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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 8082709" data-attributes="member: 6943731">That sort of comes off as a physics quiz of the player's knowledge in real life. Which to me, is more on the GM than the game, as one would think that asteroid miners would be well versed in newtonian mechanics, and inertia in particular. This bleeds into another grumble I have where the crew of a spacecraft only have knowledge of one aspect, where in reality, they would most like have training in all aspects, and maybe a department of specialization. They say the sea is a harsh mistress as it brooks no mistakes, space is just that much worse.As an aside to all this, I prefer the in medias res style where one jumps into the middle of the adventure, no meeting at the tavern or starport dive bar.Managing expectations is a trick in RPG's, fantasy has a ton of iterations as well. I remember reading somewhere a GM citing that the player's understanding of gravity had ruined a sci-fi game, which on the surface seemed reasonable, until thinking about it more, it was wait, your fantasy setting doesn't have uniform gravity?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 8082709, member: 6943731"] That sort of comes off as a physics quiz of the player's knowledge in real life. Which to me, is more on the GM than the game, as one would think that asteroid miners would be well versed in newtonian mechanics, and inertia in particular. This bleeds into another grumble I have where the crew of a spacecraft only have knowledge of one aspect, where in reality, they would most like have training in all aspects, and maybe a department of specialization. They say the sea is a harsh mistress as it brooks no mistakes, space is just that much worse. As an aside to all this, I prefer the [I]in medias res[/I] style where one jumps into the middle of the adventure, no meeting at the tavern or starport dive bar. Managing expectations is a trick in RPG's, fantasy has a ton of iterations as well. I remember reading somewhere a GM citing that the player's understanding of gravity had ruined a sci-fi game, which on the surface seemed reasonable, until thinking about it more, it was wait, your fantasy setting doesn't have uniform gravity? [/QUOTE]

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