Re: [BNW] Delta Prime/Gadgeteers

["Patrick O'Duffy" <redfern@thehub.com.au>]

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From: "The White Crow" <whytcrow@io.com>
To: <bnw@gamerz.net>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [BNW] Delta Prime/Gadgeteers


> At 11:41 AM 4/19/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >In the Delta Prime book, there are descriptions of the Armegeddon
> >Corps.  I don't have the book here in front of me, but it says something
> >about an Armegeddon team consists of five suits of armor also a gadgeteer
> >and a pilot for each suit.  It seems the wording is a little
> >tricky.  Obviously there needs to be a pilot for each suit, but my
> >question is:  Is there one gadgeteer per suit also?  If so, it seems that
> >there would need to be an awful lot of gadgeteers in DP's employ.  And if
> >not, does that mean that one gadgeteer is maintaining five Armegeddon
suits?

My game assumes that the Armorgeddon suits aren't the gadgets; the _real_
gadget that requires upkeep is the orbiting satellites that beam power,
Tesla-style, down to the suits.

This has drawbacks - Amorgeddon suits lose connection with their power if
they move under cover and have only 1 minute of battery power - but it makes
at least a modicum of sense.

It also means that when the hammer comes down, the PCs can negate _all_ the
Armorgeddon units in the country - assuming they can get into orbit and take
out the satellites...

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

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old show tunes...

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