Encumbrance and Dodging

[Stranger]

Recently, I was getting some very strange dodge rolls. I was fighting a carrier and it hit me EVERY time without fail. I later figured out that this was due to my encumbrance (carrying many pelts) Would it be possible to add some sort of exclamation mark or something to the dodge roll so we can tell when encumbrance is affecting it?

[TwistedAkai]

I think for some people this would be just about all the time. It might be better to show it in effects, if it isn't there already.

[xavier]

enc command or the color of your encumberance is a really good indicator. it really starts getting bad when you are somewhat burdened.

[Elystole]

I've been having a real problem with this, so I sat down and did some experimentation. I started naked with an empty store-bought backpack (four pounds) and started putting pieces of leather (one pound each) in my backpack and checking my encumbrance. When I ran out of space, I bought a second backpack and then a satchel (two pounds). Yes, I put on clothes before running to the store.

"(White) You feel light and unburdened." Zero to 20 pounds.
"(Blue) You're not carrying much at all, and you can move without really feeling much impact from the weight." 21 to 40 pounds.
"(Green) You're not carrying too much, you should be able to move about fairly unburdened." 41 to 60 pounds.
"(Yellow) You're feeling somewhat burdened by the weight you're carrying." 61 to 80 pounds. I hear this is where you start taking a dodge penalty, but I wasn't able to find a GM quote. Can someone verify?
"(Brown) You're feeling burdened by all the weight you're carrying." 81 to 100 pounds. At this point you can't swim anymore.
"(Red) You're definitely feeling the weight of all the stuff you're carrying." 101 to 120 pounds.
"(Dark red) You feel heavily encumbered by all the weight you're carrying. Better find somewhere to unload." 121 pounds and up.

So I have a goal: Keep my weight below sixty pounds. I can put on all of my clothes, a haft-frog (one pound) and handaxe (three pounds?), and one holster (one pound) with revolver (three pounds plus ammo) and stay at white-level. I can add another holster and revolver, a shield (five pounds?), an empty rucksack (four pounds), and a pouch (one pound plus poultice-treated bandages and some ammo) and stay at blue. What seems to screw me over is my satchel full of survival supplies including ammo (powderhorns are a pound each, and 20 shots equal a pound), a light source (0.5 per firestone, 1.25 for a lantern, and 0.75 per oil), bandages (50 bandages equal a pound), a skinning knife, and food, but if I shave off a few extra pounds here and there I can somehow manage to stay in the green. I'd still love some saddlebags for things like light and food.

What gets me is armor. Even with the weight reduction of losing my boots, coat, and hat, a full suit of rigid leather pushes me from green to brown. And that's the second-lightest type of armor available (though rigid leather counts as 'moderately armored' for some reason). Switching to soft leather only spares me a few pounds at the price of what looks like significantly worse damage reduction, but is enough to get me back down to yellow.

And now that the cold season is upon us, simply putting on a fur cloak takes up half of a weight bracket. I can also say that riln gets heavy fast. When I first started this experiment I had 2561 riln on me, and it added ten pounds.

[TwistedAkai]

[...] I had 2561 riln on me, and it added ten pounds.

Sounds about right. Anything gets heavy fast at that quantity. Small trivia: Based on those numbers, a single riln has roughly the weight of a US penny, leaning less. If we assume 10 lbs is exact, it weighs about two thirds the weight of a penny.