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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7949453" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agree with this. I think of it as a game of "moves" (to use AW jargon) - eg When you attempt a non- ordinary manoeuvre while wearing a vacc suit, throw + 4 per level of Vacc Suit expertise. On a 10+, your manoeuvre succeeds. Otherwise, the referee tells you what dangerous situation eventuates. Throw again, +6 if you have Vacc Suit-1 and +2 per additional level of expertise. On an 11+, you remedy the situation. Otherwise, the referee will tell you what happens.(I've taken this straight from Book 1, 1977 version. But have re-formatted it into AW-type jargon, and presented the maths more straightforwardly rather than as 7+ but with a -4 penalty for no skill.)Many other rules systems can be seen in exactly the same way: when you operate your ship's jump drive; when you try to evade gunfire while piloting an air/raft; when you make an offer of employment to a NPC; etc.Are these "moves" mostly thematically appropriate with the results driving matters forward whatever happens? As a general proposition, I think the answer is yes.I use those bays, plus allow a single energy beam in a triple turret. I use to hit bonuses of +2 or +4 for the bays, and +6 or +8 for my two sizes of spinal mount. Energy weapons ignore sand, but otherwise attack as lasers but delviering an additional consequence rolled on an "energey weapon effect table" that I adapted from High Guard. A spinal mount, unlike a turret or bay-mounted energy weapon, does 5 rolls on both the normal and energy weapon table.</blockquote>

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