For my new "Star Wars: Saga Edition" campaign, I made a quick note in my document of house rules that "encumbrance will be used normally". Indeed, I'd made this almost trivially easy to handle, via the use of a very clever PDF form that automatically calculates most of the required values. Huzzah!
Unfortunately, what I had neglected to consider is that, in SWSE, the encumbrance rules are generous to the point of being pointless. Of my three characters, the one with the lowest carrying capacity still has a capacity of 63kg, while the character with the heaviest load is carrying 16.5kg. And neither of these is particularly untypical values - characters just don't tend to carry a lot of gear in Star Wars.
In fact, it might be worth noting that the character with the lowest carrying capacity that you can reasonably create in the system is a Small character with a Strength score of 6. Such a character would be able to carry 13.5kg without penalty. The equivalent Medium character could carry 18kg, while a Small character with Strength 8 could carry 24kg - both would thus be able to handle the biggest load amongst my three PCs.
So... um, yeah. I think it's still worth keeping track of things like the number of grenades they're carrying, and of course any special gear they make or acquire during the campaign. But when it comes to mundane gear, I think I'll just not bother!
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