Re: [GZG] Mixed Role Fighters

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Yeah, without some sort of technological relativity built into the
system, those sorts of things are hard to calculate in game terms. the
GZG games pretty assume a certain status quo when it comes to tech
shared between races. All perform at the same levels. It is only in the
racially specific technologies that we see any variations between
species. 

I would say that if you wish to have tech level reflected in your games
then it should come down to some sort of performance-enhancing modifier
determined by the tech levels. However, I am not entirely sure that GZGs
system has a wide enough spread of statistical variation to allow for
more than a couple distinct levels of tech without rewriting the whole
system. 

-Eli 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom McCarthy" <Tom.McCarthy@xwave.com> 
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu 
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:55:59 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [GZG] Mixed Role Fighters 

Robert Mayberry suggests: Instead of mucking around with 
multirole-but-not-multirole fighters, just make role one variable and 
quality or tech base another. 

I have to agree, and just to be rude about it (or at least stretch logic

and etiquette), I'd say Jon Tuffley does too. 
Reading Earth Force Sourcebook, he clearly felt a need to make a matrix 
showing relative quality of various races' fighters against each other, 
but because they all filled multiple roles, they all stayed "fighters" 
(i.e. unspecialized). 

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