Weight Calculation?

[Rolis]

Anyone have this? How much each race can hold before being encumbered.
I know its something like weight*racial bonus and some other stuff. Anyone have the exact formula and how much each race weighs so that I could calculate this. Was interested in forest gnomes particularly and I guess I wanted to compare it to other elf. I normally play as elf race and was thinking of making a forest gnome but want to know how much the difference would be in how much that I could hold.

[mgoddess]

From the QRS (Quick Reference Script):

Base body weight: The base body weight for the race. A character's body weight is determined by BASE BODY WEIGHT * (1 + (CO-50)/200 + (ST-50)/200)

Racial Base Body Weights
Dark Elves: 155 pounds
Sylvan: 145 pounds
Elves: 140 pounds
Half-Elves: 165 pounds
Giantmen: 240 pounds
Dwarves: 155 pounds
Halflings: 90 pounds
Humans: 180 pounds

Hrmm...seems the QRS is missing quite a few races. *mumble* Probably doesn't help much then, does it? I'd say gnomes would probably be near the Halflings base weight...Erithians & Aelotians probably based near Elves...Half-Krol around Giantmen...etc.

[Latrinsorm]

In the words of the inimitable Pallon, gnomes have some serious tank ass action going on.

Giantman 1.33
Human 1.00
Half Elf 0.92
Dark Elf 0.84
Sylvankind 0.81
Dwarf 0.80
Elf 0.78
Halfling 0.50

Modifiers for worn stuff that isn't armor.

[Bobmuhthol]

I thought those were the modifiers for only armor...

[Latrinsorm]

Easy way to test it. Grab Bobmuhthol, load him up with silvers until he's encumbered, deposit one, hand him some armor and have him wear it. If those modifiers are for armor, it will weigh 1.33 times as much as normal but only the base weight will be subtracted off, making him encumbered.

[Bobmuhthol]

...?

The whole thing is that the modifier is multiplied by the difference from base weight. If you have armor whose base weight is 25 pounds, but your set weighs 22 pounds, then as a giantman you can hold 3 * 1.333 = 4 more pounds without being encumbered. Conversely, if it weighs 28, you're carrying an extra 4 pounds.

[Axhinde]

I thought it applied to base weight only, instead of the difference between the two. So, you wear armor with a base of 25, then 25 * 1.33 = 33 pounds, so you can wear an additional 8 pounds before being encumbered. If its actual weight was 23, then you have 10 pounds extra before being encumbered.

Edit: I also was under the impression that the converse of the weight was if the armor was held, instead of worn.

[Drew]

The list Latrinsorm posted is for non-armour worn items. If you play a giant you want to wear the lightest armour possible and the least amount of other worn items to maximize your carrying capacity. If your giant is wearing a 10 pound cloak it weighs 13.3 pounds to him.

[OoK]

The modifiers that were posted is for all worn items. Like Drew said, a 10 pound cloak on a giantman weights 13.3 pounds, but a 10 pound cloak on a halfling weights 5 pounds (but both would weight just 10 pound if held in your hand or in a container).

Same goes for Armor. A giant wearing 75 pound plate is really wearing 99.75 pound plate. HOWEVER, because the plate is worn, he is also getting 99.75 pounds subtracted from his encumberance.

Now if a giant is wearing 60 pound plate, when he's wearing it it weights 60*1.33 or 79.8 pounds. He still gets the 99.75 "Worn Full Plate" amount subtracted off, so he's at -19.95 pounds encumbered. He has an extra 20 pounds he can hold before being at 0 again.

The easiest way to deal with armor though is to just take the normal difference (75-60 in this case), which is 15, and then multiply by the 1.33.

A human would be 15 pounds light, but a giant would be ~20 pounds light, and a halfling would suck and be at only 7.5 pounds light.

So what Drew said is the best summary. If you play a giant you want to wear the lightest armour possible and the least amount of other worn items to maximize your carrying capacity.

-OoK

[Drew]

Thanks for the expanded information Ook.