10-30-2016, 08:35 PM | #11 |
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Re: GURPS non-Phobia technophobia?
Then you'd have to pay for two separate skills. But that isn't what you implied in the previous post.
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10-31-2016, 02:09 AM | #12 |
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Re: GURPS non-Phobia technophobia?
I would rephrase as 'if you know how to do something as taught at TL8 and TL5' you have 2 skills. There are TL8 skills that routinely include the use of gear that first appear at a lower TL, you don't get a penalty when a specific task use those. Technically, gear belong to all the TL it is commonly in use in, so your version is correct but may be misunderstood, imho.
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10-31-2016, 05:13 AM | #13 | |
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10-31-2016, 06:17 AM | #14 |
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10-31-2016, 07:51 AM | #15 |
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Re: GURPS non-Phobia technophobia?
For certain Action-y games where the tech level of skills really mattered, i generalised that into what is essentially a Wildcard Technique, but increased in cost to [5/level] for the sheer versatility of it (as well as pentaphilia). Each level of it lets you ignore all TL penalties for one specific TL that is equal to or less than your personal TL (that is, the campaign TL as modified by your level of High or Low TL). That hit just the right price point that I had players wanting to take it as a flavour trait even in games where it wasn't super-important (one example being a secret-agent-y sort who was both a dedicated medieval reenactor and broadly cross-trained in top-secret classified hush-hush ultra-tech goodies straight out of Q's lab: High TL 1 [5], Anachronistic Training (TL 9) [5], and Anachronistic Training (TL 3) [5]).
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10-31-2016, 07:56 AM | #16 |
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10-31-2016, 08:48 AM | #17 |
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Re: GURPS non-Phobia technophobia?
I'd disagree, actually. Subject selection, composition, color temperature, lighting, shutter speed/exposure/aperture, white balance and uses of colors of lighting, filters, lenses, field of view and focal length... none of that has changed a bit. The only major difference in photography from TL7 has been the actual recording of the image (film versus digital) inside the otherwise largely identical camera that selects, modifies, and forms that image on the image plane. But loading a film canister or not isn't all there is to photography.
Digital image processing (Photoshop, etc) is a separate skill, as you can use that on scanned film images just as well as direct digital ones. |
10-31-2016, 09:00 AM | #18 | |
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And by raw, this is also part of the skill ! The art part, yes, it remain roughly the same, although there are also notable changes. Last edited by Celjabba; 10-31-2016 at 10:08 AM. |
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10-31-2016, 09:17 AM | #19 |
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Re: GURPS non-Phobia technophobia?
I'd put it as a major Vow [-10]. Depends on what technology they decline working with - the morons* from Star Trek: Insurrection supposedly rejected all technology, but had a fully functional irrigation system, wheelbarrows, a forge, etc.
* I really dislike that movie
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10-31-2016, 10:23 AM | #20 | |
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Communities that reject some arbitrary level of technology in order to live in an argraian society exist in the real world. Saying they reject "technology" isn't uncommon, even if isn't technically true. |
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