Starships: Hulls and Space/balls 1. I could be wrong, but my estimate of iron nickel alloy is that it's about two thirds the strength of Krupp armour plating, so twenty three centimetres would be about six inches, and constant atmospheric braking should make the surface case hardened. Very Dieselpu...

Physics plays across the board, it doesn't stop per uses, even military. Nevertheless, the military would like spheres for their external structural stability, compare kicking a ball to a box.

Spheres are good for internal pressurization, as a square will bulge in the center.

Well, it's not simulationist/realist, it's game balancing/meta. A way to let characters of different terms and rolls hang in the same party. It could be stated differently as "after connections gain Jack of all Trades at 4 minus highest skill rank" if the expression was the only problem (though I g...

"Game the rules."
-Eurisko



Space combat could be not so exciting ...

Designing a spacecraft like a WW2 tank is weird. For material thickness, hitting a paint chip at orbital velocities and the resultant spalling sends fragments through the interior of the vehicle. Hit by a missile or beam, the material can explode into a cloud of plasma.

Armor, while it's unrealistic for a variety of reasons, and it seems that it's mostly represented as "material thickness" a design idea rendered obsolete by the British with their development of Chobham Armour; mostly it is passive. The main design philosophy focus should be how the player character...

The simpler solution would be to not have them; there are point defense and ECM as traditional trav systems.

I found with 1e that the easiest way to fix the system was to eliminate armor, and just use the core rules. It was quick, easy, and logical; made combat faster.

If you want the players to have a certain skill, just give it to them. However, the players in the games I run have a tendency to wander around and do things that interest them, and I'll warp the game around that, using the PC's skills and abilities as leads.

My crude yet functional point buy is 42, 7-11. Take 42 points and spend them on the 6 stats, 7 points can go to stats or skills, 11 points to skills, and I'll flesh it out with 0 levels like Vacc. Roll 4d6 + 14 for age, 2d6 x 10,000 for creds; then tell me who you are, want to be a Vargr Pirate? Cool.

The only problem with text messaging is that the tonal qualities of what I'm saying can't be made clear... NIIIiiiiiiiiiiiccccccccceeeeeee! Thanks. :) It was a bit of work mapping and detailing out the closest 125 star systems to Sol/Earth. Right now I have a Traveller group I am running it for, an...

FOUNDATION could easily be a fun endeavor if... ASTROSYNTHESIS were used in conjunction with it... Imagine a 3D stellar Map, using mostly Traveller rules. Wouldn't THAT be something?!!! I have done exactly that with this map pack (download link): http://dragonersdomain.com/forum/download/file.php?i...

Gritty as in realistic?

Except for some of the nobility of course. Not the ones doing the work generally, but the ones who don't have actual jobs. :lol: It's one thing I have eliminated from my current Traveller game, no space nobles and space empire like it's the 18th century. Frilly lace in spaaace! :lol: It's all dead ...

Well, Traveller is basically "Age of Sail in Space"... Just communications, nobody is prancing around in knee breeches and pancake makeup; that is one of the biggest mistakes of how people see traveller, imo. Except for some of the nobility of course. Not the ones doing the work generally, but the ...

It's implied it's a slug, but a gauss bullet could be a fletchette to ensure stability. It's basically the Vietnam era M193 ball bullet, as described in the original Mercenary. Mercenary says: "Gauss Rifle: The ultimate development of the slug thrower, the gauss rifle generates an electromagnetic f...

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Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:38 pm

It's implied it's a slug, but a gauss bullet could be a fletchette to ensure stability.

It's basically the Vietnam era M193 ball bullet, as described in the original Mercenary.

Some things that should be possible - and are IMTU :) cased telescoping ammo - increase number of rounds caseless ammo - increase number of rounds again SNUB pistol warheads available to all slugthrowers accelerator rifle rocket ammo tunable from snub performance to hypervelocity smart version of t...