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[Golan2072]

A few minor (and not-so-minor) issues:
- Characters age at the same rate in all TLs (Book 1), unless anagathics (sp?) are applied. This ignores the effects of general sanitation and medical technology on the aging process, which has increased life expectancy significantly between TL 6 and TL 7.
- Bullets but not magazines interchangable between SMGs and pistols (Book 1); IRL, an Uzi (atleast the "micro" variants) could accept a Glock magazine "as is", and I presume that in a highly standartlized, TL8+ environment, most 9mm weapons will use the same type of box magazine for ease of use and maintainance.
- Telescopic and Electronic sights being extra fragile (Book 1), a TL6/early TL7 issue, they should be hardened by late TL7 (as some are today)/early TL8.
- Carbines cannot mount bayonets (Book 1), which is strange since I recall SMGs (old Uzis) mounting them, and they were shorter than carbines.
- Mass tons are often confused with displacement tons, as in the ATV (Book 3) taking displacement tons equal to its mass to carry onboard a starship (Book 3).
- Computer rules; but for these there are enough threads discussing the issue.

 

[far-trader]

Addressing your nits Employee 2-4601 I agree with the gun issues 100%. Well, on the short guns with bayonets I agree there are examples but I'm not sure how effective they would be. Better than nothing in CQ which is the point so I'd use and allow them too.

As for life expectancy my take on the aging crisis is PCs live hard and die young, not from "aging" so much as "life" lived dangerously. And as for medical tech I also figure all PCs have the best available, so usually TL13-15, part of the privilege of being a Citizen (by my definition, serving or having served in the Imperial Services, as most PCs do).

The whole mass tons vs displacement tons I am convinced is a mistake. Throughout High Guard it says "weighs" this many tons when referring to ship components. Sure there are references to displacement tons but it is mostly for when doing deckplans. I'm all but covinced the original intention was that the design system was mass based and that deckplans were the only place that displacement was supposed to be factored and in these cases the "guideline" was 1 mass ton was about 1.5m x 3.0m x 3.0m plus or minus up to 20%. So a 10ton jump drive could be dense and take up 16 1.5m squares or not so dense and take up 24 1.5m squares. But there's probably no turning that ship back so I'll stick with my 1/2 rule

Computers, yes that is better left to it's own topic

 

[far-trader]

Addressing your nits Employee 2-4601 I agree with the gun issues 100%. Well, on the short guns with bayonets I agree there are examples but I'm not sure how effective they would be. Better than nothing in CQ which is the point so I'd use and allow them too.

As for life expectancy my take on the aging crisis is PCs live hard and die young, not from "aging" so much as "life" lived dangerously. And as for medical tech I also figure all PCs have the best available, so usually TL13-15, part of the privilege of being a Citizen (by my definition, serving or having served in the Imperial Services, as most PCs do).

The whole mass tons vs displacement tons I am convinced is a mistake. Throughout High Guard it says "weighs" this many tons when referring to ship components. Sure there are references to displacement tons but it is mostly for when doing deckplans. I'm all but covinced the original intention was that the design system was mass based and that deckplans were the only place that displacement was supposed to be factored and in these cases the "guideline" was 1 mass ton was about 1.5m x 3.0m x 3.0m plus or minus up to 20%. So a 10ton jump drive could be dense and take up 16 1.5m squares or not so dense and take up 24 1.5m squares. But there's probably no turning that ship back so I'll stick with my 1/2 rule

Computers, yes that is better left to it's own topic