What happened to Zero-G?

[ShawnDriscoll]

How about applying a bane if you don't have Zero G experience, and applying a boon only if you have extensive Zero G training a la Star Marines?

One of many ways to handle it, depending on how good the players and referee are at a table.

 

[Condottiere]

It's an adaptation, which some of us would just be better at.

How would you express that and does that need to be compensated for? That's why it's a question if you need to count that as a skill.

 

[steve98052]

I think Zero G is a tough case. Without at least a little training, people are essentially helpless in zero G. Many vomit the first time they experience it. Some never overcome that nausea; astronaut candidates have washed out for that reason. Without the skill, you have a real problem if you encounter the condition.

On the other hand, it's a skill with very narrow applications; if no one turns off the gravity, the skill is never used. Is it really worth including something that narrow? Maybe it should be a free skill (at zero) for anyone who gets another space skill.

And a digression:

. . . There are plenty I don't agree with (it's way more difficult to shoot a pistol than it is a rifle but that's a dead horse I don't want to flog) and likewise I don't agree with athletics (dex) as the appropriate skill for zero G. . . .

I've fired rifles and a pistol, and I found the rifle much easier. I don't know how large the difference is in the rules, but the existence of a difference seems reasonable to me.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Our group ran a session once where, per chance nobody had taken or received a zero gravity skill. The results of trying to fix a simple malfunction on the exterior of the ship were...Monty Python-esque. Too a whole session to complete.

 

[Condottiere]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwyXLBQUEC0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co