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Mime

03-06-07, 02:51 PM
Am I missing something? Why is the Carry for a Heavy Horse (quadruped, Str 16) 200... instead of 230 ...?
Lyinginbedmon

03-06-07, 03:13 PM
EDIT: I'm not sure, in theory it's likely a typo, but that wouldn't explain why the other values are consistent with it
Mime

03-06-07, 03:18 PM
Because 230 is the maximum load for a character with Strength 16, 200 is the limit of a Light load for a Str 16 quadraped

But loads for a Str 16 are in the 230 ... 690 sequence. e.g. a Mule.
Mime

03-06-07, 03:24 PM
EDIT: I'm not sure, in theory it's likely a typo, but that wouldn't explain why the other values are consistent with it

Typo is what I was hoping, but as you suggest it's a "typo" that shows up in more than one place... It seemed hard to believe, given the utility and ubiquity of horses, that nobody's spotted this one before, so I thought maybe there's something I'm missing . . .
Lyinginbedmon

03-06-07, 04:56 PM
My guess is that no-one noticed it before because they assumed that such an easily integral piece of dungeoneering mythos would be correct
Mime

03-07-07, 10:52 AM
Prolly . . . anyway, thanks for confirming my sense that this was not kosher.