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[5E OGL] Altering Encumbrance thresholds

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Hi, I'm GM'ing a D&D 5E game onRoll20 for players who, like me, are still mostly new to D&D and Roll20.  They have already made characters using the 5E OGL and even made it to level 2 thus far. I like the idea of using the "encumbrance" mechanic.  However I want to customize the threshold multipliers at each encumbrance tier.  For instance, instead of 5xSTR it would be 10xSTR for the first encumbrance tier (-10 ft movement speed).  At default levels its very restrictive, would like to make it more generous without removing it entirely. As far as I can tell, the 5E OGL sheet lets you ignore or disable the Encumbrance rules, but there is no way to modify it.  We can handle it informally for now but it would be nice if we could still use the sheets to formally calculate it and enforce it. I'm fairly new to roll20 and I know there's an API and there's also very long confusing list of variables in the third character sheet tab, but I figured I'd ask here before I try any experiments that might corrupt the characters they've already spent time creating. Thanks!
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Scott C.
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I believe this would require you to make custom modifications to the sheet. These shouldn't be terribly complicated, but I can't think of another way to have it maintain the autocalculate feature.
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Silvyre
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Scott is correct. Check out the discussion here for a workaround.
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Thanks for the quick replies!   A negative weight item is a decent enough work around.  Any recommendations on a good resource for a "hello world" type example, or examples of similar customization?  I am a VBA/SQL programmer by trade so I should be able to pick it up if I look over some examples. And mayhaps the sheet dev(s) team considers exposing the coefficients ;)  I'd be happy to donate some bucks to such an endeavor!
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Scott C.
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For the API: The wiki is very useful:&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Introduction" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/API:Introduction</a>. And the script repository has some great examples of what has been done:&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-api-scripts" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-api-scripts</a>. For Character Sheets: The wiki&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Building_Character_Sheets" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Building_Character_Sheets</a> and the repository on github:&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets</a>