On 5/12/2014 11:48 AM, Anthony Jackson wrote:
From: Onno Meyer
Is that a blind spot or perfectly logical? When GURPS Old West talks
about trains, they provide hexgrid plans for the cars, not stats for
the engine. If a rail vehicle appears in a game, are the player
characters ever in the driver's cab?
Possibly, but there's generally not a lot they can do in terms of actual
driving.
A steam engine requires a complicated arrangement of valves - driving
one isn't going to be easy if you're working on the default!
I suppose one of those levers might be the brakes - but there's only
one way to see for sure.
and how do you stop the steam engine from driving the wheels you're
trying to stop?
So, in a game, the PCs are generally going to be fighting in the
passenger areas.
But it would be a blind spot not to include the control cabin. Ownership
of that and the safety of the engineers is going to be important.
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