It seems clear from the description that the Boarding Shield provides cover (DM-2 against ranged attacks) while the attacking by leaning out from behind the shield to shoot, just like being behind a wall. The 2nd paragraph of the Hiding rules states: ". . . if an enemy is aware of the Traveller’s pr...

What makes this a TL 11 design? The boat should be TL 1 and the trailer about TL 5.

Most "stretched" airplanes are redesigned and built as new planes. Private owners sometimes rebuild smaller airplanes, like my brother adding floats to his plane and extending the wings and replacing the engine with a more powerful one to compensate for the increased weight and drag. These modificat...

I strongly doubt that the hidden pirate base is a true Class B starport by the High Guard definition. No matter how good a pirate is he is not going to be able to finance, build, and staff such a huge project. If he somehow did pull that off, then why would he bother being a pirate when he is pullin...

If you have a new GM running the game I would suggest starting with a much simpler scenario than Pirates of Drinax. High and Dry is a good place to begin to allow the Gm to become familiar with the rules and setting. It will also set much more realistic expectations for what a Traveller game is like...

AnotherDilbert wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:41 pm

Computer m/4 bis? Do you mean a m/5 bis?

I believe that number is based on the T5 rules. The Mongoose equivalent would be about a /20 bis.

Both the Neural Comm and Wafer Jack are cheap enough to come with the Ruggedised option while still being below the Cr. 50,000 cost limit. There is nothing in the rules that says that augmentations from benefit rolls cannot have optional upgrades added. As a GM, so long as the TL and cost limits are...

It is a common trope in Science Fantasy that psi powers can communicate faster than light. Using the Traveller psionics rules the distance cost for interstellar communications would put it far out of reach for even the most powerful psions, but devices (very rare and very expensive devices) could bo...

How about a custom chart where you roll 1d6 and on a 2 or higher discover that you are actually the True Heir of the Alkhalikol Dynasty and become the Emperor of the Third Imperium, are given sole control of all eleven Imperial fleets based in the Spinward Marches and a monthly stipend of 100 billio...

What's "common" here? There are specialised military weapons that carry much danger for the operator unless precautions are taken when firing. In the absence of weapons control law and rad shielding on even Gazelles and Broadswords, why doesn't every free trader carry a particle beam? Because the w...

Some common sense needs to be applied here. The rules for the Radiation weapon trait in the CRB are intended for the FGMP heavy weapon that actually "fires what amounts to a directed nuclear explosion". Spaceship weapons (except the fusion gun), do not work like that. A particle beam generates the r...

Most Traveller weapons do not create lasting radioactivity. Only neutron radiation can make other objects radioactive. Space-based particle beams weapons must use neutrons rather than protons or electrons to avoid beam scatter (interestingly, in an atmosphere the opposite is true), so it can have mo...

My calculator says 3.552397868561278863232682060391%. You're welcome.

As a general rule, military ships have jump-4 or higher, while civilian ships have jump-3 (rare) or less. I could see a luxury passenger liner with jump-4 but freight gets too expensive if moved in high jump number ships. Some areas where inhabited stars are far apart might have exceptions to the ge...

At 600m a grav bike travelling at a speed of 180km/hour would only move about 1mm in the time it would take the laser beam to reach it. Evading or not the G/Bike might as well be sitting still for all the difference it would make to a laser weapon. Edit: Thinking more on this, the true problem is no...

Old School wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 01, 2019 3:27 pm

Shipping people out of Browne makes sense, but a freighter with massive cargo decks with very high ceilings makes that very inefficient.

Spread the cargo out evenly and haul the people on top of the cargo. But really, the Fast Drug plan is the best way to haul a whole bunch of people cheaply.

Yes, they would eagerly take that deal. Then they would take their new riches and disappear, probably taking the ship with them. Pirates who have been successful long enough to train their skills up to those levels would have no respect for anyone dumb enough to throw that kind of cash around while ...

Depot (De 1613) possesses a Technology Level of TL–16 or TL-G in Hexadecimal Notation. Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Personal holovideo and personal meson communicators. Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Miniature super-batteries, collectors, and adv...

Advancing their technology level is the key to the ability to control their own system. TL4 is about the minimum, as radio will allow the transmission of sensor alerts and allow a coordinated defense against any attacks. If they are truly xenophobic, most of the improvements can be restricted to the...

There are a lot of good ideas for converting a freighter into a fair warship, but they will require months or years in a shipyard and eliminate any cargo capacity. What if those options are unacceptable? Say you are the Captain of a heavy freighter and need to keep hauling cargo to make the mortgage...