07-29-2010, 03:43 PM | #11 |
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Re: GURPS Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality
Interesting indeed!
I'll be looking into this. |
07-29-2010, 03:44 PM | #12 |
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Re: GURPS Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality
What about the Alchemy rules? Are they a significant expansion of Alchemy as technology?
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07-29-2010, 03:46 PM | #13 |
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Re: GURPS Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality
I have but one question:
Weapon Master(Zweihander) plus Two-Handed Parries from Martial Arts, should the multiple parry progression go; a) 0, 0 , -1, -1, etc. b) 0, -1, -1, etc. or c) something else. |
07-29-2010, 03:48 PM | #14 |
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For $8, it's likely worth it to you. It's got TL 4^ and TL4+x stuff. And as Ulzgoroth points out, there's earlier stuff that can be developed into something more advanced at a higher TL. If the Leonardo Battery was good at TL 4+1, imagine what it can do at 4+2.
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07-29-2010, 03:50 PM | #15 | |
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There's 3 elixers, a hierarchy for transmutation of metals, kit and reagents, and the mechanism for using them. If your alchemy isn't medieval-looking, or is industrialized, you'd at least have to do some work on it.
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07-29-2010, 03:52 PM | #16 |
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07-29-2010, 03:53 PM | #17 |
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Not really, it spends a page and a half talking about a new speciality Alchemy(Mundane) that works like historical alchemy. Alchemy as technology would be covered by Alchemy(Magical).
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07-29-2010, 03:57 PM | #18 | |
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Edit: hm, that said, and name apart there seems to be a lot of weird tech or alternate tech, rather than proper "fantasy" (as in the genre, such as GURPS Fantasy)... and of that, we have DF series. So I'll postpone this one... Last edited by Gudiomen; 07-29-2010 at 04:06 PM. |
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07-29-2010, 03:57 PM | #19 | |
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Napoleon III's crown jewels were apparently displayed or stored alongside bars of pure aluminum; there are also claims that a special set of aluminum flatware was used to honor guests at his table above the gold that other guests used. The Washington Monument was capped with aluminum when it was still expensive. Reasonably cheap production of aluminum (through electrolytic refining) didn't happen until 1885.
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07-29-2010, 03:58 PM | #20 |
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I think the argument would be that those are ceramic, not really just aluminum that's transparent.
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