Equipment with no description, questions

[Zulgyan]

Rations: 200 cost. Pretty hefty price! No description given in the 1E Sourcebook. I ruled this could feed a party of 5 for a week.

Shield Generator (small 1D) and (medium 2D): Are these intended for ships or persons? What do they do? I can't find a description of their utility.

Both items are listed in page 97 of the 1E Sourcebook.

[boot]

May 25, 2019 19:58:31 GMT -6 Zulgyan said:

Rations: 200 cost. Pretty hefty price! No description given in the 1E Sourcebook. I ruled this could feed a party of 5 for a week.

Shield Generator (small 1D) and (medium 2D): Are these intended for ships or persons? What do they do? I can't find a description of their utility.

According to the 1E core rulebook, the rations are concentrated and good for 1 week.  That's 7 breakfast units, 7 lunch units, 7 dinners, 14 desserts, and 14 snacks.  Remember the stick that Yoda picks up from Luke during Episode V?  All of this is concentrated, many of it in pill form or food sticks.




Nutrients for 3 squares a day, plus deserts and snacks, for 7 days.  That's only 28 credits per day--under 10 credits per meal, including snacks and desserts.

I'd say that 200 credits for one person for a week is about right.

We can see from the screen shot that the concentrated rations are mostly sticks, with some food cubes and what looks like dietary supplement pills.

I'd say that your players got a deal!  Maybe you could correct this next session by allowing one of your players to find out the food boxes (shown above) are out of date!  They're old Clone Wars surplus, more than 20 years old!







Let's not forget the "food portions" shown in Episode VII.  Remember that muffin thing that blows up real quickly in that scene with Rey eating.













For most equipment that you don't recognize, you've got to think back to the original trilogy.  How was such stuff depicted in those three films?

Notice in the Sourcebook that the part with the Shield Generators also includes Power Fence Generators and Fusion Power Generators.  Where did this show up in the movies?  Episode V.  The Rebel Base on Hoth.

Those Shield Generators are meant to cover the base and small sections of the planet.  The scale is that of starfighters.

[Zulgyan]

According to the 1E core rulebook, the rations are concentrated and good for 1 week.

Do you have the page number? 200 for one week of food is still quite quite expensive! Maybe food in SW is indeed expensive, as it is in any war scenario.

Those Shield Generators are meant to cover the base and small sections of the planet. The scale is that of starfighters.

But what do the 1D and 2D values mean? Do they add to the shields of spaceship? To the strength roll of a character or the resistance roll of a vehicle? Do they get used up? How do they work? Maybe GMs have to make this up?

[boot]

May 25, 2019 20:30:04 GMT -6 Zulgyan said:

According to the 1E core rulebook, the rations are concentrated and good for 1 week.

Do you have the page number? 200 for one week of food is still quite quite expensive! Maybe food in SW is indeed expensive, as it is in any war scenario.

Those Shield Generators are meant to cover the base and small sections of the planet. The scale is that of starfighters.

But what do the 1D and 2D values mean? Do they are to the shield of spaceship? To the strength roll of a character or the resistance roll of a vehicle? Do they get used up? How do they work? Maybe GM's have to make this up?

The rations are in the charts in the back of the core rule book.

There is no description, if that is what you are looking for.  But, the core rulebook does say "concentrated", and there is the scene shown above from Episode V.

You think 9.5 credits per concentrated meal is expensive?

I just ate dinner at an excellent Mexican food place--fairly expensive, and it cost me $34 bucks--that's just with Tea and the entree.  I'd say a lower priced meal would cost about half that, $15 bucks, with tax and tip.

THESE MRE'S from AMAZON cost $39.08 for 6 meals--that's two days, if eating three times a day.



I've never used planetary shields in a game, but I assume they work just like any other shield.  Read the starship combat section of the core rulebook.

[boot]

I see that planetary shields are discussed on pages 13-14 of Hideouts & Strongholds.

And THIS FANMADE BOOK has a section on shields, both personal and planetary.  See pages 44-47.

[Zulgyan]

You think 9.5 credits per concentrated meal is expensive?

I just ate dinner at an excellent Mexican food place--fairly expensive, and it cost me $34 bucks--that's just with Tea and the entree. I'd say a lower priced meal would cost about half that, $15 bucks, with tax and tip.

THESE MRE'S from AMAZON cost $39.08 for 6 meals--that's two days, if eating three times a day.

I might be biased by the price of rations in D&D, and that in Argentina food is cheap.

[boot]

The Star Wars universe does seem to have its own economic system that is not quite akin to modern day Earth. The Imperial credit, on the one hand, seems to be worth more than a US dollar. I tend to think of it like a British pound.

Casual clothes, for example, from the Sourcebook, cost 75 credits. If that is an entire outfit, including shoes, then that 75 credits goes a long way.

Yet, 50 meters of power fence only costs 100 credits--as much as a suit of work clothes or formal clothes!

In fact, all of these items cost 75 credits: Business clothes, vibrosaw, fusion cutter, and a bayonet.

I just accept the prices as given and move on.