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02-10-2020, 07:58 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jun 2016
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Horizontal/Quadruped and BL
Double checking that stuff like Horizontal and Quadruped don’t have knock-on effects on your carrying capacity. You have to explicitly buy Lifting ST if you want that effect.
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02-10-2020, 11:33 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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Re: Horizontal/Quadruped and BL
Yes. You pay for what you get.
However, you if you have no fine manipulators, which is included in Quadruped, you can apply a -40% limitation to buying strength.
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02-11-2020, 06:49 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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Re: Horizontal/Quadruped and BL
Probably worth noting of course that most beings can carry more on their backs than in their arms which is how quadriped mounts tend to do, relying on other's ST to actually lift the stuff (or themselves) ONTO their backs so that only Encumbrance is an issue.
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02-11-2020, 07:34 AM | #4 | |
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Horizontal/Quadruped and BL
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With the kinds of ST scores animals are usually given, you don't need Lifting ST, you often need an encumbrance *reduction* to get realistic carrying capacities from your horses or dogs or whatever.
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02-11-2020, 09:56 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Jan 2015
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Re: Horizontal/Quadruped and BL
I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as someone like lwcamp, but from the little I know horses are particularly good at carrying stuff in their back compared to other similar quadrupeds like zebras, something about their spines.
Given the above and previous discussions, I think the most realistic approach is to give horses some levels of Lifting ST on top of their normal ST (which might be lower than what B459-460 suggests). |
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