Hal/Alaconius may be one of those GM's for whom the "irrelevant crunchy
stuff in the background" (Paraphrased from RPG.net IIRC) is a large part of
what makes being the GM worthwhile for them...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Lang" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Planetary movement and checking the Math
Kurt makes a good point. In the Solar System, only Mercury and Venus have
orbital periods measured in weeks or months; everything beyond that is
measured in years (Earth and Mars) or decades (Jupiter, Saturn, etc.)
Unless your spacecraft are slow enough to have travel times measured in
months or years, you can pretty much treat nearly every planet in the
Solar
System as a stationary object; and if you _do_ have travel times that long
or longer, you're either going to have copious down-time in your campaign,
or the vast majority of your campaign will take place on board a
"slow-boat"
that is, for all intents and purposes, a miniature world of its own adrift
between the planets: on the typical scale of adventures, it too might as
well be stationary.
--
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
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