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Originally Posted by natehale1971
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I have been trying to get a T2k game going, and had someone had asked about the possiblity of their character having an off-road Recreation Vehicle. Now this is pretty interesting since the character they are thinking of playing is an embedded journalist... and the RV would have the equipment for them to do their job (sat upload equipment, battery rechargers, ect) that the three person embedded journalist team would be using.
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Are we talking regular V1 or v2x Twilight:2000, in Europe in the year 2000? If so I doubt the situation would exist as you're describing it. I absolutely agree that at the start of the war there would have been western journalists embedded with NATO units in the European theater but post-large scale strategic and tactical nuking, how could they do their jobs in the manner which we would understand them today? Satellite upload equipment? What satellites? By 2000 there are only a handful of satellites still functioning and I doubt they would be available for private, commercial use. The only major western nation in 2000 with an intact economy and society is France, I guess they would still have wide-circulation newspapers and TV stations and other media outlets. But in countries like the UK and the USA any surviving media outlets would be very local, most likely hardcopy newsletters or the occasional radio station.
I don't see a problem with any given character having an RV, soldiers from all sides would have gathered a vast assortment of various non-military vehicles along the way. As a GM I would happily substitute any vehicle rolled on the starting vehicle lists with a reasonable equivalent if that was what the players wanted. One of the PCs in my last campaign was a German salvager and he started the game with a VW Kombi. I just think that all the private media embedded journalists in Europe would have been sent home years before 2000, drafted, killed or become some kind of bizarre freelance latter-day troubadors or town criers. And if the latter, how long do you think it would be before a military unit they were with or encountered noticed all the useful stuff in their nice shiny RV and confiscated it?