10-27-2015, 05:22 PM | #11 |
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Re: [GURPS Lite] TL8 Time Travelers Go to WW2
Rules As Written say to apply a flat -1 per TL difference for DX based TL skills. I could see this for speed-loading, especially when there's an actual clip instead of a magazine. My GM-sense says I should probably apply this as a familiarity penalty unless the ammunition is drastically different (paper charges, black powder, etc).
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10-27-2015, 06:20 PM | #12 | |
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Re: [GURPS Lite] TL8 Time Travelers Go to WW2
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The agency idea is right though: give the players fair warning before the game that they might want to have history buffs among them.
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10-27-2015, 06:52 PM | #13 | |
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On the other hand you can indulge in a few cheap jokes like at the quality of the coffee. In fact that might be quite amusing. You can even make one of your time traveling PCs a barista for comic relief. Have a Service dance party sometime. Even play some 40's hits on YouTube for that. It is a cliche but a good one and gets the atmosphere going. And you can throw in one or two subversions to mix things up. Speaking of that there are a couple good books for cocktail recipes that you can mine for period chrome of the kind. Oh and don't forget the Glamorous Wartime Singer.
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10-27-2015, 07:54 PM | #14 | |
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Hence the problem of such time travelers is knowing some of the nuances of various partisan groups, who to trust and not to trust. Not giving too much away etc. |
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10-27-2015, 09:27 PM | #15 | |
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10-27-2015, 11:04 PM | #16 |
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Re: [GURPS Lite] TL8 Time Travelers Go to WW2
Because back then Americans were fairly simple and spartan in their coffee tastes. It was the age of the Joe, and not of the stuff-with-Italian-names. Moderns might find the coffee of the time bad. Or vice-versa for that matter if you want to bring one of them forward and have him taste our coffee.
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10-27-2015, 11:28 PM | #17 | |
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10-27-2015, 11:28 PM | #18 | |
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I drink simple, unflavored, unfutzed up coffee and it's good (adding only some milk or cream). Now if you mean they used percolators and burned the heck out the coffee, yes. Those heathens must be drug kicking and screaming into the 20 century of coffee brewing... |
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10-27-2015, 11:33 PM | #19 |
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Re: [GURPS Lite] TL8 Time Travelers Go to WW2
If they are anywhere except with the American Forces the coffee is way too likely this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_substitute
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10-27-2015, 11:44 PM | #20 |
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Re: [GURPS Lite] TL8 Time Travelers Go to WW2
So basically if I'm time traveling I should take a Jerrycan of Coffeemate with me?
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