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Originally Posted by Spectacular_Insanity
Personally I was expecting a more steampunk/gearpunk function to the 3DMG (way back before they explained that it required gas), and that it would have worked with clockwork springs or something mechanical that they could reset physically, rather than something like... a gas tank. The fact that characters are always forced to worry about their gas supply is frankly more irritating and distracting than it is tension-inducing.
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I think the author wanted to make the mechanism as much as credible as possible (even though it's application is not). He needed to come up with a power source that could move dozen kilos of mass fast and for a few hours without resorting to something too advanced.
A simple spring mechanism would have challenged my suspension of disbelief even more than it already is.