Double encumbrance?

[TheBlueFox]

Is there any penalty to going past single encumbrance?

For example, if I have 10 strength, my weight allotment is 50lbs.

But I don't seem to suffer any effects until I hit 100lbs.

Normally, you'd lose 10 feet of your movement and have disadvantage, and then at double encumbrance you'd lose 20 feet of your movement. Are there any effects to going over by 1 stage in BG3?

[B Rad Mojad]

If there is a penalty, I haven't noticed it. My main character is almost always past the first encumbrance level due to habitual looting and being too lazy to stop and redistribute everything amongst other party members.

[cmwinchell]

So a strength 10 in BG3 can carry 100 pounds easily. You get around double that until you have a negative issue (you can no longer run). If you go beyond that you get so encumbered that you can't move.

[cmwinchell]

Your weight (in pounds) that you can carry is your Strength Score * 10.

[TheBlueFox]

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

Your weight (in pounds) that you can carry is your Strength Score * 10.

Actually, it's Strength score *5. Beyond that you take penalties. at strength *10 you take even FURTHER penalties.

From the player's handbook under Encumbrance:

If you carry weight in excess of 5 times your Strength score, you are encumbered, which means your speed drops by 10 feet.

If you carry weight in excess of 10 times your Strength score, up to your maximum carrying Capacity, you are instead heavily encumbered, which means your speed drops by 20 feet and you have disadvantage on Ability Checks, Attack rolls, and Saving Throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.



So far, I have not seen a speed drop at Strength * 5

[cmwinchell]

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

Your weight (in pounds) that you can carry is your Strength Score * 10.

Actually, it's Strength score *5. Beyond that you take penalties. at strength *10 you take even FURTHER penalties.

From the player's handbook under Encumbrance:

If you carry weight in excess of 5 times your Strength score, you are encumbered, which means your speed drops by 10 feet.

If you carry weight in excess of 10 times your Strength score, up to your maximum carrying Capacity, you are instead heavily encumbered, which means your speed drops by 20 feet and you have disadvantage on Ability Checks, Attack rolls, and Saving Throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.



So far, I have not seen a speed drop at Strength * 5

Let me rephrase this:

In Baldur's Gate 3, this computer game, it is Strength * 10.

And in 5E Carrying Capacity is Strengths * 15.

What you quoted is under the Encumbrance Variant, but that doesn't tell you how to calculate your carrying capacity. It just tells you the negative effects for going over your carrying capacity.

Can you imagine a fighter with 16 Strength really only being able to carry 80 pounds?

[TheBlueFox]

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Actually, it's Strength score *5. Beyond that you take penalties. at strength *10 you take even FURTHER penalties.

From the player's handbook under Encumbrance:

If you carry weight in excess of 5 times your Strength score, you are encumbered, which means your speed drops by 10 feet.

If you carry weight in excess of 10 times your Strength score, up to your maximum carrying Capacity, you are instead heavily encumbered, which means your speed drops by 20 feet and you have disadvantage on Ability Checks, Attack rolls, and Saving Throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.



So far, I have not seen a speed drop at Strength * 5

Let me rephrase this:

In Baldur's Gate 3, this computer game, it is Strength * 10.

And in 5E Carrying Capacity is Strengths * 15.

What you quoted is under the Encumbrance Variant, but that doesn't tell you how to calculate your carrying capacity.

Can you imagine a fighter with 16 Strength really only being able to carry 80 pounds?

Technically it's 80 lbs without losing speed, and up to 160 lbs without check penalties. I assumed this was the rule they were going for, since it does have "stages" of penalty

Cracked open my PHB. Page 176. 15*Strength. But even still, if that's the case, why is there an encumbrance METER that caps out at Str *5? what is the purpose of it? Why does it say X/50 and not X/100?

[cmwinchell]

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

Let me rephrase this:

In Baldur's Gate 3, this computer game, it is Strength * 10.

And in 5E Carrying Capacity is Strengths * 15.

What you quoted is under the Encumbrance Variant, but that doesn't tell you how to calculate your carrying capacity.

