[ArM5] Questions regarding ghosts (Calebais - the broken covenant)and encumberance/burden/load

[Varius]

Can't answer the first without my books, but:


> The second question regards uncumberance. Comparing some of
> the characters in the rule book (and in Calebais) as well as
> the chars downloadable from Atlas games I cant get the
> encumberance to match.

> For example; if a character has 9 in load, this should give
> 4 in burden (1 in load = 1 in burden, 3 in load = 2 in
> burden, 6 in load = 3 in burden, 10 in load = 4 in burden)
> which with strength 2 should give an encumberance of 2,
> right? Take the grog templates (on page 21) as example. The
> berserker has a full metal scale armor (soak 7, load 7) and
> a pole axe (load 2). This gives load 9, which I take as
> burden 4, which with his strength (+3) gives an encumberance
> of 1 (4) but the rule book lists him as encumberance 0 (3).
> So, what am I doing wrong?

That's the beauty of the pyramid scale - you never round up!

So:

Load 1 -> Burden 1
Load 2 -> Burden 1 (plus 1 to the next level, which is ignored)
Load 3 -> Burden 2 (plus none)
Load 4 -> Burden 2 (plus 1... you get it)
...
Load 9 -> Burden 3 (plus 3 to the next level, which are ignored)
Load 10 -> Burden 4 (plus none)

I think this is in the FAQ in a somewhat more elaborate wording. Or at laest
I think it should be.

Varius