[TML] RTT FGMP

[Richard Aiken]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Evyn MacDude <infojunky at ceecom.net> wrote:
>> Not really.  I think it's kind of elegant, myself.  It certainly saves
>> the Referee from having to say something like: "You can't have it
>> because I said so."
>
> That's not my response.... If they got em and start using them as
> your answer to every question, well then so will they. I have never
> understood why some people get hot under the collar about PCs having
> weapons of mass destruction. Most groups already have access to
> ship's weapons/active sensor arrays, why worry about a tin suit and a
> energy grenade launcher.

Well . . . there's always the players of Marines who muster out with
Cr500 and a "Gun-1," but want it to be an FGMP.  This would put a
damper on that.

And the radiation effect means that the effort of acquisition would
need to take this into account, in-game:

NPC Fixer: "Okay, Harry.  I know a guy who knows a guy who knows how
to get you enough parts that 'fell off the supply truck' that the
techie you've got can put together an FGMP for you."
Harry:  "All right!"
NPC Fixer: "So do you already have a source for the rad armor?"
Harry, puzzled: "What rad armor?"

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein