August Radiance Thread

[Oedipussy Rex]

Some definitions
Size of stat: The Rank of die allowed by a Depth stat (1-5) or the maximum number of dice allowed in a pool by a Width stat (1-10).
Size of a pool: the number of dice actually in the pool.

Notation: || stat ||, || pool || would be the proper way to notate cardinality (size) but I'm too lazy to type all that and will just go with |stat| and |pool|.

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Advance post for Tuesday

Encumbrance
This is problematic. As with Ə, I'm not going to do equipment/price lists for PoR; I figure that there are enough resources available that it's not worth my time and effort. Besides, part of the reason there are so many of the damn things is because nobody likes the equipment lists provided by game systems and everybody thinks they can do better. Equipment lists are like Hungarian Goulash; there are 9.8 million people in Hungary and there are 9.9 million authentic family recipes.

Unlike Ə, I'm not trying for heavy abstraction with its Items and Stuff, or even middling abstraction such as Gygax's "coin" value for encumbrance (yeah, a large sack of feathers is very light, but it's really big so it's equivalent to a waraxe which is heavy but easy to carry). In PoR, encumbrance will be based solely on weight, but this creates a problem: how does one know how much a character can carry when we can't know how much anything weighs in general because of a lack of a system equipment/price list? By going to outside sources we find that leather armor may weigh 20 lbs. according to one resource, and 10 lbs. in another.

Toward this issue I'm creating the Leather Armor unit of encumbrance, or LA, which is the weight of Leather Armor in the equipment system you use. A character can carry |Brawn| x |Stamina| LAs without penalty. (Oh yeah! I'm changing the Combat stat to Stamina.) If this limit is exceeded every task becomes a strenuous task and for every part of |Brawn| LAs over the limit, the number of Turns between Fatigue checks is reduced by 1. A character cannot carry more than twice the limit. This is not to say that a character cannot perform feats of strength with items that weigh more, just that they cannot perform normal tasks, like fight or cook or saunter. (Amble? Mosey? No, not mosey.) Note that a character has to be able to carry something to be considered carrying it.

If unhappy with the LA unit, perhaps the SA unit or even the CA unit would be preferable. I do not recommend the PA unit for any gaming system, let alone PoR.