The Robot Handbook is the revision. It is a rework of the previous Robots book and one of the changes that was made was adjusting the prices. It is more surprising to Me that as often as I bring it up, Mongoose never stops working in isolation. They do not seem to realize that everything in a game system is connected. That is why the rules from the different books do not play well together. (High Guard, Robots, Vehicles, CSC, FSG, etc...)
I disagree. It’s High Guard that’s the problem. They need to bring it in line with the Central Supply Catalogue, Robot Handbook, and presumably the new Vehicle Handbook.
As I’m certain that is coming to vehicles, I’ll wager it will come to ships in the next update.
Vehicles will be brought into line, I am confident. High Guard will be as well, I’m sure.
I thought so too, but apparently Geir is not fixing the Slot/Space/dTon issue, so I doubt the books will work together afterwards either.
It will work if one doesn’t get hung up on the details. Vehicles aren’t ships. The issue you mentioned won’t be addressed, but for most people it will work well enough, I suspect. I build vehicles without trying to make them robots and ships. Robots can be inside vehicles and ships, though. I can work with that.
If you try and build a non-jump ship with an RTG for long range exploration? Or want to armor your downport with starship-grade armor?
It can be done. Not much call for in-system exploitation, though.
How many PPs does an RTG put out?
That would be pretty pricy.
I’m thinking of the Stirling power plants. Need coffee. They are the ship sized equivalents.
It would be, but it makes sense to do if you live on Regina or Efate. A lot less expensive than having to rebuild it after every Frontier War.
If they are the ship-sized equivalents, then why have them at all and not just make them both RTGs and make the rules work. Less pages wasted on duplication.
Because they can’t help themselves?
Yes, the setting, the technical architecture and the combat system(s) all need to be as consistent as possible and reflect each other. These three elements then provide a coherent basis on which to layer on your adventures and campaigns. A line editor prepared to discipline individual product authors and with a good knowledge of those three pillars is then the final essential element - no more random widgets being dropped into adventures or splat books without thought to how they fit into your tech architecture and what damage they might do to your setting!
Sadly, that ship has sailed and I don't think it's coming back this way again.
MAYBE that will happen.... but highly doubtful. It hasn't happened (for the most part) since they started fleshing out the LBB's. Too many ideas that get thought out, tossed in a supplement and nobody at the editing desk slots it into the overall game setting to see just how in the heck it affects everything else.
