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I have just started the king maker module and have a horse which can be either heavy or light. can any help me out with how much either a heavy or light riding horse can carry before it becomes a medium load or what the medium load max is. much thanks.
A heavy horse has a strength of 20 so the medium load starts at 134 Lbs, so pretty much anything other than a halfling/gnome riding it will automatically put it at that point. Its heavy load starts at 267 with a max load of 400 lbs.
A normal horse at str 16 has a medium load starting at 77 and heavy starting at 154. Max load of 200 lbs, so a normal horse will pretty much not be able to carry anything other than an unarmored (or VERY lightly armored) medium size creature.
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I have just started the king maker module and have a horse which can be either heavy or light. can any help me out with how much either a heavy or light riding horse can carry before it becomes a medium load or what the medium load max is. much thanks.
SRD says: "Quadrupeds can carry heavier loads than bipeds can. Multiply the values corresponding to the creature's Strength score from Table: Carrying Capacity by the appropriate modifier, as follows: Fine ×1/4, Diminutive ×1/2, Tiny ×3/4, Small ×1, Medium ×1-1/2, Large ×3, Huge ×6, Gargantuan ×12, Colossal ×24."
So horses (large) can carry 3 times what a similar strength human can.
16 str light horse can carry up to 3x76 pounds as a light load.
20 str heavy horse can carry up to 3x133 pounds as a light load.
Medium load is double light load.
Is that an African or a European horse?
When calculating the carrying capacity of a horse, shouldn't one use BOTH the quadruped multiplier (X3) and the size change multiplier (X2)? (Probably then the total multiplier would be X4).
No, that line about the size change modifier you mentioned is purely about bipedal creatures. For quadrupeds, you simply use the numbers as provided. The relevant line is "A larger bipedal creature can carry more weight depending on its size category" which provides the x2 modifier.
In truth, there already is a simple multiplier for quadrupeds' carrying capacity as compared to bipeds and that's 1.5. The math isn't quite right for creatures smaller than Medium, but they went for simpler numbers over complete accuracy.Instead of multiplying the capacity both with the modifier for large creatures (x2) and the modifier for quadrupeds (x1.5), they simple provide a multiplier for large quadrupeds (x3) and that's that. Math's the same, but it's easier to understand.
Also, it's been seven flippin' years, that's a powerful necro.