10-27-2012, 08:32 PM | #21 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
Poul Anderson's "On Thud and Blunder" should still be online; the SFWAA had it on their website a few years ago.
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10-27-2012, 08:39 PM | #22 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
You also can't keep a horse locked in a storage unit all winter and expect to get it running again in the spring with a couple of kicks.
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10-27-2012, 09:43 PM | #23 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
I got rid of my kick start motorcycle and got one of those newfangled electric start ones . . . . . I don't like motorcycles half enough to deal with kickstarting
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10-28-2012, 02:02 AM | #24 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
Yes, please. I'd prefer to see a supplement, but I'd settle for a Pyramid article.
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10-28-2012, 04:16 AM | #25 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
GURPS Giddy Up, covering both real-world and fantasy mounts, like gryphons?
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10-28-2012, 06:52 AM | #26 | |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
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ETA: More generally, humans have exceptional endurance for mammals. It would not be unrealistic to give most other mammals (with the exception of creatures like wolves) Unfit or even Very Unfit. It may stretch our incredulity to give the cheetah Very Unfit, but it's not really strange when you think about it.
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10-28-2012, 10:23 AM | #27 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
I was thinking GURPS Horses. The horse is the one animal I'd like to see taken out of a bestiary and given their own treatment. I want to see extended rules on breaking, training, and riding horses, as well as more on their feeding and care, cost, use as pack and draft animals and fighting mounts, and so on. If there are a few sidebars in there on how to extend these rules to elephants, dolphins, or gryphons, I won't mind, but primarily I want to hear about horses.
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10-28-2012, 10:37 AM | #28 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
Actually I could see a "Human Partners" book, or series of small .PDFs covering horses, camels, dogs, sheep & goats, llamas, elephants and cattle. i.e. those animals that have been modified for human companionship/use. I would think that dogs and horses would rate the greatest treatment, while cats would be more of a foot note, if only because cats have not had the time and effort for such heavy specialization as other animals until recently, and most of that is to produce cosmetic changes, not functional ones. By the way, I say this as a cat person.
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10-28-2012, 11:28 AM | #29 |
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Re: Horses Aren't Medieval Motorcycles
Cats would be the "Owning Humans" PDF.
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