On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Onno Meyer wrote:
Johannes replied to me:
The Goa'uld seem to be very set in their ways how things are supposed to
look. They might favour designs of new equipment, that looks like the old
one does. They find it irritating, if the Jaffa now carry equipment that
looks different, so if the advantages of that are not great, they avoid
that.
Though overall i would consider SG a setting, where how things are
supposed to look trumps internal consistency.
That is one of the points I made to Mike re RPG settings. A RPG needs
internal logic so players can understand the GM. Plenty of precedents
from the media can overcome some of that, if everybody has seen the
same episodes.
You can get away with some inconsistencies, either if you have cooperative
players and well communicated genre conventions, or if the inconsistency
is outside of the scope of what the players can infulence. Like sure what
the players can come up with would be more logical equipment, but the pcs
will not spend an eternity arguing that point in the right comitees.
In any case it is important that the GM reflects on what the basis of his
setting should be (and that being the looks is not neccessarily wrong) and
what are corollaries, and communicates that to the players at the right
time.
I use both segway and chariot loosely here, so a segway would be a
horseless chariot. As Goa'uld vehicle it should look more like a chariot,
then a segway, but i guess that would be beyond the scope of Vehicles.
The Segway has contragrav, ducted fans, power cell, and a "harness"
crew station. The harness option also covers things like skis, so it
could arguably be a Segway.
The chariot also has contragrav, ducted fans, and a power cell, but
it has multiple exposed standing rooms.
I would build a segway with a single exposed standing room and use harness
only for jet packs and similiar. I have way less experience with Vehicles
though, so i might miss some precedents.
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