In MgT2E+, what do you roll for Zero-G maneuvering if you're not wearing a VACC Suit?
I've been wondering since 1E, which had a Zero-G skill.
I've been wondering since 1E, which had a Zero-G skill.
MGT Only: Zero-G roll?
- Thread starter Spinward Scout
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Had to Look, it's a Athletics check.
Commander Truestar
SOC-13
IMO, it should be the same with or without a Vacc Suit.
It should be an Athletics check "possibly modified" if the character has a very high (or very low) Dex
The roll should be modified if the player has a vacc suit
.....That may make them more clumsy and thus offer a negative modifier
.....Or may make them more agile, or have a "maneuvering package", and thus offer a negative modifier
It should be an Athletics check "possibly modified" if the character has a very high (or very low) Dex
The roll should be modified if the player has a vacc suit
.....That may make them more clumsy and thus offer a negative modifier
.....Or may make them more agile, or have a "maneuvering package", and thus offer a negative modifier
My perspective is it should still be zero g, you just don’t have suit thrusters.
Athletics doesn’t train you for counterintuitive action/reaction/using walls and grab bars and tethers to move. Unless the character grew up as a spacer/belter, in which case they probably have zero g skill anyway.
For my simplified CT skill set, I ignore both zero g and battle dress and have vacc suit handle both.
Athletics doesn’t train you for counterintuitive action/reaction/using walls and grab bars and tethers to move. Unless the character grew up as a spacer/belter, in which case they probably have zero g skill anyway.
For my simplified CT skill set, I ignore both zero g and battle dress and have vacc suit handle both.
That's my Take too...
Daidoji Dave
SOC-11
The context is that 1e Mong had a Zero G skill, and 2e dropped it and rolled it into Athletics. Basically consolidating two skills that weren't getting used a lot in some campaigns. They made similar changes at the same time, the biggest one being reducing the number of Gun Combat specializations.
At a meta-game level I'm okay with it. Applying simulationism to the point that some skills get rolled every session and others once or twice in a campaign if ever is misguided. If I were running some kind of Belter campaign where I expected ØG to come up a lot I might roll it back to the 1e version though.
It is though. (Possibly excepting penalties for wearing a bulky vac suit unskilled.) I think you got too hung up on Spinward's phrasing.
Just as a bit of history, zero-g combat is a CT skill. It smacks of skillflation, but at the same time maneuvering in zero g is a different skill set.
I was reacting more to the doubling down as Athletics for all. I don’t see the critique re the OP question, he was asking for what roll if in zero g but out of the suit. Straightforward.
I was reacting more to the doubling down as Athletics for all. I don’t see the critique re the OP question, he was asking for what roll if in zero g but out of the suit. Straightforward.
Spinward Flow
SOC-14 1K
Best example of this would be (once again) from PLANETES.
Watch to the end of the episode to get an idea of just how different zero g movement is compared to "normal athletics" in a gravity well.
Sometimes, seeing is believing ...
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