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[Humabout]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Umm thanks but your giving me credit I don't deserve.
I have commented on various threads and made some suggestions but I don't recall anything I did on belt armor before this thread. And my Sealed suggestion was barely anything not worth a credit.
I have suggested a version of IT:DR to increase survivability and a few other IT variations for ships bought with points.

I stand corrected. I thought Id seen you do this before. Guess I confused your comments. Sorry, Ryujin!

[The_Ryujin]

Originally Posted by Humabout

I stand corrected. I thought Id seen you do this before. Guess I confused your comments. Sorry, Ryujin!

No problem man, there are no new things under this sun. Everything that has happened before will happen again heh. So it stands to reason that someone has thought of this idea before I did heh.

[Kalzazz]

Well, how small of crew members do we need if we want a SM 0 Death Star? Or at least a SM 0 Cool Warship of some stripe

And I am very serious, as I play in a campaign where 'SM 0 alien ship and its teensy tiny crew' is a perfectly acceptable PC concept, so if it works out mechanically I'd totally give it a whirl (SM 0 is pretty vital, as if your not SM 0 you don't fit through doors, and fitting through doors is important)

I have no idea if it works out mechanically I admit

[Phantasm]

A person of SM -4 for a one-hamster SM 0 ball of mass destruction, I think, as that would scale to an SM +4 craft for a single SM +0 critter.

For a proper Death Star, you'd need SM -23 critters. Not really sure how small that is, but you're looking at not-Imskians-really.

[The_Ryujin]

Originally Posted by Kalzazz

Well, how small of crew members do we need if we want a SM 0 Death Star? Or at least a SM 0 Cool Warship of some stripe

And I am very serious, as I play in a campaign where 'SM 0 alien ship and its teensy tiny crew' is a perfectly acceptable PC concept, so if it works out mechanically I'd totally give it a whirl (SM 0 is pretty vital, as if your not SM 0 you don't fit through doors, and fitting through doors is important)

I have no idea if it works out mechanically I admit

Well if you're dead set on a hamsters, it's going to be hard to pull off using Spaceships since SM is based on mass. Now if you go off of Basic Set then a ship the size of a small coast guard cutter would be about man sized if shrunk down to rodent size heh. It would weight about 1.7 tons and have around ST/HP 60.

If we go off of mass though it's going to be SM+2.5 at lest.

[Kalzazz]

Ah, I thought SM was about length, not mass. I'm really more interested in length/width etc than mass since that determines can you fit through a doorway . . . mass is much less important if the ship can fly under its own power


Maybe small dwarf hamsters could crew it? A Roborovski hamster is 2in long vs nearly 2yds for a human (also dwarves are often good with technology, so it stands to reason dwarf hamsters would excel at crewing spacecraft)

[The_Ryujin]

Originally Posted by Kalzazz

Ah, I thought SM was about length, not mass. I'm really more interested in length/width etc than mass since that determines can you fit through a doorway . . . mass is much less important if the ship can fly under its own power


Maybe small dwarf hamsters could crew it? A Roborovski hamster is 2in long vs nearly 2yds for a human (also dwarves are often good with technology, so it stands to reason dwarf hamsters would excel at crewing spacecraft)

In Spaceships SM is tied to mass since its an abstract system (at lest on the surface but that was because keeping it a simple system was part of the mandate). But since you've said that you're making it a point build ship then yeah, use length. I'd only use the book to figure how to model its performance stats.

Now if it's going to fly around with normal people I'd give it some form of contra-gravity and maybe a reactionless drive to prevent your ship from stating fires on accident heh.

[Kalzazz]

Huh? Where did I say I was making a point build ship? If I gave that impression I typed very wrongly

What I want to do is with points stat up Captain Dwarf Hamster, including sufficient levels of multimillionaire to buy the Hamster Ball from ship mart, but to stat the Hamster Ball as straight up gear . . . . since well, the idea of 'actually fits in dungeons' spacecraft is awesome

Admittedly that may be a horrible idea, but it's the idea I think sounds super awesome and made me want to post in this thread

[The_Ryujin]

Originally Posted by Kalzazz

Huh? Where did I say I was making a point build ship? If I gave that impression I typed very wrongly

What I want to do is with points stat up Captain Dwarf Hamster, including sufficient levels of multimillionaire to buy the Hamster Ball from ship mart, but to stat the Hamster Ball as straight up gear . . . . since well, the idea of 'actually fits in dungeons' spacecraft is awesome

Admittedly that may be a horrible idea, but it's the idea I think sounds super awesome and made me want to post in this thread

Oh, ok. Gotcha.

It is definitely a unique concept heh. In that case, see if you're GM is ok with you using the ships length for SM rather then its mass if building it with Spaceships (and if it's a sphere don't forget to add +2 to it's SM).

[The_Ryujin]

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