Recently
I had two PCs who were exploring the hinterlands of an island on
Tifur. This island was inhabited by large reptilian creatures - dinosaurs. They came upon one such hostile beast, about the size of a
bull elephant – 14,000 kg.
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| Oh lucky you. You encountered a T-Rex. |
Wrong.
Their
ATV had an Auto-Rifle in a mount on top. The dino appeared at long
range, and even at speed 3 it took it three rounds to close in on the
PCs. By then the Auto-Rifle had filled it full of lead. [Auto-Rifle
vs. Jack armor is +6 to hit; in effect, an auto-hit. And two throws
to hit each combat round.]
So now
the PCs have this dead dino. What to do with it? There's no way they
could have butchered it and saved even a tenth of the dino meat. So
they decided instead to skin it.
The
PCs returned to the logging camp and the port town with 700 kg worth
of dino hide. This presented me with another problem. How do I
determine how much a dino skin is worth?