My solution to this was to divide the cost of ships by ten, but to increase prices of things like fuel, maintenance, docking fees etc so to balance out. This results in a more "firefly" feel where you're working to keep the ship flying, not working to pay the mortgage. I talk about it here: http://f...

I sort of rebelled at the line "Nothing of interest here". This is a whole world, a whole system! If your campaign is say, a sandbox of the Bowman Arm, this is one of the dozen or so worlds in your campaign. I felt it was very wrong to just write it off like that. I guess the adventure just wanted t...

Murder on Arcturus Station could be modified to be on a passenger ship. Have the murder happen the first day of jump, so there's a nice claustrophobic feel as the passengers and crew are all trapped with each other. Have a good read of it first, you'll want to make some prep, choose who the murderer...

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Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:12 am

Who runs Star Town?

Master Blaster runs Star Town.

due to the walkers being both great walkers and very fit Oh! Sorry I had thought you had said the opposite of that. For "great walkers, very fit", I'd expect 3.5 to 4 mph, especially if the walk is as short as 1 hour. I.e. my regular lunch time walk is 3.3 miles, which I do in 55 minutes, i.e. 3.5 ...

* 2.9 mph is actually a fairly respectable pace. This works out at 4.6 km per hour. Google maps assumes you walk at 4 km per hour when working out how long it will take you to walk from point A to point B. * 23 minutes is *way* too short for a charity walk. Most charity walks in my experience, i.e. ...

Note that the missiles in TNE were not kinetic: Their warheads were (nuclear) bomb-pumped xray lasers. They maneuvered into the same hex as the target and detonated.
The theory being that a kinetic kill missile was too easy to dodge/take out with point defence, to be of use in combat.

If it was a little bit leaky, and some of the atmosphere was leaking out, wouldn't the O2 in that rust the hull?

Also remember that in TNE, one space round was 30 minutes. So this is that G force for the entire 30 minutes, not a spike at the bottom of your dive.
G-couches, G-suits both mitigated the penalties involved, so for instance with both, you could pull 3Gs (for 30 minutes!) with no ill effect.

That's the figurative combat ship. Well they said Littoral combat ship, but it spent so long in development and was redesigned so many times that "figurative" seems more accurate :) The problem with TCS, or any wargame where you spend points or money on your army/navy/gibbering hordes, is that pract...

Ah so you effectively skipped Mode 1 straight to Mode 2 In a previous thread I pointed out how starship mortgages have APRs that make today's house buyers green with envy. I think I mentioned picturing a bunch of heavily armed murder hobos entering the bank: "So you want to take out a loan eh? With ...

I presume MgT. One thing I have noticed is that there seems to be 2 "modes" of operation in speculative trade. Mode 1: The initial stages, when the PCs are cash-poor. The PCs are forced to buy either small amounts of high value cargo, or large amounts of marginal cargo. Passengers, freight, mail mak...

If the canon is TL-8, surely it's more like the current crop of 120mm guns? WWII would be TL-6

As others have said, it is a roleplaying game, whereas those other games you mentioned are wargames. Traveller has wargaming aspects, and previous editions had full blown wargaming offshoots, but Traveller itself is an RPG.

I'm not sure how an interest of 4% is accurate. Nor is the idea of 20% down. The bankers that are running these mortgages are thieves. Thieves? They're freakin Santa claus! Just think about it for a minute. A group of four very disreputable looking people walk into a VERY SERIOUS bank. They check t...

In TNE, which had reactrion drives as standard, it was the same "fuel", for jump drives, power plants, and reaction *mass*. The reaction drive doesn't use the liquid hydrogen as fuel (except in that it powers the fusion plant that powers the reaction drive), the drives runs off electricity and shove...

Ah ok, using Mdrive tech as an indicator of grav compensation is a good rule of thumb.
Hadn't thought of using Mdrives *and* reaction drives.

In previous editions (Ok in TNE) the amount of thrust that grav plates could counter depended on TL It was TL-9 if I recall, so at TL-10 you could only counter 1G with grav plates. Say you have a TL-12 ship. It can compensate 3 Gs. Pulling 1G: No problem, the crew doesn't notice, down is still down....

Life support is based on Stateroom, be it occupied by crewmember, middle, or high passenger (edit: or unoccupied). Low Berths also incur a life support cost, occupied or not. I imagine this is basically to streamline it rather than have the players go "Ok, so we had 6 low berths occupied last time o...

The cost per person is the cost to the passenger, not to the ship! The only cost to the ship is life support, fuel etc that you would be paying anyway. So for instance, if I am a free trader with 6 passenger staterooms. The cost to me of having them occupied by 6 passengers is the same as the cost o...