03-02-2012, 12:59 PM | #31 |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
Really? In a weird WWII campaign there is quibbling over a British character having an American motorcycle? ;)
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03-02-2012, 01:43 PM | #32 |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
Question of cultural feel. If you're going to have British characters, small things that don't make them look quite convincingly British will jar more than large general things like the presence of magic. It'd be like having a can-do New England Yankee gadgeteer character who played cricket and whose favourite food was curry.
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03-02-2012, 03:40 PM | #33 | |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
If that's the Enfield No. 1, I'm surprised that someone so skilled with guns has kept it. It was replaced in British service by the Webley in 1889, because it was unsafe, with a tendency to go off if dropped, and unreliable.
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03-02-2012, 10:16 PM | #34 |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
Sorry, I don't see a problem with this either :)
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03-05-2012, 03:28 AM | #35 |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
On the other hand, I do see the point, and I tend to agree... with the provisos that:
a) I'd make allowances for the players' pet likes and dislikes anyway. If, as I seem to remember, the player really wanted a Harley Davidson rather than anything else, including a Norton, for his own reasons, he'd probably react to my objections by coming up with more or less plausible accounts of how the character had managed to find one. So, do I really want to annoy the player over something like this? b) One should also keep in mind that I'm an Italian GM with Italian players. Most of us do like British culture, and most of us were fascinated with the British ethos of early WWII, but we are no Brits. Probably, if we all lived in Britain we would have found the Harley Davidson more jarring. |
03-06-2012, 01:54 PM | #36 |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
I did a bit of Googling. Harley-Davidsons were exported to 67 countries by the 1920s,so it seems likely the UK would have been amongst those. They presumably didn't sell large numbers, but it seems to be "unusual", rather than "implausible".
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03-07-2012, 01:03 AM | #37 |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
Well, I had surmised that, but I'll admit I was too lazy to look it up... Even if the campaign is over, it's nice to know that, thank you!
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03-07-2012, 01:12 AM | #38 | ||
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
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03-07-2012, 02:56 AM | #39 |
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Lithuania
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
Excuse me if i post some nonsense i am quite new to all of this, Michele are you starting to play this game and giving out characters?
Cause i want to try and play Gurps or any other board based game online, and i just can't seem to find how. |
03-07-2012, 03:07 AM | #40 | |
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Re: GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour
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No, the campaign is over. I'm just posting the characters that were used for a long time in a face-to-face gaming campaign. I wouldn't post the characters for all to see if we were starting right now, each of the players has the right to keep his own PC's little secrets if he so wishes. As to playing online, I think you might have a look at the Play by Post sub-forum. Have fun. |
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