Bolt Cutters -- Lighter Than Listed?

Tallor · 07-03-2016, 07:24 PM

I was looking at the wide selection of various tools in GURPS: High Tech. One of my favorite things about GURPS is how it has stats for "mundane but important tools"--picks and shovels, fences and filter masks, even Geiger counters and superglue!

But I think I found an incorrect measure!

On page 25, I noticed that the Light and Heavy Bolt Cutters were quite heavy to say the least. The light ones are 15 lbs, and the heavy ones 30 lbs! Perhaps ones of TL6 were this heavy, but not TL7+! I went online to see how heavy bolt cutters really were--so far, somewhat-big ones like 900mm x 12mm were only around 13 lbs, and massive 4-foot ones rank around 20 lbs max.

I feel like perhaps the editors forgot to add one of those "this item gets lighter at TL7 and TL8" sort of notes. :P

07-03-2016, 07:24 PM	#1
Tallor Join Date: May 2016	Bolt Cutters -- Lighter Than Listed? I was looking at the wide selection of various tools in *GURPS: High Tech. One of my favorite things about GURPS is how it has stats for "mundane but important tools"--picks and shovels, fences and filter masks, even Geiger counters and superglue! But I think I found an incorrect measure! On page 25*, I noticed that the Light and Heavy Bolt Cutters were quite heavy to say the least. The light ones are 15 lbs, and the heavy ones 30 lbs! Perhaps ones of TL6 were this heavy, but not TL7+! I went online to see how heavy bolt cutters really were--so far, somewhat-big ones like 900mm x 12mm were only around 13 lbs, and massive 4-foot ones rank around 20 lbs max. I feel like perhaps the editors forgot to add one of those "this item gets lighter at TL7 and TL8" sort of notes. :P