Friday, March 10, 2017

Moldvay Equipment Encumbrance

Soooo...you ever even notice there is a whole section in Moldvay Basic about encumbrance, and then they don't actually tell you how much your characters shit weights? Yeah, I didn't think so, but I'm just gonna post this here anyway, because your characters shit weights more than 80 cn's or 8 lbs.



Item

Cost in gp
Enc (cn)
Backpack
holds 400 coins

 5
  5
Flask of Oil


 2
 10
Hammer (small)


 2
 10
Holy Symbol


25
  1
Holy Water
1 vial

25
  1
Iron Spikes


 1
 60
Lantern
uses oil

10
 30
Mirror
hand-sized, steel

 5
  5
Rations:




  Iron Rations
preserved food for 1 person/1 week

15
 70
  Standard Rations
unpreserved food for 1 person/1 week

 5
200
Rope
50’ length

 1
 50
Sacks:




  Small
holds 200 coins

 1
  1*
  Large
holds 600 coins

 2
  5*
Thieves’ Tools


25
 10
Tinder Box
flint and steel

 3
  5
Torches (6)


 1
120
Water/Wine Skin


 1
  5*
Wine
1 quart

 1
 30
Wolfsbane
1 bunch

10
  1
Wooden Pole
10’ length

 1
100


* weight in coins when empty


Also, for those of you who have trouble figuring out how to covert coin weight  to pounds, I have a magical means to figure it out. Take your opposable digit on your right hand and put it over the digit on the far right of the number in question. Viola! now it's in pounds. If you have an object from real life item that you would like to include in your game, and you know the weight of said object, all you need to covert it to coin weight is add a zero to the end of the number. Viola! more magic.

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