Okay #ttrpgcommunity. I need some opinions. I am working on a rules-lite/medium TTRPG with a FITD adjacent system, where story is king. So, players, GMs, designers, do you like encumbrance, or not? How often do you ignore encumbrance? Do they belong in rules lite affairs? #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign - ThreadSky

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scottrowell.bsky.social • 35 days ago

Okay #ttrpgcommunity. I need some opinions. I am working on a rules-lite/medium TTRPG with a FITD adjacent system, where story is king. So, players, GMs, designers, do you like encumbrance, or not? How often do you ignore encumbrance? Do they belong in rules lite affairs? #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign

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scottrowell.bsky.social•35 days ago

I know there's lot of variables that I have left out, but I just want to get a general temperature of people's feelings on carrying capacity existing for more or less the sake of it, beyond a "yeah you're definitely carrying too much stuff" honour system

oskarghoti.bsky.social•35 days ago

Depends on how you use it; if you want me to multiply my Strength 3 times in different ways, the keep track of various items that take fraction of that number to figure if I'm encumbered or over encumbered or whatever...

...I'm just gonna ignore it.

oskarghoti.bsky.social•35 days ago

Personally, I like how it is handled in Dragonbane, with a limit of 10 or so and some items are too small to even count. Much simpler but offers the "track your stuff" element

scottrowell.bsky.social•35 days ago

Great points here thank you. I was thinking if I was going to do one at all, it’d be something like:

You have X amount of Large slots and Y amount of small slots. Each item is either large, small, or insignificant, insignificant items take no space. Large slots can carry 2 small items or 1 large.

oskarghoti.bsky.social•35 days ago

Sounds good, but you could also use universal slots and large items take up 2 slots instead. Adjust the number of slots as needed but saves you from tracking large AND small slots, at least on the character sheet

scottrowell.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh yeah that’s much cleaner, thank you!

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