Johannes replied to me: > >> If you have large string armoured beasts of burdens propably a howdah is > >> the best design for that. Is that within the scope of vehicles. > > > > There are rules for animal or human drawn vehicles and vehicles worn > > by the operator. That's not the same as a vehicle worn by the draft > > animal. > > > > It is not the inteded use of the rules. But do you get sensible results if > you do it anyway? If i can build a harness "vehicle", that is not actually > one, on account of not having any form of propulsion, then i have built a > backpack with vehicles. If the backpack contains crew stations i have a > howdah.
One of the Vehicles Expansions has rules to scale crew stations for alien operators, they just get larger in proportion to the average body weight. There is even a precedent to use it with animals somewhere, an alien cattle raider (I don't have the books with me right now, so I can't quote chapter and verse). The harness crew station for an elephant would be a couple hundred lbs. > And (without looking at the rules) i would think that should be possible, > because the stats of an operator with a jetpack, that is currently > switched off are of interest for some game situations. And if you have > that, you can replace the jet with cargo space in the jetpack and get > usefull stats. Except that a backpack harness should be lighter and cheaper than a jetpack harness. How much cheaper? > > The latter could be copied by the quislings. The boss has a horseless > > grav chariot? The underlings have a horse-drawn chariot. The boss has > > a throne on a grav platform? Hmm, what or who could pull it instead? > > A raft or boat that floats along a canal or some form of a cable car could > be used to emulate an entry on a grav throne. Or a throne hanging from a > crane, that possibly is mounted on a vehicle. I'll look at the numbers for the raft. The crane sounds too likely to dump a VIP. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
