Burden

A player's burden is a measure of how much difficulty they are having carrying things and moving around due to the encumberance of their inventory.

Burden calculation

Your burden is calculated as follows:

• Add up the weight of all items in your possession, in all your containers.
  • Worn items count as half their weight.
  • Items held in one hand count as twice their weight.
  • Items held in two hands count as 1.5x their weight.
• Determine your maximum carrying capacity as:

Maximum carrying capacity (lb) = 1.89 * (20 + strength + strength2/5)

• Divide the first by the second to get your burden level.

Effects of burden

Burden has the following effects:

Dexterity penalties

• 50-74% burden results in a -1 dex penalty.
• 74-99% burden results in a -2 dex penalty.
• 100% burden results in a -3 dex penalty.

Picking up and dropping things

• You cannot pick things up if they would cause you to go over 100% burden.
• If your burden changes such that it exceeds 100% (for example, due to a loss of strength), then you will automatically drop items to reduce it below 100% again.

Combat efficiency

• Burden negatively affects one's 'to-hit' chance with all weapons.
• If fighting unarmed, then there is an additional 'to-hit' penalty from burden.
• Burden negatively affects one's ability to successfully parry or dodge an incoming attack.
• An additional penalty to dodging occurs if your burden is over twice your dexterity stat.
• Burden increases the action point cost of dodging.

Buoyancy

The more burden a player has, the more trouble they will have staying afloat while swimming. This can be counteracted somewhat by effects that increase a player's buoyancy, such as being a witch or wearing an aquamarine magick crystal or swim ring.

See also

• Inventory
• Gryntard's Feathery Reliever