3 minutes ago, Daeglan said:Except it does matter. It is the most important question. Does your tinkering add fun for your players. You seem to keep ignoring that question in your desire to tinker with something . Im telling you play it as written first.
I'm saying yes, it does add fun (If it causes problems I would not use it). I believe that the rules as written, are broken.
Do you agree that the base rules are not good, regardless of what you think the proper solution would be?
1 minute ago, Daeglan said:We are playing in a universe that can manipulate gravity and you are worried about making sense? Tractor beams use handwavium particles to cause the effect. There fixed. We dont know how any of the tech works so it really doesnt need to make sense.
Grrrrr. Manipulate gravity, I say okay. You say this thing the size of a pin can pull a planet out of orbit, and I say, that doesn't make sense (unless you have a really good excuse). Tractor Beams are basically specialized shield projectors (according to the book) shields are limited by power generation, so therefore, size is definitely a factor and the larger the object, the larger the shield needed, so more power is needed. If Star Wars came right out and said, any size of ship can tractor beam a ship of any size, I would except it (to a certain extent) but for now, we have what we see in the movies, the books, and we have our logic.