Re: [HOE] Junkman Cometh... Long list of questions

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

Lemme see what I can remember...

>The table show the following:
>
>TN Time Cards Spirit
>8-11 1d6h 2 d8
>14-17 2d6h 2 d10
>
>What happened to 12 & 13??


That's a misprint.  It should be "8-12" and "13-17."

>Secondly, the Locomotion power states that all Chassis begin with an Armour
>Value of 1.   Is this also true of vehicles created using the VTOL power?


I believe that all vehicles get a point of armor, by the very fact
that...they're vehicles.

>Thirdly, I'd like some opinion's concerning Powerpacks and devices.   The
>Junkman Cometh (pg 37) lists the Target Numbers, etc for the creation of
>spirit batteries, but what about Powerpacks?   Page 62 states that
>Powerpacks "are built in the same way as spirit batteries."
>
>Does this mean that separate roll(s) are required for the creation of the
>Powerpack?


If I recall correctly, yes.  Just like a Spirit Battery.

>Fourthly, Reactors.   The Junkman Cometh states that each reactor comes
with
>it's Frame Size/4 Powerjacks.   Does this mean that in a larger device, ALL
>other powers/abilities must have an additional two slots allocated for
>power?   Or do these powers/abilities automatically get power purely
because
>the reactor is 'built in' to the larger device?


Uh...  I'm not sure, exactly.  I would imagine that any device the reactor
is built into automatically recieves power, but that the powerjacks are
there for just because there's so much extra juice to spare.  Or something.
Beats me.

>Fifthly.   When calculating the Spirit that eventually inhabits your new
>toy, how do you determine the spirit for devices that have multiple powers?
>Are there several different spirits all crowded into it, or do you take the
>single largest spirit and use that for the entire device, or what?


You'd just take the largest, I believe.  Makes things simple.

>Finally, I was looking at designing an 'invisibility' or sneak-suit.   If
>the suit provides ECM vs more than one sense (say, visual, IR/Thermo,
>Nightsight, and sound) do I need a separate Sensor Rating for each sense,
or
>merely one Sensor Rating for the entire sneak suit?


You'd need seperate sensor ratings.  For the above example, you'd have "ECM:
Visual" (which is a Basic sense) and "ECM: Infrared" (which is an Enhanced
sense), so you'd need two different ratings, one for each.  However, even if
you had two seperate senses of the same type (i.e. Basic Sight and Basic
Hearing), you'd STILL need two seperate ratings.  Each sensor "part" has its
own distinct rating.

Hope that helps.

--Kai Tave