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The original was posted on /r/osr by /u/Odd-Unit-2372 on 2024-10-17 17:58:11+00:00.

So the majority of my game background is 5e and we literally always ignored encumbrance (the game was already so slow I couldn’t beat slowing it more)

My group finally soured on 5e and I have finally gotten them to make the jump to B/X mostly. I really didn’t bother with carry weight at first but then the players started just having absurd amounts of coin (and XP) because they could just leave dungeons with everything. (I was also doing some other things wrong as well that I believe contributed to this)

I started using all the bag capacities in OSE but now I’ve just sort of settled on strength score times 100.I really haven’t made the jump to items yet. I don’t think I’m going to either I find tracking coins a bother already.

So my question I suppose is, how strict are your encumbrance rules? What is the trade off? Do you even care about encumbrance?

Edit: I should specify, I don’t really care if it’s a b/x perspective as well. I’m kicking around a few other OSR systems so I’m interested in alot of ideas