Metric? Keep or change?

[tbeard1999]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Listing weights in Encumbrance Units is a perfectly viable option, and has the useful side benefit that you can adjust the rating for objects that are unusually convenient or inconvenient relative to their weight.

Yes, but there are many times where you need to know what something weighs. Encumbrance units wouldn't be an accurate or useful system for that.

I agree, by the way, that weight isn't necessarily correlated to encumbrance. I'd be fine with a separate encumbrance system. At the least, give certain items an adjustment to weight when determining encumbrance.