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Which skill do I use

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Fri, 2010-11-05 00:51

OneTrikPony OneTrikPony's picture

Which skill do I use

Which skill do I use to pilot a rocket pack. (p. 345) Which skill do I use to pilot a thruster pack. (also p. 345) I'm pretty sure I'd use the Freefall skill for a thruster pack. My reasoning for that is fairly convoluted, Vacsuit is a specialization of the freefall skill. I'm asumeing by vacsuit they meant the EVA pack that RL astronauts use in spacewalks. I'm thinking that the rocket pack would be covered by the Pilot: Spacecraft skill but I'm not sure about that so I thought I should put the question here. The museing that brought the question to mind is kind of interesting. The book says that the Rocketpack can reach Lunar orbit, Which means that it has a Delta V of 2.38km/second. That's [b]EIGHTY FIVE HUNDRED[/B] km per hour! The thought of buzzing over the Lunar surface at a couple thousand KPH in a jetpack makes me grin from ear-to-ear but it seems like a physical feat equal to riding a skateboard traveling at landspeed record velocities. Wrecking would suck alot. Venusan High divers are pussies compaired to Lunar Rocketpack racers.

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Fri, 2010-11-05 03:03

randombugger randombugger's picture

Re: Which skill do I use

I'd have it under Pilot: Personal Vehicle or Exotic Vehicle

Fri, 2010-11-05 13:04

XenoSean

Re: Which skill do I use

The thruster pack being Free-fall makes sense to me. As for the Rocket Pack, I think it would depend on where you're piloting it. If you're in micro-gravity without atmosphere, it would be Pilot: Spacecraft. In an atmosphere and gravity, use Flight. If you have gravity, but no atmosphere, like on Mercury or Luna; or have atmosphere but no gravity, like in a micro-gravity sealed Hab; I'd probably let the character use the better of the two skills with something like a -20 or -30 penalty. Probably worse to deal with atmosphere and possible turbulance than with gravity. Although, if you want to go 8500 kph inside a micro-grav hab, I don't know that any kind of rolls are going to make sense....

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Fri, 2010-11-05 13:07

CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture

Re: Which skill do I use

XenoSean wrote:
Although, if you want to go 8500 kph inside a micro-grav hab, I don't know that any kind of rolls are going to make sense....

A SOM*3 roll to find out how far your spleen flies as you splat into the far wall?

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Fri, 2010-11-05 13:41

XenoSean

Re: Which skill do I use

Make it a simple success roll. Regular success, your spleen flies x meters. Good success you get to determine who it hits in the face. I mean, SOM [i]is[/i] a measure of bodily control, afterall.

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Fri, 2010-11-05 13:53

OneTrikPony OneTrikPony's picture

Re: Which skill do I use

I've just discovered the most powerfull man protable weapon in the game; 1D10+850 DV according to the collision rules. unfortunately it doesn't have any AP and the fireing mode is single shot ;) I'm going to have to go with Exotic vehicle as the piloting field. I didn't even see that on the list before, Thanks.

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Sat, 2010-11-06 01:23

randombugger randombugger's picture

Re: Which skill do I use

Your welcome. Damn if that isn't a amusing way to loose a morph though.

Sat, 2010-11-06 11:48

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Re: Which skill do I use

OneTrikPony wrote:
I've just discovered the most powerfull man protable weapon in the game; 1D10+850 DV according to the collision rules.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - SPLAT! Makes me wonder what truly bizarre things earn Darwin Awards in 10 AP. "Tried to repair his emergency farcaster with a multitool" "Instead of cranking up the air-conditioning he turned of his coronal shield for a moment"

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Sat, 2010-11-06 13:22

Decivre

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randombugger wrote:
Your welcome. Damn if that isn't a amusing way to loose a morph though.

Or one more argument that jamming is the single most powerful military technology around. In fact, I think I'm going to implement a brand new sort of Jovian weapon called the Rocketeer... a rocket-propelled UAV designed to crash into a target at Mach 3, and then explode.

Arenamontanus wrote:
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - SPLAT! Makes me wonder what truly bizarre things earn Darwin Awards in 10 AP. "Tried to repair his emergency farcaster with a multitool" "Instead of cranking up the air-conditioning he turned of his coronal shield for a moment"

It will only get funnier when lifeloggers do stupid things that get them killed. *wakes up in body bank* Subject: "Huh? What happened? How did I die?" Doctor: "Um, how should I put this.... *snicker* Nurse! Load up his video from LifeTube!" Other funny ways to die include: [list][*]Leaving a rear-facing maintenance hatch open when the ship starts to accelerate. [*]Being convinced by an email to run [code]sudo format /cyberbrain[/code] on your inserts. [*]Urinating on your plasma rifle's radiation coil because "you read that it worked on 21st century cars". [*]Disabling the screening filters of your house's nano-maintenance recycling system. [*]Bleeding to death after telling your simple AI-guided servant robot to "bite my ass". [*]Foolishly believing that your vacsuit is already reentry-capable without asking your freefall instructor. [*]Bungee-jumping into Jupiter's atmosphere.[/list]

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Sat, 2010-11-06 14:07

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XenoSean

Re: Which skill do I use

I'm not sure if it makes it more or less funny that the recipients of this version of the Darwin Award are likely to be present to accept said award. :)

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Sat, 2010-11-06 14:29

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Decivre

Re: Which skill do I use

XenoSean wrote:
I'm not sure if it makes it more or less funny that the recipients of this version of the Darwin Award are likely to be present to accept said award. :)

It might not even be a Darwin Award anymore, considering that one of the prerequisites of the Award is that you have to remove yourself from the genepool (some recipients have survived, but have generally done something stupid that involved castrating themselves). This isn't really possible in a world where people can be restored through ego backups and cloning.

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Sat, 2010-11-06 14:53

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XenoSean

Re: Which skill do I use

Good point.

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Sat, 2010-11-06 18:29

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OneTrikPony OneTrikPony's picture

Re: Which skill do I use

I'm such a big fan; I present to you... [B]JACKASS: AF10[/B] LOL :D which reminds me I need to go see Jackass3d. I just wrote up my Rocketpack Racer last night. He's got a muse called Chim-Chim and an automech called Daishuke (Pops) and everything! :D Now I'm a little sad cuz I like him better than the character I'm allready playing. I'm pretty sure there are going to be darwin awards post fall. But we'll get to do them right way because everyone will get to VOTE on whether a nominee can return to the gene pool. I've long been a proponent of retoactive abortion.

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