Condottiere wrote:Wouldn't bother making orbital defence platforms below a hundred tonnes.

I'd make them whatever the minimum size is to chuck a spinal mount on it

Couldn't you use the regular ship building rules?

I mean, what is an orbital weapons platform if not a big non-streamlined hull with a spinal weapon and a bridge?

A little bit of maneuvre drive to tweak the orbit when necessary and done, right?

r/Traveller is pretty active with 1000 or so subscribers.

I see no reason why a spinal mount sized weapon couldn't be mounted on a space station? Think this beauty from Final Fantasy 7 which was used to blow the head off of some kind of giant monster - but IN SPAAAACE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaMDtD2QwV0 I suppose the problem is that it then lacks ...

It reads like a mistake to me. If you drop that one sentence it all reads fine. No idea what the intent was, but if I has to guess, I'd say that the experience level table on the opposite page at one point listed skill levels differently. In any case, the sentence makes no sense in the context of th...

Wherever they end up, something should happen. Even if you narrate that it's been MONTHS or even longer and then.... SOMETHING. they pick something up on the sensors, they find an ice comet they can fuel up from, an asteroid belt, a derelict to siphon -- SOMETHING. Unless it seems a fitting or conve...

The Effect is the roll minus the difficulty. A failure is a negative Effect. See p59. The house rule in the OP is not unreasonable, but I would avoid it since I fear it would slow down combat. Or, just apply effect of any kind to damage - roll damage and the attack at the same time. Effect 0? No ch...

It doesn't make anything deadlier. It's not an apposed skill check, but a check to parry the attack. If the defenders parry is successful than the attack fails, period. This has the effect of making melee combat longer and more drawn out, which is the point. Like I said, I only use this for epic ba...

I treat the parry reaction as a separate skill roll divorced from the attack roll. If I could change anything about the system, it would be this, making reactions an active roll. Outside of combat it's all opposed checks, so I see no reason why combat should be any different.... although the vagari...

Sources close to Mongoose (Nerhesi) maintained that Skill + Characteristic DM should be used. What if your characteristic DM is negative? EDIT: I checked the 1st ed. book, both the parrying and shield entry, and they are exactly the same. Almost word for word. If you don't have a characteristic DM ...

I do not think a naked skill level is supposed to be used, so this implies that DexDM should be added. (Compare with spacecraft dodging.) What makes you say this? Spacecraft "dodging" is worded the same way, "the pilot's skill". My reading is that it is only the skill level that applies. Dodging ac...

Is this intentional? I know I could easily house rule the additional skill rolls back in but I fear breaking some intended balance if I were to do that. Our group made rolls in first term as per the lack of instruction NOT to on page 16. Only the chart implies that you shouldn't, and I do think it'...

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Annatar Giftbringer wrote:Got mine today! (Sweden)

It looks and feels amazing!
I think I have to get the other books in hardback too after looking at this one...

Aww man now I'm all impatient for mine to arrive.

Shipping to Australia always takes just long enough for one to experience maximum anxiety/discomfort.

ex-spouses make great adventure fodder.

Hell, even CURRENT spouses make great adventure fodder.

"He went WHERE with WHO now??"
or
"Fancy seeing you here.... hows work?"

This is the reason I describe Traveller as Mid Life Crisis Roleplaying. I have never heard it called that before but it is quite funny. :lol: It's my favourite thing about it too. A team of bitter, middle-aged wash-outs with nothing to show for their long careers other than a trail of people they t...

Could we clarify what all of the different Pirates products are - there are LOADS scheduled! I see: The Pirates of Drinax Traveller Editing February April Pirates of Drinax: Ship Encounters Traveller Layout February - Pirates of Drinax: Shadows of Sindal TravellerEditing February - Pirates of Drinax...

Nice!

Do we get notifications when pre-orders ship?

I notice some updates on the upcoming releases page too (lots of pirates stuff and an Aslan bit?)

Rught here on the store page for the core book

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/rpgs/ ... ebook.html

Well, fair point, but equally savage worlds is a much more heroic system (nothing wrong with that - but it does mean that what works with one system might not work with another) Very true. It's not game-breaking by any means - as opposed to giving high DEX characters more actions which just seems w...