Transactions: 94 || Bad Trades: 3 (Chaotic Good x2, MackeyV) | |
|
Grim
Sergeant
482 Posts
| | 07/26/2006 9:39 PM |
| | Older editions used to differentiate items for encumbrance reasons. That rolled up carpet might only weigh 30 lbs but carrying a rolle up carpet is far more encumbrancing than the mere weight. Imagine fighting with one of those over your shoulder (or a canoe, etc.) Not very graceful I'd say. | |
I am a leaf on the wind...Urrk!!--Wash, "Serenity" | |
|
TYGRHobbes
Sneak
149 Posts
| | 07/26/2006 10:28 PM |
| kestrel.ca - Yes, I was thinking the same thing about large and small creatures and those with different strengths. You pretty much hit the nail on the head with your suggestion of adding or subtracting green rows. I was thinking of every 2 points of strength (+ or -) you could move the green over a few spaces. I think I'd start the chart at 12 strength. Also, the weight of an item is somewhat represented by how many spaces a certain item takes up. You can see for example that a greatsword takes up 10 squares and a short sword takes up only 3. A greatsword is wider as well, that represents it taking up more space on the person.
It's totally up to the DM on how many spaces he wants a certain item to take up. My representation of an item may be different than someone elses. The top white portion sizes can be used to judge items sizes somewhat, it's mostly there just to see what the character has equipped (you have space to draw little pictures if you want [:)])
One of the reasons I made this is that when trying to calculate 7-8 PCs base weight and then adding all the items they find along the way it becomes a math nightmare trying to keep track of all the numbers. I just wanted a quick way to jot down the items and visually see if they can fit more items on them. I never used encumbrance or weight before, but it got out of hand when everyone would try to take every single item not nailed down to sell. This way I can add a simple way of getting both rules in the game without any hassle. | |
Champion of the Lamia
www.tygrhobbes.com | |
|
gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 07/27/2006 2:01 AM |
| | Ah. I was misreading the chart, but I think I see it now. Thanks. | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
Champion of Radiant Sevant | |
|
kestrel.ca
Underboss
1687 Posts
| | 07/27/2006 2:55 AM |
| Don't most PCs exit a dungeon dragging three or four large sacks of loot?
Once while playing Return to Temple of Elemental Evil, we actually used a wagon we found to load up all the looted gear to sell later. We parked it in a storage room and when it was full took it back to town! We knew there was to much to carry, but the wagon helped us get it all back. And then we had to rent/take over a building to hold all our loot while we continued to adventure because it was to far to the nearest town that could fence it for us. Of course, the rogue got to set some traps as did the spellcasters, hoping that it would still be there when we got back. | |
Completed Trades/Transactions: 94 || Bad Trades: 3 (Chaotic Good x2, MackeyV) | |
|
TYGRHobbes
Sneak
149 Posts
| | 07/27/2006 4:30 AM |
| | There's way too much loot in Red Hand of Doom, they had a wagon but forgot what they did with it, lol! | |
Champion of the Lamia
www.tygrhobbes.com | |
| *censored*
glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 07/29/2006 12:54 PM |
| | got a clean template of the tables? I like it [:D] | |
Trades >> Completed: 49 | Bad: Ø | Pending: 0 | Trade & talk Live on IRC! SERVER: irc.psionics.net CHANNEL: #maxminis | |
|
| | You are not authorized to post a reply. |
|
| |
ActiveForums 3.7 | You must be signed in to participate in the
games. |