CARRYING, MOVEMENT, & EXPLORATION

Contents

• Carrying Capacity - Encumbrance rules determine how much a character's armor and equipment slow him or her down.
• Armor And Encumbrance For Other Base Speeds - The table below provides reduced speed figures for all base speeds from 20 feet to 100 feet (in 10-foot increments).
• Bigger And Smaller Creatures - The figures on Table: Carrying Capacity are for Medium bipedal creatures.
• Encumbrance By Armor - A character's armor defines his or her maximum Dexterity bonus to AC, armor check penalty, speed, and running speed.
• Lifting And Dragging - A character can lift as much as his or her maximum load over his or her head.
• Table: Carrying Capacity
• Table: Carrying Loads
• Tremendous Strength - For Strength scores not shown on Table: Carrying Capacity, find the Strength...
• Weight - If you want to determine whether your character's gear is heavy enough...
• Exploration
• Breaking And Entering - When attempting to break an object, you have two choices: smash it with a weapon or break it with sheer strength.
• Armor Class - Objects are easier to hit than creatures because they usually don't move,...
• Breaking Items - When a character tries to break something with sudden force rather than...
• Hardness - Each object has hardness-a number that represents how well it resists damage.
• Hit Points - An object's hit point total depends on what it is made of and how big it...
• Saving Throws - Nonmagical, unattended items never make saving throws.
• Smashing An Object - Smashing a weapon or shield with a slashing or bludgeoning weapon is accomplished by the sunder special attack.
• Table: Common Armor, Weapon, And Shield Hardness And Hit Points
• Table: Dcs To Break Or Burst Items
• Table: Object Hardness And Hit Points
• Table: Size And Armor Class Of Objects
• Table: Substance Hardness And Hit Points
• Vision And Light - Dwarves and half-orcs have darkvision, but everyone else needs light to see by.
• Table: Light Sources And Illumination
• Movement - There are three movement scales, as follows.
• Evasion And Pursuit - In round-by-round movement, simply counting off squares, it's impossible...
• Local Movement - Characters exploring an area use local movement, measured in feet per minute.
• Hustle - A character can hustle without a problem on the local scale.
• Walk - A character can walk without a problem on the local scale.
• Modes Of Movement - While moving at the different movement scales, creatures generally walk, hustle, or run.
• Moving Around In Squares - In general, when the characters aren't engaged in round-by-round combat,...
• Moving In Three Dimensions
• Tactical Aerial Movement - Once movement becomes three-dimensional and involves turning in midair...
• Overland Movement - Characters covering long distances cross-country use overland movement.
• Forced March - In a day of normal walking, a character walks for 8 hours.
• Hustle - A character can hustle for 1 hour without a problem.
• Mounted Movement - A mount bearing a rider can move at a hustle. The damage it takes when...
• Table: Hampered Movement
• Table: Mounts And Vehicles
• Table: Movement And Distance
• Table: Terrain And Overland Movement
• Terrain - The terrain through which a character travels affects how much distance...
• Walk - A character can walk 8 hours in a day of travel without a problem.
• Waterborne Movement - See Table: Mounts and Vehicles for speeds for water vehicles.
• Tactical Movement - Use tactical movement for combat. Characters generally don't walk during combat-they hustle or run.
• Hampered Movement - Difficult terrain, obstacles, or poor visibility can hamper movement.