Comments on: D&D 4E review: The backpack dilemma

By: Mollie Meadows

Mollie Meadows — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:48:42 +0000

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By: Yax

Yax — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:05:41 +0000

Thank you, Nic! Now we’re talking! No more bag of holding! No more RSF!

Aren’t you glad we have war and armies to help us out with our D&D dilemmas?

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:02:06 +0000

I think we may have a real-world solution to this, employed in most western armies…

The Full Marching Order (FMO) is everything you carry when you leave your spot for an unknown amount of hours/days… generally a big backpack. When you enter combat (or when an Artiste wants to make a picture of you) you ditch it in a hidden place or simply drop it to keep only you… The Full Fighting Order (FFO) which is generally strap directly to you and carries all you need for dealing with the enemy (and looking good). The ditching itself takes about as much time as rolling the initiative dice so it would make sense to make it a free action…

By: Yax

Yax — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:02:09 +0000

The encumbrance rules are not very restrictive. Although when I had a player with a str score of 6 I thought it was great that she had to think her combat tactics and equipment better becuase she had less gear.

By: Idle Tuesday

Idle Tuesday — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:56:53 +0000

Um…I thought there were encumbrance to take care of this problem. If you carry too much, you’re too slow. I think characters should be limited to carrying only so much. It makes those dilemmas more realistic: “I knew I should have brought that phial of ….” Think of Bilbo caching treasure to pick up on the way home.