On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:41 AM, David Scheidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think that's more of a cultural setting detail than something >> inherent to the progress of technology. Same goes for mini-facturing. >> Both are possible at TL10, but whether they're common and, in the case >> of surveillance, accepted, is something that has to be decided for >> that specific setting. > > I think it's inherent in being TL10. Otherwise, you're TL7 with > spaceships and rayguns, and might as well play Traveller. Hey, this is GURPS. If people want to play "might-as-well-be-Traveller" with a cultural landscape from the Fifties plus Rayguns and Spaceships at TL10, they should be able to. Which is why the books recommend that each individual GM decide what "Tech Level 10" means for that campaign, and make a small effort to describe the culture of that setting. You're mixing your (or at least a specific setting's) expectations of what TL10 means with the general concept of tech levels. Now, the expectations of this specific settting we're talking about might match yours, but "TL10" does not equal "pervasive surveillance and minifacs" for all games. -- Bira http://compexplicita.wordpress.com http://compexplicita.tumblr.com _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
