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How is weight of gold handled in pfs? What I mean is what do you guys do with all your gold from your scenarios because that weight adds up specially if you have a lot of gold saved up and I know I don't want to walk around with all that gold. I know you can change it to gems for less weight but thats still a lot of value your character is carrying. Is this come up on PFS yet as a problem or is there a solution for this already?
Gold doesn't weight anything. Don't worry about it.
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If you haven't accounted for the weight of 4000 coins, you don't have 4000 coins on you if it should come up in a dungeon somewhere.
You own that wealth in some form, somewhere in the world and can spend it between scenarios, or when you have unlimited access to possessions that you could have brought along and left in a safe city location.
Well no one keeps track of it, but the weight is something like...
The standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce (50 to the pound).
In society you have a home away from adventuring ideally and your not carrying a bajillion copper peices. It turns resource managing into more of a pain than it has to be.
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All PFS PCs are assumed to have some sort of home somewhere (even if it's just a bunk and footlocker at the Grand Lodge), and can leave unneeded money/gear/whatever safely there while adventuring. Also, consider this quote from the Guide:
At the completion of each encounter during a scenario, your GM will award each player a set amount of gold that reflects that player’s share of the potential loot (though not all encounters will have treasure rewards). This gold piece total can fluctuate depending on what you accomplished and how you accomplished it. We assume that you have enough bags, backpacks, or muscle to haul around the loot you find or, in the case of an urban scenario, immediate access to markets and bazaars where you can sell your goods.
To me, that says "Don't sweat the money weight".
But heed Nefreet's advice, especially for a Finesse dude. Those cloaks and belts and crap will add up.
I have this image of the poor 5 strenght halfling trying to carry his haul at the end of the campaign. 3000 gold is 60 pounds(at 50 each pound). Thats a heavier load than he can carry.
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I have this image of the poor 5 strenght halfling trying to carry his haul at the end of the campaign. 3000 gold is 60 pounds(at 50 each pound). Thats a heavier load than he can carry.
Not quite true: he can lift it, but he'll be staggering around; it'll take a full-round action to move 5ft and he's a juicy target for sneak attack. But he can lift it! ;)
Oh! Its not quiet twice his carrying capacity. Reminds me of the time the GM thought I said I was carrying my own heavy horse.
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My Gunslinger in PFS has a Strength of 12. When someone asked me recently why I didn't put those points into something useful, like DEX or CON, I pointed out that even with Mithral armor and a Handy Haversack I'm only a few pounds away from a medium load. Some of the Wondrous items I'm looking to pickup still weigh 1lb a piece. It adds up.
Mithral breastplate + Handy haversack isn't even half the weight of a medium load for a 12 strength character. Only 20 pounds, so a 7 strength character could carry it all. Mithral full plate would bring it up to about 3/4 of the way.
I usually keep track of all my items and how much I can bring before I go adventuring just in case the DM wonders how my 7 strength characters can carry a collapsible ladder. Horses are useful! Its rare a GM will ask me how I'm carrying something though.
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My items total to exactly 43 pounds, which is the most a Strength 12 character can carry before becoming moderately encumbered.
12.5 - Mithral Agile Breastplate
2.5 - Mithral Buckler
5.0 - Handy Haversack
1.0 - Silver Holy Symbol (Paladin/Gunslinger, after all)
9.0 - Musket (will eventually shell out the 4500gp to get one in Mithral for half weight)
0.5 - Mithral Bayonet
5.0 - Traveler's Outfit
0.5 - Belt Pouch
3.0 - Adventurer's Sash (I'm not gonna store all my ammo in a backpack)
1.0 - Powder Horn
1.0 - Cloak of Resistance
1.0 - Belt of Dexterity
1.0 - Headband of Charisma
I have like 50 pounds in my Haversack as well. I'm OCD when it comes to my inventory.
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3.0 - Adventurer's Sash (I'm not gonna store all my ammo in a backpack)
You might want to look into the bandolier for lightweight container goodness. Half a gold apiece, you can use two of them, and they have negligible (as in "—") weight.
I know this because I just finished building a 2nd level (GM credit baby) kitsune arcane duelist bard with 11 STR and an on-the-line light load. :/
I thought clothes didn't count towards encumbrance. I may have to review what my ninja is carrying around.
They didn't in 3.5e but they do in Pathfinder.
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You might want to look into the bandolier for lightweight container goodness. Half a gold apiece, you can use two of them, and they have negligible (as in "—") weight.
Ooo! Thank you. I love the picture of the Adventurers Sash, but the description of the bandolier seems like the same exact thing. Hooray for being able to carry two more pounds.
Handwave it. You can convert your cash into gems, and you have a bunk somewhere to stash your extra cash.