Can you imagine a fighter with 16 Strength really only being able to carry 80 pounds?

Technically it's 80 lbs without losing speed, and up to 160 lbs without check penalties. I assumed this was the rule they were going for, since it does have "stages" of penalty

Cracked open my PHB. Page 176. 15*Strength. But even still, if that's the case, why is there an encumbrance METER that caps out at Str *5? what is the purpose of it? Why does it say X/50 and not X/100?

The meter should show x/100. Mine does. I'm going to test a setting real quick and get back to you.

[TheBlueFox]

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Technically it's 80 lbs without losing speed, and up to 160 lbs without check penalties. I assumed this was the rule they were going for, since it does have "stages" of penalty

Cracked open my PHB. Page 176. 15*Strength. But even still, if that's the case, why is there an encumbrance METER that caps out at Str *5? what is the purpose of it? Why does it say X/50 and not X/100?

The meter should show x/100. Mine does. I'm going to test a setting real quick and get back to you.

Please do. I checked Gale not long ago as a test.

His weight meter said 45, which is 9 * 5 so that fits. When it capped out, his yellow speed meter still said 9/9 meters (I forgot I could change it to Feet.). So I stacked him with 91 lbs, and he STILL had 9/9 meters, but he moved slowly. I didn't see combat though, I'll try it out another time when it's not 4am for me

[cmwinchell]

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

The meter should show x/100. Mine does. I'm going to test a setting real quick and get back to you.

Please do. I checked Gale not long ago as a test.

His weight meter said 45, which is 9 * 5 so that fits. When it capped out, his yellow speed meter still said 9/9 meters (I forgot I could change it to Feet.). So I stacked him with 91 lbs, and he STILL had 9/9 meters, but he moved slowly. I didn't see combat though, I'll try it out another time when it's not 4am for me

So both of us are correct. You're set on the Metric system and I'm using Imperial. When I switched to metric my Cleric (14 STR 140lbs) changed to from x/140 to x/70.

If you want it to show in imperial go to options. Under user options change it there. That will also change the movement from meters to feet during combat.

Still the current encumbrance is around 2-3 times and you can't run, then higher than that and you can't move in BG3.

[Aria Athena]

Maybe you can jump shorter distances. Haven't checked it though, but it should be easy to.

[TheBlueFox]

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Please do. I checked Gale not long ago as a test.

His weight meter said 45, which is 9 * 5 so that fits. When it capped out, his yellow speed meter still said 9/9 meters (I forgot I could change it to Feet.). So I stacked him with 91 lbs, and he STILL had 9/9 meters, but he moved slowly. I didn't see combat though, I'll try it out another time when it's not 4am for me

So both of us are correct. You're set on the Metric system and I'm using Imperial. When I switched to metric my Cleric (14 STR 140lbs) changed to from x/140 to x/70.

If you want it to show in imperial go to options. Under user options change it there. That will also change the movement from meters to feet during combat.

Still the current encumbrance is around 2-3 times and you can't run, then higher than that and you can't move in BG3.

Alright, that makes sense. Since there was no indication of WHAT The weight was in units, I assumed it was Imperial units. That's gonna get confusing, I'll change that when I play again. Good thing I'm not going crazy

I still think there's SOMETHING strange though. Because regardless of the weight allotment, I can still FILL that meter with nothing bad happening, and go up to DOUBLE without any penalty...

[cmwinchell]

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Originally posted by cmwinchell:

So both of us are correct. You're set on the Metric system and I'm using Imperial. When I switched to metric my Cleric (14 STR 140lbs) changed to from x/140 to x/70.

If you want it to show in imperial go to options. Under user options change it there. That will also change the movement from meters to feet during combat.

Still the current encumbrance is around 2-3 times and you can't run, then higher than that and you can't move in BG3.

Alright, that makes sense. Since there was no indication of WHAT The weight was in units, I assumed it was Imperial units. That's gonna get confusing, I'll change that when I play again. Good thing I'm not going crazy

No problem. It defaults to Metric which is to be expected given where the devs live.

[cmwinchell]

And now that I've got the game open....