and you download the pdf here or the svg here or
git clone https://idiomdrottning.org/inventory
where you also can ogle a bunch of older versions.
The slot sizes
Forget about weights. Clear your mind. This system replaces that with
item slots of four different sizes. Tiny, small, medium, and big.
Tiny for things like coins and gems
Small for things like flasks
Medium for things like weapons or books
Big for things like tents and bedrolls
How to use this
Just fill in your gear. You can only use slots whose number isn’t
higher than your strength score.
Double your strength score if you are willing to be encumbered
(–10′ speed).
Armor is counted separately, subtract that. So strength 12 with
ring mail can use circles four or lower unencumbered, or sixteen or
lower encumbered.
You can also go heavily encumbered (triple str; minus twenty speed
and disad on everything physical).
Hands: pulling out a sword or a lantern doesn’t change how
encumbring it is or how much you can carry, so just say what you
have in your hands, you don’t have to erase or move those items
from their proper places on the sheet.
Same goes for dropping a backpack temporarily. You can say you drop
it and say you pick it back up later without having to erase or
rewrite anything.
That’s it!
In pouches & sacks: 50 tiny ↔ 1 small, 250 tiny ↔ 1 medium, 450 tiny ↔
1 big. Outside of “pouch space”, there’s no easy way to story tiny
items; if one coin per slot sounds cruel well then I’m cruel♥ It’s
hard to find your keys in a bag full of food and books, as you know!
Here is a sack.pdf for you, or the svg version, and a filled in example.
