that's a fair question, in fact - given that the Element Cruiser Naval campaign presumably requires all characters to be serving naval officers of non-flag-rank, how does it do character creation? Skills are outright chosen based on rank/terms/position. You do still roll survival/events for each te...

The package-based character generation in the Traveller Companion is a good answer to this. Otherwise, there are various house rules used to make the system more malleable, some of which were recently talked about in another thread: http://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=122239 Als...

Could be ceremonial jewelry, meant more to be shown than worn on a daily basis? Would explain why it has such a massive gem set in it - and in that case should definitely be a master artisan's work.

I can only help with #1: You don't make an advancement roll if you've gained a commission in that term. (Last line under Commission, P16.)

I was under the impression that the last one you listed was already the case per the usual process of gaining skills with specialties.

#4: Yes. Difficulty defaults to 8 if nothing is listed.

They want more data for their plan, and a main point of the ceremony is to gather influential people to get that data from (via the statue), so Krond is very likely to be on the list. Plus, GeDeCo is a big Imperial company, and he's an Imperial flag officer (however dubiously), so it would be seen a...

A couple of things came to mind reading the thread: Even if you're outside a planetary/solar gravity well, you're still going to be inside the galactic one (barring a record breaking long-distance misjump), so the M-Drive still has something to 'relate' to. This has to happen to some degree, otherwi...

Considering the traditions of Drinax... Is Lord Wrax gone? If he's still around then he'd be the natural choice to command them, and his title would be... the same as it always was, unless Rao chooses to add another one. If Lord Wrax isn't around anymore (for whatever reason) then the title would be...

Re the terminology confusion, RPGs - except for a few that explicitly split them into separate stats - generally roll agility and dexterity (as real-world terms) together under a single stat, which gets game-termed as one of the two. Dexterity is the "traditional" choice, at least among pen-and-pape...

I'm not quite sure what you're asking there? Throwing things is covered by Athletics under both systems. (Athletics/Coordination in 1E and Athletics/Dexterity in 2E.) If you only have the 1E book and maybe misinterpreted the previous post, Athletics still has specializations - they're just straightf...

1E handled difficulty as a modifier to the check with a fixed target number, 2E assigns a target number for difficulty. The math is the same but arrived at differently, but it's worth bearing in mind when translating difficulties and target numbers between editions. Jump mechanics are different beca...

We have very different views about level-scaling in games, so leaving that argument aside, there are two specific problems with doing so in the adventure in question: If Redthane has a battle-capable squadron that can take on multiple high-tech raiders then he probably wouldn't be there in the first...

There'd still be the tradeoff that if you're using your Fire Control for PD, you're not using it to help stop the ship (or whatever) that's actually flinging the missiles your way. In any case, absent applying the laser DM bonus, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't switch over, nor any particula...

High Guard has other energy weapons but only as barbette/bay/spinal mounts. Of the turrets listed there the only new one is the laser drill, so it's still laser-only any which way.

My guess would be that it's an artifact of lasers being the only turret-mount energy weapons in the core book. I don't think that High Guard includes any but if you had turret-mounted energy weapons of some other sort (including particle-based ones) then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to us...

The NPCs shouldn't get to artificially scale up with the PCs or there isn't much point in the PCs actually gaining/improving anything. Ferrik has what he has. If the PCs have four ships to his one, he doesn't get to escape. He knows this, and so will everyone else. That means there's a better-than-a...

The information about the Aslan strikes me as something that would be readily available given the context. Pretty much all of it is basic library stuff for the Trojan Reach, and leaving that aside, you've got the Scholar's Tower, Kasiyl, and all and sundry people who would deal with (or be from) the...

I don't see the need for a bunch of tables for this: the off-camera ship simply generates a certain amount of return on investment (much like unused ship ownership from chargen can). You only need to worry about it beyond that when the story specifically calls for it, such as during the Sun & Shadow...

I hear this "only governments can censor" a lot in the west, and not much in the east. I don't understand where it comes from. When I learned English, the dictionary certainly didn't define censorship as requiring a government. And anyway, the moderators of a community effectively are their communi...