I really like this encumbrance variant. Encumbrance is one of those things that I always want to play with, but it's unwieldy enough that the group usually opts to drop it after a few sessions. With this rule variation, I feel it retains the intent of the encumbrance rules while also not causing a mini-revolt from the players. Highly recommend giving it a shot.

definitely a simple set of rules to follow if you want to enforce the carrying capacity rules. there is one issue i had with them however, that being the fact the heavy crossbow is impossible to use as written here. 5 arms slots for the crossbow itself, and 1 for 20 bolts. you can only equip up to 5 with this rule set, so the required 6 doesn't work.