Skills with encumbrance pentalties

coronatiger · 03-21-2019, 05:10 AM

I had trouble finding the total penalty for an Acrobatic Stand while carrying the weapon of a SM+2 demon during our last session, and instead of halting combat so we could look up the rules, I made the roll thinking that the exact penalty didn't matter if I rolled sufficiently high or low. I rolled 10 under my Acrobatics skill, so even with -6 for Acrobatic Stand and -4 for double medium encumbrance penalty, it was a success. Afterwards, I tried to figure out if Acrobatics takes an encumbrance penalty, but didn't find anything.

It stands to reason that some skills, like Acrobatics, would be penalized when one is encumbered, and it would be nice if there was a list somewhere of these skills. I've seen that the description of the Stealth skill includes a paragraph about encumbrance, but there is no such note in the Acrobatics skill description. Does that mean that by RAW, Acrobatics doesn't take encumbrance penalties?

Is there a list of skills that take encumbrance penalties somewhere? What about double encumbrance penalties (like swimming)?

Celjabba · 03-21-2019, 05:44 AM

Action p37 (and Monster Hunter 2 p20, same text):

Quote:

Acrobatic Stand: If you’re lying down, you can jump to your feet using one Change Posture maneuver instead of two by making an Acrobatics roll at -6 plus encumbrance penalties.

Action (p19) (and DF-exploits p20) give (maneuver specific) encumbrance penalty to all skills used in parkour : acrobatics, jumping, climbing, skying, running and escape. I am not sure you should generalize to all use of the skills.

Flyndaran · 03-21-2019, 06:59 AM

Jumping and Running depend on speed which already takes encumbrance into account. Counting it again for base skill use would be double dipping against the character.

03-21-2019, 05:10 AM	#1
coronatiger Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Trondheim, Norway	Skills with encumbrance pentalties I had trouble finding the total penalty for an Acrobatic Stand while carrying the weapon of a SM+2 demon during our last session, and instead of halting combat so we could look up the rules, I made the roll thinking that the exact penalty didn't matter if I rolled sufficiently high or low. I rolled 10 under my Acrobatics skill, so even with -6 for Acrobatic Stand and -4 for double medium encumbrance penalty, it was a success. Afterwards, I tried to figure out if Acrobatics takes an encumbrance penalty, but didn't find anything. It stands to reason that some skills, like Acrobatics, would be penalized when one is encumbered, and it would be nice if there was a list somewhere of these skills. I've seen that the description of the Stealth skill includes a paragraph about encumbrance, but there is no such note in the Acrobatics skill description. Does that mean that by RAW, Acrobatics doesn't take encumbrance penalties? Is there a list of skills that take encumbrance penalties somewhere? What about double encumbrance penalties (like swimming)? __________________ You don't need to spend 100 CP on Status 5 [25] and Multimillionaire [75] to feel like a princess, when Delusion [-10] will do. Character sheet: Google Drive link (See this thread for details.) Campaign logs: Chaotic Pioneering / Confessions of a Forked Tongue

03-21-2019, 06:59 AM	#3
Flyndaran Untagged Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon	Re: Skills with encumbrance pentalties Jumping and Running depend on speed which already takes encumbrance into account. Counting it again for base skill use would be double dipping against the character. __________________ Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check.