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StarWarsFFG System for Foundry VTT.
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Vehicle navicomputer #1164

Closed DenWav closed 12 months ago

DenWav commented 1 year ago

I don't see a spot on the vehicle sheet for where to specify if the ship has a navicomputer or not. Am I looking at this the wrong way or just missing it? Or do we just put that in the bio?

Rysarian commented 1 year ago

It does not have a specific field for it. Been a while since I played Star Wars specifically, but does the navicomputer have any sort of mechanical effect, like bonuses to rolls?

Myrathi commented 1 year ago

TL;DR - Mechanically, the lack of both a navicomputer and astromech droid is +3 difficulty dice to a hyperspace calculation, so I'd say that it's definitely something that should be tracked? I got around the lack of it by creating and adding attachments for "Navicomputer" and "Astromech Droid" as required (with the associated rules in the descriptions) but a toggle value would certainly be useful.

-- More info, if anyone cares... :D

Whether a ship has a navicomputer, or not, is pretty much just a boolean yes/no and is listed in books' ship stat-blocks as "Navicomputer: Yes" or "Navicomputer: None". Unless specialised, ships with navicomps tend to be silhouette 4+ or are small enough starfighters to have an astromech droid (which can effectively replace a navicomp).

There are rules in Fully Operational for installing hyperdrives (aside-block at the bottom of p82) but navicomputers are never mentioned (or, at least, not that I can find whilst skimming it again) and hyperdrives are attachments. There are no prices anywhere, in any book that I could find, for navicomps. They're a "you have them or you don't" and that's kinda supported by the "Navicomputer Failure" vehicle critical hit, where it states "if no hyperdrive, nav systems fail instead" inferring that without a hyperdrive, there's never a navicomputer.

Most interestingly, perhaps, is that even though the book statblocks list navicomps, there's no space on any of the official vehicle sheets to list that information? That seems to have been an error in the sheet design, for sure.

wrycu commented 12 months ago

Done, will be released in 1.802. Thanks for the suggestion and rationale.