I use the carrying capacity because  you subtract the weight of the character, AND what ever the character may be carrying at the time of the jump.   

When carrying a person, one can not jump as far as when unencumbered.

Hey I do the same thing.   Comparing to a guy with all 9's or 10's in the stats.

John wrote on Jun 10^th, 2009 at 10:05pm:


While true, you'll find that someone carrying a body and jumping from a burning building will also be able to do amazing things from adrenaline (and that isn't factored in here either).

My rules are so much more grounded in real-life numbers (letting people only jump a couple of game inches, as opposed to the Crouching Tiger-type jumps that we sometimes see in comics) that I think it's simpler not to make it more complicated.  Often a super strong person will be the one carrying somebody, in which case it hardly matters (when you can lift 10,000 lbs, who cares that you're carrying a 200 lb. companion!)

But if there ever is a case where somebody is trying to carry close to what their max. is, the GM should probably not even allow them to jump at all (or require a S % save or whatever).