Condottiere wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:06 pm

For societies where property inheritance and line of succession within family lines is an issue, the one sure thing is who is anyone's mother.

Yes. Everybody knows that. But what's your point?

Condottiere wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:59 pm

Matrilineal was a primitive alternative to a paternity test,

Errr... no. That sentence makes no sense on any level.

I also don't see what you meant to achieve by your posting.

For those of you who have both the new Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 1 and the MgT Zhodani module: Is there anything substantially new in the former as compared to the latter? Content-wise (not artwork & stats) I mean.

Sigtrygg wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:07 pm

Here are the ones I have linked:

Could you distill what you learned about the Zhodani from these? Or link to timestamps in the videos, if you still remember? I'm an impatient person.

The Fifth Frontier War can be simply about the Zhodani attempting to establish a Neutral Zone between themselves and the Imperium. Nothing else. No Waves, Empress or otherwise. The biggest metaplot event that you need is the War. It doesn't have to be part of some other Big Cosmic Event which will ...

- What body parts of a clothed Zhodani can you never touch without their permission? - How do the Tavrchedl' deal with someone coming out as trans or non binary? I don't know about touching body parts. But one thing I would not touch, if I were you, is that last question. Because that would require...

Imeanunoharm wrote:Another species transposed and modified by the ancients?

I give you the tardigrade:

Dayum! Maybe the analogies to "primitive animals" I mentioned above weren't false after all!

Recall that the GT book is set in roughly 1117, on the other side of a Frontier War. Mongoose has stated before that their books are all set in 1104-1105, so some events and revelations we old fans are used to simply haven't triggered yet. The GT Zhodani book did not contain major events or revelat...

Ok, we disagree about Pulver's aliens (and yes, I know these are his Spacemaster aliens but does not defeat the point that we could be dealing with a species capable of metamorphism and hence two radically different civilizations of the same species - think what butterflies/frogs would have in comm...

And, maybe, we could be dealing with a sentient being that is capable of metamorphism? Hence both could be accurate but told from a different point of view. But, if I were to cast my vote, I liked the GURPS version more. Sorry DonM yours were too close what has already been written and GT broke the...

I voted for "The Mongoose Addaxur is more interesting and is canon", but my actual stance is "The Mongoose Addaxur are more interesting but I couldn't care less which one is canon".

Here is another article on the same topic: With pictures!

http://www.brazosport.edu/sites/Current ... Plants.pdf

Also consider that the color of the sky itself will be different on other worlds:

http://www.xenology.info/Xeno/5.4.2.htm

GamingGlen wrote:Reading the preview it says Aramis has a corrosive atmosphere, but the UWP is showing "8" which is a Dense atmosphere and breathable.

Another scan error, I'd assume. Originally it was a B, misread by the scanner software as an 8.

Classic Traveller was far more imaginative in its sizing - it went up to 32,000kg if I remember correctly? My own MGT table now goes up to 180,000kg which allows for animals larger than the largest ever earth animal - the blue whale - pretty likely I would think on a low-G world. I always liked the...

The Classic HG ship design system is not broken. It's fairly simple, yet offers a nice range of options. In addition to what rust said, one thing to keep in mind: The sizes of maneuver and jump drive are basically switched when compared to MGT's system (which was derived from the original LBB2): Cla...

Distance from the central worlds of the Consulate, isolation and time. Not a conspiracy; The Zhodani do not set up isolated colonies without a proper infrastructure. In any case, non of this answers any of the questions. a natural evolution. I do not think this word means what you think it means. T...

That actually is a sterling example of "increasingly bizarre". And it doesn't make an ounce of sense: - How would these "mutations" not be detected as early as the embryonic stage? - How and why would these "mutations" develop? - Why would they mysteriously afflict large masses of people? - Even if ...

Some thoughts I had on this: IIRC the TNE (or TNE:1248) stated that the Wave was moving at light-speed, slow but steady. The Consulate is not mentioned previously as being impacted until TNE (Bearers of the Flame) time, so if it is 1105, doesn't this mean the Wave is about 100LY (~33 hexes) away at...

All this time, and people have been looking for ever-more complicated magic to explain the Empress Wave. Telepathy. Yaskoydray. Ancient Artifacts. Yeah, so? At least it's somewhat grounded in canon, if not exactly in common sense. Consider the philosophy of Nihilism. Once it grips you, it's very ha...

the name 'chilling thought' is potentially a perfectly accurate description. Ideas and memes are pernicious, infectious and often destructive. In a society of telepaths, considerably more so, especially with the Tavrchedl acting a mental 'dirty needle' to spread it around whilst trying to find out ...