Monday, March 14, 2011

The Only Place I Absolutely Insist on Realism, Item Weights

Item weights once place I insist the game rules need to more or less match reality.

I've handled waterskins, mail armor, shields, historical swords, leather packs, food similar to iron rations and lots more. I know what they weigh and there is no way that I am going to be able to ignore nonsense like 10lb swords (like 2e Bastard Sword) and 100lb armor. And yes as much as I loved old school these days, item weights well, were one of the clear cut cases of "Good Old Days Weren't" with old school games.


Happily I have plenty of information on better weights and am not at the mercy of game writers who research was well, lacking.
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  1. migellitoMarch 16, 2011 at 7:11 PM

    I'd be interested in this as well. Can you point me to some better weight numbers?

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  2. 5stonegamesMarch 21, 2011 at 5:28 PM

    GURPS Low Tec 4th edition has has researched numbers for most everything. Combined with GURPS Basic and possibly "And a Ten Foot Pole" if you use metric you will have the weights of pretty much everything

    However I'll try to come up with some easy ones for a post down the line.

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