[VirgilCaine]

Let's say you have a hide from say, a deer or something that size. Scrape the fur off of it and stretch it and dry it.

How heavy is it?

['Card]

*ponders*

I've honestly never weighed one, but they feel fairly solid. I'd be willing to guess that they weigh about the same, square foot per square foot, as a decent-quality quilt. Not those massive "Winter of '42" quilts your grandmother from Minnesota used to make, but a good standard quilt.

I don't know if that helped or not - but probably not. :rolleyes:

[VirgilCaine]

That does help, some.
My mom makes quilts, I can ask her.

[auschip]

I have a hair on whitetail hide, I will weigh it when I get home, but I would guess no more then two pounds.

[Vern Humphrey]

Leather is graded in ounces to the square foot. A heavy piece of leather would run about 6 ounces or more -- and cowhide is much heavier than buckskin. A tanned buckskin about 30" and 40" long (and that would be a big deer) would be 8.3 square feet and would weigh about 3.3 pounds -- if it weighed as much as heavy beef "shoulders." (And it wouldn't)

[VirgilCaine]

Thanks! So, in no way would it weighn anything close to 10 lbs. Cool.

[Warren]

Perhaps you are micro-managing your game just a bit?

[RyanM]

Everything in D&D weighs the wrong amount, protects the wrong amount, and is just plain wrong. Mostly for gameplay balance.

[Warren]

All the more reason not to get weighed down by the details.

We came to prefer a more hero oriented cinematic game after years of worrying and arguing over useless minutia.

the story is the thing not an accurate accounting of weights and movements.


Though when I am reading a book I like a lot of detail. Go figure.

[Dr.Rob]

The people who wrote the 'encumbrance' rules never carried anything but a big mac to the dealer's room.

Then again, the hair on the hide makes a difference. I can a assure you a wet elk hide that hasn't ben trimmed and cured is a LOAD. Lugging it, and a rifle, survival gear, water, flashlight etc is a pain.

Dry hides... I've worn buckskins all day with no more concern than wearing jeans and a flannel shirt... a buffalo cloak is certainly heavy, but can fully conceal a 'blanket gun' (That's a 72 cal smooth bore sawed-off made from a trade musket) and really no more cumbersome than a 'horse blanket' style military overcoat draped over the shoulders.

There is a reason soldiers cook in their steel helmets... they didn't want to carry the extra weight of a pot.

[VirgilCaine]

I was just wondering for the purpose of the Explosive Runes spell, that was all. I didn't think that a hide would weigh much. Just curiosity.

"Everything in D&D weighs the wrong amount, protects the wrong amount, and is just plain wrong. Mostly for gameplay balance."

It doesn't weigh the wrong amount, there's a note in the 1st edition DMG about how the weight and relative bulkiness of an item is also included in the "weight figure." This note was apparently overlooked in later editions. 10' poles don't weigh eight pounds.

Interesting to see D&Ders here. Well, I know Cosmoline plays Call of Cthulhu...