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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2111692" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>To a point, I totally agree with you. If you've got cars in d20 Modern, you need carriages and hansom cabs in d20 Past. Duh.</p><p></p><p>Some of that, though, I'd say might possibly have gotten cut in favor of other stuff under the "Most GMs will handwave this" clause. If you want to do <em>Oratio Orcslayer</em>, and gosh, isn't that an image, yeah, you'll want a whole lot of rules involving tactical ship combat. But for most folks, you get on the ship, you go from one place to another, and if the GM is feeling wacky, you have some on-the-ship roleplaying time and maybe a pirate attack, and the GM handwaves the ship movement and just calls for a lot of Balance checks. Same for carriages. Most of the time, carriages are a way to get from one place to another. They're a plot event. Most of the time, the speed of a carriage is important only with respect to the speed of a horse, so that the GM will know whether the horses how quickly the horses will catch up with the carriage as the heroine tries to control the carriage horses and parry the attacks of Duke Rastigan's hired swordsmen simultaneously. Again, probably handwaved, with some Balance checks.</p><p></p><p>I can understand the reasons that people who want the stuff would want it -- it's useful for tactical games. But I can also understand leaving that information out, if they had to cut something, under the theory that it might be more information than needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 2111692, member: 5171"] To a point, I totally agree with you. If you've got cars in d20 Modern, you need carriages and hansom cabs in d20 Past. Duh. Some of that, though, I'd say might possibly have gotten cut in favor of other stuff under the "Most GMs will handwave this" clause. If you want to do [i]Oratio Orcslayer[/i], and gosh, isn't that an image, yeah, you'll want a whole lot of rules involving tactical ship combat. But for most folks, you get on the ship, you go from one place to another, and if the GM is feeling wacky, you have some on-the-ship roleplaying time and maybe a pirate attack, and the GM handwaves the ship movement and just calls for a lot of Balance checks. Same for carriages. Most of the time, carriages are a way to get from one place to another. They're a plot event. Most of the time, the speed of a carriage is important only with respect to the speed of a horse, so that the GM will know whether the horses how quickly the horses will catch up with the carriage as the heroine tries to control the carriage horses and parry the attacks of Duke Rastigan's hired swordsmen simultaneously. Again, probably handwaved, with some Balance checks. I can understand the reasons that people who want the stuff would want it -- it's useful for tactical games. But I can also understand leaving that information out, if they had to cut something, under the theory that it might be more information than needed. [/QUOTE]
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