Re: Black Phlosgiston

At 08:01 1998-02-04 -0800, Spike wrote:
>---Static <eshum@??????.???.com> wrote:
>>
>> 	Wouldn't a doubling of speed -- from SR 1 (17mph) to SR 2 (34mph)
>> -- halve the travel time -- from 5 months to 2.5 months?
>>
>> -Static
>>
>Not in my campaign. I've reason out in my own head that the gnomish
>engine, while being one of the few gnomish inventions that works on a
>regular basis, has a tendency to defeat itself when "supped-up".
>
>Just think about a team of horses pulling a wagon. When two horses
>pull a wagon you get a pretty good top speed out of it. but when you
>add two more horses that top speed doesn't double, it just increases a
>little.

Um... in that case, you should make it harder to *reach* SR 2. SR is
defined as the speed of something, not the "power" of it.
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