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#1 BendBarsLiftGates Feb 05, 2012 0:49:02	I might need high-gravity rules for an upcoming planar adventure. How would you model this in your game? A pervasive effect. The ideal version for me would be a subtle one. Things would weigh more, so characters would have to feel the strain of moving in an alien, unwieldy environment. Double the weight of carried items. In a word: No. I don't want to recalculate encumbrance (like most DMs I barely think about it in the first place), and furthermore that's quite outside the 4e philosophy. Looking for something more exception-based. Attack penalties? A penalty to Reflex? AC? A bit bland, but it would represent the adjustment to your overall coordination and agility. Penalty to ranged weapon attacks. Very simulationy. Very 2nd Edition. Everyone is slowed. This would get real frustrating, real fast. -1 to speed. Perhaps. I might worry they'd forget about it, but it might be the way to go. Everyone is weakened. Also really frustrating. Something about healing surges to indicate the strain on stamina to move in such an oppressive environment. A localized effect. Much easier to manage. Pockets of dense matter on the ground warp gravity in a manner that is strictly outside the jurisdiction of physics to regulate. Gamma World has gravity plates, a type of terrain hazard that does two things. First, if you walk into it, your movement instantly stops. Secondly, moving out of that square costs 1 extra space of movement. Something else... Perhaps less sharp than gravity plates. Not so much "this square is normal, this square next to it is crazy penalizing." So far I'm leaning towards overall -1 speed penalty to everyone, and maybe localized gravity rock.
#2 Reg06 Feb 05, 2012 9:07:41	Double the weight of carried items. In a word: No. I don't want to recalculate encumbrance (like most DMs I barely think about it in the first place), and furthermore that's quite outside the 4e philosophy. Looking for something more exception-based. Is there a dwarf in the party? If so, then double the weight of all gear and make the players calculate encumbrance. This gives the dwarf a time to shine and use that racial ability. If there isn't a dwarf, then consider increasing the DC of any Strength check to move an object (actually, do that that even if there is a dwarf). Attack penalties? A penalty to Reflex? AC? A bit bland, but it would represent the adjustment to your overall coordination and agility.