Um, what's up with the ever-increasing size of Aslans?

Has anyone even looked at the Encumbrance rules lately? STR + END + Athletics (STR) + Athletics (END) x 2 = You heavy load carrying capacity with a -2 penalty to all skill checks. Max human carrying potential is then (15 + 15 + 4 + 4) x 2 = 76kg or 167lbs. I am nowhere near the strongest human, but I can carry a load of half of that all day without issue. (Or could before several failed ageing rolls... lol) According to the Traveller rules, only the Strongest and Fittest humans are even capable of such a thing. So, a +1 STR for Aslan is meaningless. Ooooo! Aslan on average can lift a kilogram or two more than an average human. I doubt that would even allow for an increase in muscle mass.
Yeah, it seems a bit on the light side. I do a lot of backpacking with heavy packs, and 30-35 kilos is a very heavy but doable weight. When you've got a 30 kilo back on, you definitely can't do physical tasks very well. Climbing and stuff is possible, but definitely more difficult, and if you slip or loose balance it much hard to catch yourself, and more likely to get an injury. Though it has to be said, I've spent many months of my life walking over difficult terrain with those kinds of weights and never seriously hurt myself. It does affect your movement rate a lot. Human maximum to lift it, to carry a short distance, to get it on your back and to carry it all day, are very different things. For me, deadlifting 76 kilos is light, getting it on my back would be very hard - I'd need a setup or help, but carrying it I could do on the flat for hours probably, if the balance were right and I stepped carefully. And I am a fat old man, who is not particularly fit.
The calculations seem kind of crazy a the low end. Someone with 3 STR and 3 END has literally a 12 kilo max! It seems more like it would be the weight that some would begin to find it annoying to carry, rather than the max weight someone could possibly carry.
 
I've been stuck at a twenty five kilogramme rucksack for quite a while, and I'm not fond of actually humping that.

I think it's also health and safety maximum for carrying stuff.
 
I've been stuck at a twenty five kilogramme rucksack for quite a while, and I'm not fond of actually humping that.

I think it's also health and safety maximum for carrying stuff.
Why would you carry more, unless you need ridiculous amount of gear? Better to pare it down. Fishermen often carry a huge amount, but they'll walk for maybe a day and then fish. Met a guy who carried an inflatable dingy plus a full back 25km last summer; got good use out of it too. 1/5 of your body weight max is a rule of thumb one hears a lot for backpacking, though I see people with half that. I go out for 2 weeks at a time, with a dog - carrying dog food too - which means 30 kilos at the start, though it doesn't stay that way very long.
 
Use it or lose it.

However, I'm more comfortable with half that load, and offshoring everything else in other baggage, sometimes wheeled.

In theory, Strength/seven, and Endurance/seven, should come up with around twenty five kilogrammes as being somewhat carryable.
 
One factor that I thought about recently was that it matters how tall you think a typical human is. According to Vilani & Vargr (DGP), the average Vilani is 1.7m. So a typical Aslan would be rather tall compared to that, being like 2m.

That's like not particularly short by world standards. But it is short by American and most European standards. The average American is 1.8m IIRC. And quite a few are a bit more than than that. So the art looks weird when they are a foot taller than the humans around them rather than half a foot.

Of course, some of the art is simply ginormous even with that taken into consideration.
 
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