Yeah, I like Encumbrance mechanics, sue me
Depends what they are, I suppose. I thought the TES "arbitrary unit of encumbrance" worked well enough except that people kept insisting it was measured in pounds, and then extrapolating that to insist that it's entirely reasonable that a typical sword weighs 30 lbs. There was no convincing them: the fact that it would be not only physically impossible to wield but would also be physically impossible to construct, and "I have some right here" that weigh 2-2½lbs meant nothing because They Knew™. It might have helped if they'd given the Arbitrary Unit of Encumbrance an actual name, such as the
bastard; i.e. the aforementioned Daedric sword is 30 bastard's worth of inconvenience to lug about, not because it weighs 30 lbs but because it's covered in nasty pointy bits and tries to eat your soul.
But I digress. What doesn't work so well is giving
everything a weight: I don't want coins to weigh me down, I don't even want arrows to weigh me down. And especially not if I have nowhere to keep all my groovy shit. Hmm, I guess banks may be relevant to this topic, though storage chests are perhaps a discussion for elsewhere.
