06-14-2016, 03:00 PM | #21 |
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
Great. That's what GURPS Vehicle Design will be.
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06-14-2016, 05:12 PM | #22 | |
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
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Since nearly everything scales at 1-3-10, 1-2-5-10, or 1-1.5-2-3-5-7-10, I only had to write three tables and that covered nearly the whole system. Armor needed a few clarifications due to rounding. Weapons were surprisingly simple (same weapon classes, just more or fewer per system). In all other ways the ship is treated as a normal ship of its SM. These are purely design rules, and so don't change how the game works at the tabletop at all, and is 100% compatible with published designs. So for a battletech style game where you have 20 to 100 ton size classes and finnicky design rules are part of the setting, default Spaceships gives you two size classes: 30 ton (SM+5) and 100 ton (SM +6). With Light and Heavy added, you have 20, 30, 45, 60, and 100 tons, which covers most of the bases and was close enough for me. I only use light and heavy when I want a lot of variety, like for snub fighters in star wars. Great! I think the decision to go with PDF so you can incorporate errata is the right one. I know you guys are allergic to kickstarter, but if the pdf is a success I'd love to contribute to one so you could do a hardcover print run a few months to a year later. Knowing David Pulver, it will rock and I'd pay prior to publication... but doing it after the fact takes out the risk on both ends and turns it more into a preorder system, which is a little more conservative. |
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06-14-2016, 07:04 PM | #23 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
Yeah, Kickstarter. I'd pitch in.
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06-14-2016, 08:52 PM | #24 | |
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Of course the book I really want to see is GURPS Armory. I'd pay David or Han's a crispy High-Five just to have 15min to look over the manuscript.
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06-14-2016, 09:45 PM | #25 |
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
We know. Re-read our posts. We're specifically talking about a kick starter for a hard cover printing once the book is done and already released as a PDF.
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06-14-2016, 09:56 PM | #26 |
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
Ah, my bad.
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06-15-2016, 04:45 AM | #27 | |
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Yep, I'd happily buy the PDF and then also kickstart for a hard copy (or POD of course). I image this is book that I will be thumbing through a lot, so it will actually suit me to have it in both formats. |
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10-24-2016, 12:22 PM | #28 |
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
The 3rd edition Vehicles is one of my more worn out GURPS books. I'd definitely pitch in for a crowdfunding campaign for a physical copy after PDF release, which I'd probably buy too. My problem tends to be that I don't learn of such campaigns in time, though.
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10-24-2016, 12:40 PM | #29 |
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Re: Gurps Vehicles / 4th. Edition
Honestly, vehicles is not one of the books I ever felt the need to work on offline, so it wouldn't be a high priority for being hardcopy. A spreadsheet or program would be nifty though.
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10-24-2016, 01:53 PM | #30 | |
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