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11-20-2015, 10:46 AM | #1 |
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Pyramid #3/85: Cutting Edge
Though the tried-and-true has its place, time stops for no one – least of all the heroes of adventure stories! When you take on new challenges day in and day out, you would be wise to keep up to date. Watch the news. Stay on top of trends. Get the latest gear. Look to the future.Best preparations Your opponents will . . . that's why you get the big bucks. Think of Pyramid #3/85: Cutting Edge as the latest issue of your modern-day or futuristic character's favorite trade journal. It bring you the gear and training that are going to matter 20 minutes into the future, and offers a peek at why you'll need those things. Here are a few sound bites:
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11-20-2015, 02:23 PM | #2 |
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Two articles in and this issue is already worth its cost for me... let's keep reading!
Training for the Tech is a very welcome expansion to Tactical Shooting/Gun Fu — though I wish it had come out before I'd just finished this team of TL9 paramilitary security officers... oh well, rewrite time! Remixing the Rocker is the sort of well done article GURPS and Pyramid have always been lauded for, and with good reason! Covering a wide variety of areas under a convergence of two topics near and dear to my heart (music and cyberpunk), this is going to see much use fleshing out the scenes of my cyberpunk setting. This issue's Eidetic Memory is another one of those articles that came just in time for me to completely rewrite all the work I'd done on my own system for cutting-edge armour design before it actually saw use in game. The specifics of the materials included give me high hopes that this might be offering a glimpse at what VDS will be like, and wonder how well my own extrapolation of higher-TL materials will match up. Free Falling will be useful both for the space game I'm running and for the supers game I'm playing in where one of the players is playing a gravity controller who likes to put the battlefield into microgravity. I'm glad that it finally offers a second source confirming that yes, free-fall acrobatics is Astrobatics and not Aerobatics, as nothing else that I could find referred to that (optional) rule in Space. This month's Random Thought Table is another one near and dear to my heart — and vital to my current cyberpunk game, set in the 2060s. I still have trouble getting the players to comprehend the sheer ubiquity of the Internet and what it can do in the setting. Maybe making them read this will help. The vignette from Mr. Riggsby is short, sweet, and makes me want to read more about Car Wars. I'd love to see more like this in Pyramid. The Odds and Ends touches on a subject I've already hashed over many a time in several settings — even using the specific example of lost Doctor Who episodes that I've used before. I am positively delighted to see more cover art from Brandon, whose work I've been shilling on Facebook and elsewhere. And, finally, The Perky L33t (which is a godawful title — I applaud whoever that was the fault of) — offers some great upgrades for the hackers in my cyberpunk game. A couple of them I might even allow without Quick Gadgeteer. |
11-20-2015, 04:39 PM | #3 |
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My better half. She's evil. Real evil. >_>
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11-21-2015, 04:31 AM | #4 | |
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Free fall, by definition, lacks gravity, so you end up needing to know how to spin or steady your body without the assistance gravity. I can't think of any RL correlations or examples of this, though. Astrobatics is a skill that probably hasn't quite been developed by anyone yet.
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11-21-2015, 05:00 AM | #5 |
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11-21-2015, 10:55 AM | #6 |
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They aren't any more likely to have Astrobatucs than any random person is to have Acrobatics here on Earth. What astronauts who have spent six months in the ISS have is Free Fall at at least 12, probably more.
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11-21-2015, 11:36 AM | #7 | |
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And I think they're a little more likely to have taken an interest in an activity that they're among the very few people ever to have a chance at, and that they'll only be able to do for a small fraction of their lives, than a completely random person is to go for acrobatics.
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I know of one Astronaut who definitely did have Acrobatics though I'm blanking on the name. He was on one of the Skylab crews and had been a competitive gymnast in college. A h heck let's Google for him. Ah, Alan Bean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sr6aVzW9M I can't promise that link is good. My PC and Youtube are feuding with each other for some inexplicable reason and I can't watch it. However the search terms of Astronaut Gymnastics Skylab produces many links on Google.
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11-20-2015, 04:45 PM | #9 | |
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(Now where did I put those In Nomine article notes, again? Probably on a different computer...)
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11-22-2015, 01:10 AM | #10 |
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So Cutting-Edge Armour design states in the description for Basic Ceramic that you could use those stats for transparent quartz — what would you use for transparent corundum? Improved Ceramic? I'm looking for more effective transparent faceplates than the Laminated Polycarbonate.
Also, the table lacks the 'T' note for Basic Ceramic — is that a deliberate omission? |
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