# Encumbrance

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [June 2, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570 "2013-06-02T20:26:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Blaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/1 "2013-06-02T20:26:28Z")

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The bonus/malus for swimming is inverted, higher encumbrance makes it easier to swim and lower encumbrance makes it harder to swim.

Also, it’s impossible for hand encumbrance to be below 0. Any negative encumbrance is negated by an equivalent amount of positive encumbrance that just magically appears.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/2 "2013-06-02T21:33:06Z")

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That’s new: back in 02Feb I had to strip when practicing my swimming, even when I grew a Tail Fin.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/3 "2013-06-03T00:59:50Z")

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Cloth and such floats so…

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**Author:** ![Ferodaktyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ferodaktyl/32/56_2.png) [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/4 "2013-06-03T03:19:33Z")

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> [@gtaguy](#):
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> Cloth and such floats so…

so if i’m dressed enough i could fly :))))

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/5 "2013-06-03T03:32:54Z")

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> [@Ferodaktyl](#):
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> [quote=“gtaguy, post:3, topic:1570”]Cloth and such floats so…

so if i’m dressed enough i could fly :))))[/quote]

Encumbrance as a 2-bit unsigned integer? when you get above 128 encumbrance, it wraps around! [Not really.]

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/6 "2013-06-03T22:19:10Z")

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> [@Blaze](#):
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> Also, it’s impossible for hand encumbrance to be below 0. Any negative encumbrance is negated by an equivalent amount of positive encumbrance that just magically appears.

I was kind of wondering about this myself, since I always wear glove liners.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/encumbrance/1570/7 "2013-06-04T03:34:20Z")

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> [@Ferodaktyl](#):
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> [quote=“gtaguy, post:3, topic:1570”]Cloth and such floats so…

so if i’m dressed enough i could fly :))))[/quote]

Nope, you die of heat stroke.