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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Except that the staff will be penalized for working with higher TL equipment. How many people with skill 25 are you going to be able to find to run your production lines?
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How would that work if their building superscience tech at their tech level? A TL8 engineer dealing with TL8^ equipment?
As Gadgeteering is a perennial topic, I'll add these links for the readers' edification:
Gadgeteer: List of Fictional Gadgeteers
Gadgeteer: List of Real-life Historical Gadgeteers
And my thoughts on what RAW Gadgeteering lacks and what a Power Ups book on inventing and gadgets could focus on:
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Originally Posted by Daigoro
I'd like to see- - the Metatronic Generators rules, perhaps polished up a little, "officialised", and a bit more generic
- covering all SMs: lumping "laser pistol" and "mega big starship" into the Advanced category doesn't really work
- skill/field specialisation: Tony Stark shouldn't be able to Gadgeteer biotech just because he drops a point into Bioengineering
- rules for components: is Iron Man's suit one Gadget, or is it built by researching 6 different sub-systems?
- Gadgets as Allies, and when and how to do that
- Magic Items, Enchantments, runes, flying castles, alchemy, etc, done as variations of Gadgeteering. That is, genericise Gadgeteering from just a Weird Science skill to cover crafting in other genres
- a bunch of alternative Gadget Quirk tables for different flavours of Gadgeteering
- Social Gadgeteering in IW saw a bit of use in our Spacefaring Fantasy game, more stuff like that
- other sundry Gadgeteering stuff that I believe is in Action, MH and Mars Attacks, in one place
- how to avoid or cope with the Netrunner problem equivalent with Gadgeteers, i.e. Gadgeteering can force a lot of downtime on the team
- and importantly, how to GM a Gadgeteer, especially of a tech savvy player, so he doesn't just run rings around game balance or get a backdoor to Wealth
- not exactly Gadgeteering, but a bit about Cybernetics. For example, when should an inbuilt smart phone count as an Accessory Perk instead of trying to write it up as a list of Advantages
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