Life Over Head, Life Off Ground, Drag or Push

[Preston Poulter]

The Pathfinder Character Sheet includes these three strength related metrics, but I don't see in the rule book where they can be calculated/cross-indexed.

[Nethys]

PRPG wrote:

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Lifting and Dragging: A character can lift as much as his maximum load over his head. A character's maximum load is the highest amount of weight listed for a character's Strength in the heavy load column of Table: Carrying Capacity.

A character can lift as much as double his maximum load off the ground, but he or she can only stagger around with it. While overloaded in this way, the character loses any Dexterity bonus to AC and can move only 5 feet per round (as a full-round action).

A character can generally push or drag along the ground as much as five times his maximum load. Favorable conditions can double these numbers, and bad circumstances can reduce them by half or more.

This is from the Additional Rules - Carrying Capacity section.

Your God of Knowledge,
Nethys

[J.Marc Smith]

So. A character with a STR of 16 can drag or push 1,150 lbs.?

Doesn't this seem a bit much?

[CrystalSeas]

Table 7-4, page 171 in the Core Rulebook print edition

[blahpers]

J.Marc Smith wrote:

So. A character with a STR of 16 can drag or push 1,150 lbs.?

Doesn't this seem a bit much?

Not really, depending on your definition of favorable or unfavorable circumstances. I'm a wimp and I can push around 500-pound furniture pieces on carpet and almost twice that with furniture casters. Someone with several points higher Strength ought to be able to do more.