05-25-2020, 08:39 PM | #11 |
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Re: Nitroglycerin invention date and TL
An individual with Explosives/TL5 that attempts to use nitro would suffer a -7 to skill (-5 for the TL+1 penalty and -2 for lack of familiarity), which could be quite deadly. This is historically accurate, as a number of people blew themselves up with nitro soon after it was commercially available.
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05-26-2020, 07:15 AM | #12 | |
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Late TL 5 is also prone to complicated dating situations. I usually consider it to be its own TL, with early repeating firearms, steam railroads, and the occasional telegraph.
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05-26-2020, 09:43 AM | #13 | |
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For comparison, I don't know how to handle a sailboat, and if I had to try I'd be rolling against IQ-5 (since I'm sure my IQ is higher than my DX!). But I wouldn't also have an added -2 penalty for being unfamliiar with, say, a sloop as opposed to a Bermuda rig. I'm not familiar with any of them; that's part of the definition of not having the skill.The -5 for unskilled takes the place of the -2 for unfamliar; you don't have both penalties.
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05-26-2020, 12:17 PM | #14 |
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Re: Nitroglycerin invention date and TL
Basic, p. 169 says that TL and familiarity penalties apply at the same time. Familiarity penalties can be removed with just eight hours of practice. TL penalties require the appropriate TL and a new skill to remove.
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05-26-2020, 12:27 PM | #15 |
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Re: Nitroglycerin invention date and TL
For late TL5 I'd make familiarity with Nitro a perk, similar to the "Early Adopter" perk for firearms. It was used for blasting, and a small number of people would know how to use it prior to TL6.
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05-26-2020, 01:31 PM | #16 | |
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I don't know how to handle a sailboat either, but I imagine that trying to sail with one specific type would not be as hard as having to switch to a new type of sail boat every hour right after I get some familiarity with the previous type. |
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05-26-2020, 01:46 PM | #17 | |
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As example we still produce and use many low TL items that a person from far past would find familiar. Even if there is a "new model" of one of them, it is still usually a low TL item. The Mauser model 1871 is TL5 because it uses black powder in a single shot bolt action rifle. The 1884 version had a tubular magazine, but that is still a common late TL5 technology. |
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05-26-2020, 04:58 PM | #18 | |
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05-26-2020, 05:09 PM | #19 | |
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05-27-2020, 08:08 AM | #20 |
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I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say here. You would get worse at using other types of equipment once you get familiar with one of them, because from then on familiarity penalties apply?
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