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Scale and Strength of Materials and Buildings?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 1:29 pm    Post subject: Scale and Strength of Materials and Buildings? Reply with quote

I have been kicking around the idea of the strength and scale of certain items that appear in games frequently or I have questions about. For example a blast door. I believe they are Strength 6D and have no scale modifier. How do you guys feel about that? To further illustrate this, how about a reinforced communication bunker?

If we assume that a 6D blast door is pretty darn strong then we would think the same of a communications bunker. So if that is the strongest material for a door perhaps its the same for a building.

Communications Bunker
Scale: Character
Body Strength: 6D

An AT-AT shows and shoots at it. Since its stationary I would give a positive modifier and no scale difference to hit it. Say a +1D. So its pretty much going to get hit. Now we roll damage, the main weapons on an AT-AT do 6D+4D for scale difference for a total of 10D.

On average, the building will roll 21 and the AT-AT, 35. A difference of 14 points which is Heavily Damaged. If hit again it becomes it becomes Seriously Damage and if hit a third time, it is Destroyed.

Does that seem right to you guys? Do you think that inanimate buildings, bunkers, etc should even have a scale difference or just bump the Body Strength? Do you think a +1D modifier to hit a stationary object is reasonable?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i've always felt there should be some sort of main rules for buildings in regards to resistance/body values. Cause at 6d, a force pointed normal human could punch through a blast door which just makes me go "Fut the whuk?"!!!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think they should have a scale difference, but that their scale will seldom be character.... a communications bunker is likely to be walker, if not starfighter, scale, as well as substantial armor and body.

I mean, I can figure a bunker made from the body of an AT-AT. Then cover it with dirt and ferrocrete. That's not going to be character scale.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heck in one of the games i played when i was in london, someone took an at-at head, and made IT a bunker..
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

garhkal wrote:
Heck in one of the games i played when i was in london, someone took an at-at head, and made IT a bunker..


I dunno, that doesn't sound as awesome as something I saw in one of the WEG books: an AT-AT that had its legs replaced with repulsorlifts and subsequently turned into a pleasurecraft/mobile casino.
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Sutehp wrote:
garhkal wrote:
Heck in one of the games i played when i was in london, someone took an at-at head, and made IT a bunker..


I dunno, that doesn't sound as awesome as something I saw in one of the WEG books: an AT-AT that had its legs replaced with repulsorlifts and subsequently turned into a pleasurecraft/mobile casino.


Wasn't there also one that was a casino/building on Tattoine which was a crashed cap ship??
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garhkal wrote:
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garhkal wrote:
Heck in one of the games i played when i was in london, someone took an at-at head, and made IT a bunker..


I dunno, that doesn't sound as awesome as something I saw in one of the WEG books: an AT-AT that had its legs replaced with repulsorlifts and subsequently turned into a pleasurecraft/mobile casino.


Wasn't there also one that was a casino/building on Tattoine which was a crashed cap ship??


The only crashed ship write-up I remember is the ProfitSmasher in Hideouts and Strongholds, but that was more of a pirate/smuggler hideout that kept switching owners. (The narrator even says "I'm telling you, the flargin' thing is jinxed.") It wasn't a casino and it wasn't on Tatooine. Are you remembering something different from the ProfitSmasher, garhkal? Because if you are, I'm curious to see that write-up.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It came from one of the novels.. The owner was a rival of Jabba iirc..
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 1:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

garhkal wrote:
It came from one of the novels.. The owner was a rival of Jabba iirc..


Tales of the Mos Eisly Cantina, maybe? I never read that one.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

garhkal wrote:
Wasn't there also one that was a casino/building on Tattoine which was a crashed cap ship??


The Lucky Despot. I spent some time there before Star Wars Galaxies was retired.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I knew it was somewhere. Thanks for finding it for me Mr. Green
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