Re: [HoE] Junkman Cometh

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

Patrick Phalen wrote:

> Why couldn't you just find some glass and a metal tube and do the
> machining/grinding/whatever to make a conventional rifle scope?

...because if I go to any self-respecting marshall and say, "Hey, I've got a
plasma pistol with a range increment of 20 yards" then things are going to get
ugly, especially if there's no math to back it up and I tell him "Oh, he just
found some prescription glasses and ground them down with a nail file. Didn't
cost me a thing."

The "why don't you just use normal stuff?" argument is pretty weak. For one
thing, there's no "rifle scope" on the equipment lists, no price for it, and no
way to assign a cost or value. How can any Marshall keep his players under
control when the players can just say, "Oh, well, my Law Dog found a portable
anti-tank laser in the ruins of some army base. It does 5d20 damage and it
doesn't use junker tech."

And one other reason... PEG put a lot of time and effort into 90+ pages, and I
want to use 'em. Why spend money on a book there's no point in using? Sure, I
could talk the Marshall into letting me scrounge up a normal scope... but if
I've got the darned book, why not put it to use?