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Old 07-05-2011, 12:44 PM   #35
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: [LT] Portcullises

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Originally Posted by Dunadin777 View Post
Everyone keeps invoking the Extra-heavy encumbrance weight limit, which is wrong. The rules specifically state that X-Hvy encumbrance is more than a person can normally lift--loading one object into a pack at a time, you could carry 10xBL, but there's no way you could realistically lift that much in the first place.
That's pretty well irrelevant, since we've got a lifting mechanism, and the required power output is fairly trivial (and BL*8 in 4 seconds, assuming that's lift to 6', is about BL*5 ft-lb per second, or BL*15 lb at 1'/3s').
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