01-30-2015, 11:25 AM | #11 |
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Re: Spacer as Soldier
Letting Spacer work that way is fine; as has been pointed out, GURPS Spaceships says as much. The cutoff in GURPS Fourth Edition remains "someone with the specialized skill would roll at +4 or better," and the task must correspond to "routine use of standard equipment by ordinary personnel." The origin of that +4 isn't terribly important: a really good interface (Equipment Modifiers, p. B345), extra time (Time Spent, p. B345), or just a trivial task (Task Difficulty, pp. B345-346). What is important is that you can't confront challenges, improvise, or figure out gear you've never seen – you can only do your job exactly according to the manual for the systems you were trained on.
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01-30-2015, 11:41 AM | #12 | |
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Re: Spacer as Soldier
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No skill required. Using any system designed for general use. Imagine a phone here on Earth right now, or the radio equivalent that any passenger vessel would almost certainly be carrying. This would include more complex systems with computerized automation, but only to the limits of what that automation is programmed to do (HAL might tell you the AE-35 antenna-steering unit is down).
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01-30-2015, 12:22 PM | #13 | |
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*In case the equipment doesn't do that automatically.
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01-30-2015, 12:27 PM | #14 | |
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01-30-2015, 12:35 PM | #15 | |
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02-06-2015, 12:00 AM | #16 |
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Re: Spacer as Soldier
Thank you for detailed explanations, this helps a lot.
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