Reposted Question

I posted this in the Character Sheet forum yesterday, but that may have been the wrong venue. It received 30+ reviews but 0 repiles. I am new to roll20 but not D&D. This will be my first time DM'ing, using roll20 completely without my players using dndbeyond character sheets (I may want to change that depending on the replies here). I started a Master's Vault campaign. In it, the characters come prerolled for race, gender, class, etc. Their starting equipment is already listed, but the weight of items is not automatically calculated, and I know characters with chainmail and shields do not have a total weight carried of .02-.03 lbs. So I figured the character sheets aren't automatically adding item weight. In my last campaign, the DM was overly generous & forgiving (not knocking him), but this time I intend to keep track of weight & encumbrance as the rules of physics would apply in real life. This is most likely a noob question. I already searched the forums for a total of 20-30 minutes trying to find if this issue was already answered to no avail. I don't know if it is due to a bug, but I cannot get the character sheets to auto-calculate weight after digging through them for an hour. Please help me out since I have scheduled the first session to be this Wed., Oct. 30. Any quick replies would be much appreciated!

The Master's Vault was created before drag/drop from the compendium. The weight shown will be based on the amount of coinage the individual characters are holding. To add the weight in you could either do it manually or drag/drop each item from the compendium to create duplicates and then get rid of the weightless ones.

I was afraid I would have to manually do it, but dragging and dropping should work, thank you!

No problem, at least there aren't too many sheets to do it on and once your players advance to fresh, empty, sheets they'll benefit from the drag/drop by default :) Consider it practice and it won't seem so tedious lol. I hope the session goes well, I've always tried to follow encumbrance rules but without serious micromanagement it is hard to maintain... I love the idea of a super real and gritty game where it simply isn't realistic to carry several weapons, a pack full of heavy equipment, a tent and a 10' pole and STILL go spelunking!

The drag and drop definitely worked. A few things weren't listed so I had to enter weight manually or decide what a thing weighed. Thanks again!' I have another question: I was looking through the 5e DM and Player manual pdf's, and I could not find how to calculate how much a character can carry before encumbrance. Do you know what section it is in, or the equation?

The forums are specifically for Roll20 related stuff so this skirts the territory of being off topic... however, before it gets flagged as such, here you go  (it's in the SRD so I can post it here, should be under the Strength section in the hardcopies though): Lifting and Carrying Your Strength score determines the amount of weight you can bear. The following terms define what you can lift or carry. Carrying Capacity.  Your carrying capacity is your Strength score multiplied by 15. This is the weight (in pounds) that you can carry, which is high enough that most characters don't usually have to worry about it. Push, Drag, or Lift.  You can push, drag, or lift a weight in pounds up to twice your carrying capacity (or 30 times your Strength score). While pushing or dragging weight in excess of your carrying capacity, your speed drops to 5 feet. Size and Strength.  Larger creatures can bear more weight, whereas Tiny creatures can carry less. For each size category above Medium, double the creature's carrying capacity and the amount it can push, drag, or lift. For a Tiny creature, halve these weights. Variant: Encumbrance The rules for lifting and carrying are intentionally simple. Here is a variant if you are looking for more detailed rules for determining how a character is hindered by the weight of equipment. When you use this variant, ignore the Strength column of the Armor table. If you carry weight in excess of 5 times your Strength score, you are  encumbered , which means your speed drops by 10 feet. If you carry weight in excess of 10 times your Strength score, up to your maximum carrying capacity, you are instead  heavily encumbered , which means your speed drops by 20 feet and you have disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.