Encumbrance

Encumbrance indicates the effect that the weight of gear that a character is carrying has on his movement rate. There are 3 levels of encumbrance:

• None/Light- The character can run and walk at full speed.
• Normal-The character cannot run, but can walk at full speed.
• Heavy-The character cannot run, the character walks at 50% normal speed.

The amount of weight corresponding to threshold between levels of encumbrance is dependent on strength and specified in encumbrance.2da. The table is repeated here for completeness:

Strength Normal Heavy 1 6 10 2 13 20 3 20 30 4 26 40 5 33 50 6 40 60 7 46 70 8 53 80 9 60 90 10 66 100 11 76 115 12 86 130 13 100 150 14 116 175 15 133 200 16 153 230 17 173 260 18 200 300 19 233 350 20 266 400 21 306 460 22 346 520 23 400 600 24 466 700 25 533 800

Strength Normal Heavy 26 613 920 27 693 1040 28 800 1200 29 933 1400 30 1064 1600 31 1224 1840 32 1384 2080 33 1600 2400 34 1864 2800 35 2132 3200 36 2452 3680 37 2772 4160 38 3200 4800 39 3732 5600 40 4256 6400 41 4896 7360 42 5536 8320 43 6400 9600 44 7456 11200 45 8528 12800 46 9808 14720 47 11088 16640 48 12800 19200 49 14928 22400 50 17024 25600

PnP Comparison

Encumbrance has more severe repercussions in PnP, it restricts a character like armor: including restricting the Maximum dexterity bonus a character can add to Armor Class and introducing an Armor check penalty to skills. Encumbrance is also size dependent, smaller creatures can carry less weight than a large creature of the same strength before becoming encumbered. None of this was incorporated in NWN2.