RE: [ogf-d20-l] Does it make sense for PCs to make things?

[Brad Thompson]

> Martin L. Shoemaker
>
> Yes, I know Star Wars is about cinema-style action; but now we're
> in a game,
> where stuff happens between the action scenes. It seems like the
> game falls
> short in that regard.

I've read over the SW rules, and I have to say I don't have a problem with
it.  The gap between high-tech items and low-tech items is absolutely huge.

Following this reasoning, I would suggest that building a blaster according
to the rules is pretty much from scratch, whereas if you had a crate of
'spare blaster parts' you could assemble one much faster.  Think of it as
building a computer from scratch with a soldering iron vs. buying the
motherboard, cpu, video card, etc from CompUSA.  One is hard, and would take
80 working days.  The other is EASY, and could be handled in an afternoon.

-Brad