Have you every estimated the Load involved in carrying a person?

7 thoughts on “Have you every estimated the Load involved in carrying a person?”

1. I’d just do something like… When you carry another person, you are encumbered.

2. Aaron Griffin, that’s good!

   I should clarify, one of the characters got the Large tag (“about as big as a cart”) from a compendium class move, and I thought it might require giving him +2 or +3 Load.

   But the standard classes can already carry about as much as a horse, so I don’t think that it’s necessary.

3. I think there’s more to carrying a human than just weight. In real life, I lift regularly, and the amount of weight I can deadlift or clean on a rigid cast iron barbell is not the same as the weight of a sandbag I can lift. Instability is a big deal

4. Load isn’t the same as weight. Load is just how much stuff you can carry un hindered. Things only take up load if they’re large and awkward to carry or have weight to them. A human would default take you to max load, because it takes full effort to carry them..they would only take you over your max load if the character struggles to carry them for one reason or another.

5. And keep in mind, historically, plate weighed between 60-100 pounds. A person, unarmored, could be twice that. With armor, equipment, awkward loads… depends on how “real” you want to approximate.

   Grim and gritty? There’s no carrying, there’s dragging out of harm’s way. Low fantasy? Drop your gear, you have a new load. Heroic fantasy? Pick him up and you’re encumbered.

6. I’d say that’s a close enough estimate. A horse really can carry 2 unarmored people without being completely overloaded, so it passes the “gives real-world results” test..

7. Aaron Griffin I agree. Having had moved a drunk buddy more than once, dead weight is horrible to carry.

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