FFS3 for T5

[robject]

Thank you Anthony. Maybe we need a list of problems and their seriousness, just for reference. Assuming a re-thinking isn't possible, then we have to consider what if anything can or ought to be done about each item.

I'll work off of my initial list.

FFS2 base
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• Hull creation rules</font>
• Materials tech</font>
• Crew calculations - add simpler version</font>
• Volume requirements for carried craft?</font>
• Sensors adjusted?</font>
• Thruster plates downgraded (average mass per Ton updated?)</font>
• Energy production adjusted (esp Fusion+)</font>
• Plasma/Fusion weapons need better range</font>
• Laser lens mass formula</font>
• PA energy density/mass formula</font>

MT high-tech stuff adapted into the base
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• TL16-TL24 stuff</font>

FFS1 alternate tech
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• Used as-is (buy the FFS1 book from DTRPG if you want to use it).</font>

 

[Andrew Boulton]

In general, FF&S1 explains things better.

It's very hard to make a decent laser pistol.

IIRC gauss barrels get longer as TL increases...

 

[Antony]

Re the Gauss Weapon barrel lengths in FF&S1 a pair of brackets should be attached to the formula which should have been Lb = (V/100)* TLm not as I have seen it interpreted as Lb = V/(100*TLm)
Where Lb is barrel length, V is velocity in ms-1 and Tlm is the tech level multiplier

It is very very hard to make a decent laser pistol.

On the other hand I have never been able to reproduce either the existing backpack DEI lasers or the battledress fitted with equipment that appear in the TNE books.