I am so glad everyone could resist the urge to make off topic jokes following from the poor subject line. It really makes my day when people show a little self-restraint in a thread meant for serious discussion.
Joke threads such as
this one about a guy apparently possessing a
gravitational field; or
this one about a guy who apparently
smells bad; are the perfect kind of place for letting loose.
Certainly, bad things happen to innocent bystanders when the ship hits the span, or however that saying goes.
I was apparently misunderstood in that I was not arguing against Dakkru's Curse as indeed there are other ways to be come over-encumbered (that is a better term than overweight ... yes?) a weakness spell or just picking up too much. It just seemed to me that if you are forced into a sitting position the weight is probably on the ground and you are not carrying it anymore. You do not expend any energy sitting on or beside it, therefor you ought to be able to recover stamina. OF course there is always the possibility the weight falls on top of you and not under you, so who is to say what should happen. I do think it could stand some embellishment.