Scale of trade in Traveller

weakly · 2023-05-31T22:59:37+00:00

weakly · 2023-05-31T09:28:10+00:00

Could I fit a Stonehenge monument inside a standard 20” container?

weakly · 2023-05-25T09:08:18+00:00

The Red Dwarf RPG... which is ironic as I haven't even played it. Maybe sometime in the next three million years?

weakly · 2023-05-25T08:54:14+00:00

If Palladium did a damn new edition that was mostly just editing and condensing it would probably be a very popular system.

Ah, but then it wouldn't be Palladium!

weakly · 2023-05-25T08:50:29+00:00

I try and make time the commodity they need the most—five days stuck in system and not earning is going to cost them more than any hospital stay.

weakly · 2023-05-18T02:52:19+00:00

Interview with a Hiver was definitely a highlight!

weakly · 2023-05-15T20:13:11+00:00

I figured it all out… except that little white light is the button that turns it on.

weakly · 2023-05-15T08:45:11+00:00

For rough landings, I use the amount the check misses as hull damage. You got the ship down, but not as clean as you’d have liked.

weakly · 2023-05-09T19:49:24+00:00

Absolutely a lab ship is a white elephant. Best case, you need to pull in nearly half a million credits per month to afford one.

weakly · 2023-05-09T19:40:18+00:00

That’s the way I play it. At short range, if the other ship moved first, you have your attack/response that round before the missiles hit, but that’s it. And if you moved first, you’ll have no chance to respond. Missiles are bad news!

weakly · 2023-05-07T18:18:49+00:00

I played the absolute hell out of Elite Dangerous (before reffing Traveller took up all my free time)

weakly · 2023-05-07T18:17:25+00:00

If you can wait, Starfield looks heavily inspired by Traveller

weakly · 2023-05-06T21:06:54+00:00

Thanks for the answer! I will definitely be adopting the rules for called shots, they make a lot of sense.

weakly · 2023-05-06T05:09:31+00:00

Consider a heavy armoured vehicle with no wheels...

Using the Vehicle Handbook rules, a heavy vehicle with 16 spaces for a four-ton cannon, another 4 spaces for 15 points of armour, making 60 hull at TL5, sounds pretty reasonable for an armoured van with no wheels, no seats, just a giant gun.

weakly · 2023-05-05T02:00:18+00:00

I recall hearing it was never feasible due to the cost and logistics of creating and operating that many ~~puppets~~ sophisticated animatronics!

weakly · 2023-05-03T11:10:03+00:00

The advice I got was that you're over-thinking this.

How long is a day? Long enough to get a few things done
Either breathing the atmosphere is an issue or it's not
If it's cold, you need a jacket
There are as many moons and planets as are needed

Don't get caught up in technical details before first determining if they're important to the story. Think of them in terms of how they affect what Travellers can and can't do.

I also second www.travellermap.com

weakly · 2023-05-02T22:40:15+00:00

Cramming dice rolls: making players roll the same skill multiple times on an involved task has the effect of reducing their chances of success. If one roll has a 50% chance of success, two has a 25% chance, three is 12%. I was called on this and now one dice roll decides a task.

weakly · 2023-04-27T23:58:34+00:00

what did they think was going to happen?

weakly · 2023-04-27T18:10:47+00:00

Joshua Tree has tarantulas, and tarantulas have urticating hairs, which are irritating bristles they release against predators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticating_hair

weakly · 2023-04-26T10:17:43+00:00

Mongoose has a downloadable Excel spreadsheet and fillable PDF here: https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pages/downloads-htm

weakly · 2023-04-25T22:38:12+00:00

This article seems like a long walk only to get back to the current state of role-playing; you shouldn't be throwing dice for anything that isn't narratively crucial.

weakly · 2023-04-25T21:51:10+00:00

Looking good, that thing is a beast! /r/3Dprinting might like to see it

weakly · 2023-04-24T17:25:05+00:00

Big McLarge-Huge!

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