Re: [HOE] Pricing...

[Abdullah Oblongota <toadpooka@juno.com>]

Well, they did it all pretty much according to a grand plan.  As far as
weapon technology goes, there's a pretty large school of thought going
that says that guns aren't going to get much better, or at least the guns
that are cheap enough to hand out to every last soldier on the field
aren't.  There are energy guns and cool stuff out there, but they're more
rare because the militaries of the world didn't issue them to just
anyone.  You had to be someone special to get hold of them, and if you're
that special, you've probably still got the gun...
The more realistic way to see it is that PEG wanted to get HoE released
sometime.  This means giving the players a selection of weapons that's
somewhat limited to what's extremely common at first, and saving the
in-depth analysis of weapons improvement in the upcoming 83 years for a
later supplement (called Waste Warriors).  I think we'll see a lot of
neat gadgets in that book once it's out.

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:56:38 EDT GalenRasputin@aol.com writes:
> Except other then the Cyborg stuff and the palm corder, we don't see 
> alot of new gadgets. Now an argument could be made that the 
> Reckoners slowed down Tech advancement in other areas while speeding 
> up weapons development.  Except that H-Bombs were developed way back 
> in the 50's and 60's and it takes almost another 100 years to 
> develop the G-Bomb? How fast could the Reckoners be pushing weapons 
> tech if it took that long?

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich A Ranallo

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