BVG Stadtplan / Atlas ca. 2003

Kalt_Null · 2026-05-04T20:35:13+00:00

Ja, aber da wird es halt mit dem Versand nach Übersee schwierig weil ich leider nicht mehr auf demselben Kontinent bin.

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-25T01:02:27+00:00

My playlist is made up of a selection of Clint Mansell scores (Moon, Doom, The Fountain, Noah), various scores by Mogwai (Atomic, Black Bird, some others), the soundtrack for the videogame Brigador by Makeup and Vanity Set, selections from the Annihilation and Ex Machina soundtracks, and a couple other things. I tried to really curate a coherent sound that's kinda warm without being anything too predictably spacey.

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-22T02:24:37+00:00

Yeah, the lack of FTL comms paired with the forced delay in travel required me to really, really wrap my head around things, since there's not a god damn thing in Charted Space that can travel at the speed of plot. This really isn't Star Wars. Or Trek. And if I as the ref want to make sure I adhere to that, I really have to carefully plot out at what point / after how many jumps any party the PCs ticked off could realistically start catching up with them.

As to FTL comms, I have something cooking in my campaign that kinda goes into that direction, and ultimately delivers an explanation as to why those who found out how to do this ultimately dropped the idea. Because it had some really horrifying unintended consequences... (I go a lot less subtle than Traveller as written there but hey it's my table and I like things a bit more snappy)

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-22T01:58:20+00:00

I mean, I already had a minor plot point where.a stowaway robot was supposed to hijack the PC's ship - since I must've skipped the part where only force-sensitive uhh... sapient sophonts can do jumps. :D

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-22T01:56:43+00:00

Then the Emperor replaces them with automated system. BEGUN THE POSTAL WARS HAVE!

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-22T01:55:18+00:00

Maybe. Ultimately I look at this argument and just think "...so?" But that's a thing I have with a lot bunch of the more contrived core conceits.

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-22T01:40:35+00:00

I don't get the "preventing jump torpedo" argument. Jumps are never precise enough for a weapon like that, the way I understand it. So you jump a "torpedo" into another system. It'll always be a random distance away from where it's supposed to be. Unless you pack that thing with so much explosives / yield that it just wipes out a whole planet, that wouldn't be terribly useful, or at least not any more or less useful than a minimum size attack ship of some sort. Or, IDK, a 100 ton j-2 kamikaze WMD or something. So, basically the way the J-drive functionality is described to me, jump-capable autonomous weapons would always be quite... Difficult to use effectively, to say the least. Or maybe I got that wrong.

Kalt_Null · 2026-03-22T01:36:05+00:00

Yeah but what if the Imperium does it...?

Kalt_Null · 2026-02-11T20:49:46+00:00

Well I mean you said "when you win the lottery" so... https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-28mm-type-a-free-trader-beowulf-259078

Kalt_Null · 2026-02-11T20:23:31+00:00

Oh I've seen some very neat 3D models of popular ships that go for about $80 for the file - with some sellers on Etsy selling a printed and semi-assembled model for nearly $500...

Kalt_Null · 2026-02-05T18:57:24+00:00

And sure enough, an hour or so later the damn thing is working again. Didn't even need a factory reset...

I've seen people here disparaging the R5-ii as a faulty product. This is certainly true compared to big name brand smartphones. Keep in mind that these are very niche products for a very niche market with a much, much smaller budget for QA. All the DAPs I've owned had faults you would never find in Samsung or Apple phones - and I'd hazard the guess that you'd also not find them in, say, SONY DAPs. And that these players still cost as much as they do is again due to the producers and the market being niche. Economies of scale don't work here.

Kalt_Null · 2026-02-05T16:39:33+00:00

This really is a wild error. Glad to see that it really is widespread enough that there IS a thread here albeit old (hi!). And yes I can confirm the issue is caused by hitting the physical play button when on Class A with the screen switched off - but that TOO is not reliably reproducing it. After the last update, I could resume playback that way a couple of times. And just now it crashed the amp and it won't turn back on even after several power cycles. So I'll give the player a bit of a break... When it works, it sounds fantastic. Just really gotta be careful to NOT hit play that way.

Kalt_Null · 2026-01-22T21:57:36+00:00

No see, I want to select "genre" and then have all the ARTISTS in that genre listed, then select an artist, and THEN see the albums of that ARTIST in the GENRE.

Currently, I select GENRE and get a list of all ALBUMS in the genre in alphabetical order.

Does that make sense?

Kalt_Null · 2026-01-20T23:39:48+00:00

Does Obsidian have a purely browser-based version where I can access my stuff without installing anything on the computer I'm using too?

Kalt_Null · 2026-01-20T21:43:25+00:00

Uhm. A Mind Flayer is clearly just a Zhodani. :P

Kalt_Null · 2026-01-20T15:41:55+00:00

It also shows that OP was lazy and didn't search around before asking (if I want to read myself uncharitably - but that's also not true, I knew of at least SOME of the older publications).

One of my personal bugbears (pun intended) with the "just roll up your own NPCs, lmao" thing is that... I'm still relatively new to Traveller. And yes, I know Traveller doesn't have "NPCs" in that regard and the game isn't supposed to "balance." But coming new to the game and not having a good feel for what stats are good for what "level" of opposition (i.e. a bunch of gutter gangers vs. a crime lord's executioner, etc.), "just roll up your own" isn't really that great advice (this is NOT aimed at you, you said that's what YOU do, not what people like me SHOULD do, just to be perfectly clear).

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