01-24-2020, 08:53 PM | #91 | |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
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01-24-2020, 09:21 PM | #92 | |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
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I'm trying to devise an image for a RPG book cover that will wordlessly evoke the covers of thriller novels while simultaneously suggesting a sci-fi setting where backwater planets have workshop hybrids of ultra-tech imports and backyard welding. The image doesn't need to withstand the closest scrutiny. A laser sight on a caplock pistol is a striking image that conveys the idea. If I replace the caplock with a revolver or a self-loader most readers won't get it, since a revolver is not obviously archaic or obsolete. If I replace the caplock with a TL9 RPG-firing cone pistol that is obsolete in the TL10 setting no reader will get it. On the other hand this is a public forum and you are free to discuss any aspect you wish of anything that comes up the thread.
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01-25-2020, 12:10 PM | #93 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
I'm gonna be honest and say that putting an awesome scope that was looted more or less intact from a military depot on a crossbow or black powder gun would fit pretty well in an After the End setting... With no need for crazy import shenanigans.
After the End is already a mix and match of reasonably widespread TL 4 tech augmented by whatever prewar (A lot of AtE stories happen after a nuclear war, and the Fallout series made "prewar" a neat little term...) relic one can scrounge up... A tactical flintlock would be right at home there... Just saying I am stealing any ideas that may come up here about a good scope to put on a flintlock or similar crazy ideas for the AtE game I have planned... Last edited by WaterAndWindSpirit; 01-25-2020 at 12:18 PM. |
01-25-2020, 01:25 PM | #94 | |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
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So that paticular anachronistic image might not be recognized as such.
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01-25-2020, 03:07 PM | #95 | |
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01-25-2020, 03:16 PM | #96 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
It is common for there to be part of hunting season reserved especially for "primitive" weapons.
So we americans sometimes have oddities like "blackpowder" rifles that are electrically fired and mounted with multi-thousand dollar rangefinding scopes. |
01-25-2020, 04:09 PM | #97 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
Humans do weird things when constrained and incentivised.
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