From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Pepe Barbe)
Subject:	Weight lifting
Date:	Sat Mar 30 20:15:01 2002

Hello,

Somewere in the middle of a session one of my players, whose PC is a troll,
wanted to do something very unusual: to turn over a Ares Roadmaster
(According to R3, a car of the type would weight at least 2 tons, and the
average is 4). So we checked the rules for lifting stuff in SRComp3, but
they didn't seem to really work very well. The troll in question has 10
points of strenght; according to the rules he can lift 250 kg. If he wanted
to lift more he has to divide the weight to be lifted by ten to get a
target number for a Strenght test; for each success he can lift 10% more.

First of all the rules aren't very clear. 10% more of the intended weight?
10% of his base weight?

I've been following the rules that appear on TSS, about the revised weights
of the different metahuman races, wich I personally like a lot and find
more plausible. My PCs troll, according to the rules, weights around 450
kgs. The base weight he is allowed to lift is 250 kgs. What if he wanted to
lift his own weight? He would have to succeed in a Strenght(45) Test and
have 8 successes. I think these rules work pretty akwardly.

Any one ever analyzed this kind of situation? Do you have a solution? One
solution I came with, for determining the weight that can be lifted can be:
Substract weight to be lifted minus base weight (Strength*25 kg.). Divide
the result by fifty and that would be the target number for your strenght
test. If you succeed you can lift that weight. Now, this is not something I
have thought about very deeply, I came with this solution during the gaming
session. I was wondering what do you think of it? Do you find any problems
in it? Do you have a better solution?

Pepe