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May I post a suggestion?: I design some ships for players on the basis that not all the features are fitted at sale, and thus the price is different. If you wish to implement this I suggest you have a 'Retrofit?' button on item. The button only charges 5% of the item's price but allots its tonnage. ...

When a PC comes into possession of a starship it is registered at the ship's home port (Flag Country in real world terms). They also get a set of papers signed and ratified by the seller. If we continue to extrapolate of how ships transfer ownership it means the noble is up against the Imperial Bure...

I think it might be a good idea for GMs to decide whether the Imperial Navy polices all systems. I would think that this would not be an even rule and that many powerful systems maintain control of their in-system space, or even have a power-sharing agreement.

As noted above we need to know the culture, government and policing set up. In Australia now the policeman would be reprimanded for not informing the police service that there was a crime in process. The policeman had no idea if it was a simple break and enter or a murder attempt. The policeman woul...

You'd generally convert a freighter or liner, or carry porta-cabins, or buy the standard model. Purpose built lab ship implies big budget or highly specialised equipment is needed. I think such a ship would likely be custom built or fitted out for 1 specific type of research. Real-world Oceanograph...

You're underestimating the compatibility of 1e and 2e. You can use the original career books with 2e with very little problem, and deal with any skill discrepancies on the fly. What do you mean by "unviable characters"? I just had a 'fun' experience Chargenning a Mongoose v1 PC, I was doing it for ...

Just found it on the Mongoose site; the place I should have gone to first.

Odd that version two never had those career books, but with the propensity for version one to make unviable characters I guess they didn't want to go there again.

I'm trying to see if there's career expansion books for Traveller v2. However I can't tell on DriveThru which edition is which. I got fooled the first time I went there and bout the first edition stuff when I wanted second edition, DriveThru doesn't differentiate between the two. is there anywhere t...

Anything that's part of the spaceship manifesto, only requires forty years to pay it off. Plus interest. Not accounting for the Wand of Wonder, the Locker of Ships. This I had to put a stop to this right away. The players ran out of money for the tramp freighter and started to sell of stuff like ex...

You can't nail down anti gravity in Traveller. It appears to be mostly plot driven. All things to all sophonts. I know I'm stating your subtext, but it's exactly this that makes it impossible for a GM to look the players in the eyes and say "you can't use a grav vehicle on this planet, it will have...

The big move now in commercial-exploratory and military vehicles is 'modularity'. Luckily, Traveller's design system favours this as you can easily assign different systems into your ATV and assume there is facilities onboard your ship or in a settlement to swap these out. This means the players sho...

Condottiere wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2019 6:54 pm

They're not Demon Princes who can get together, arbitrarily decide to raid some remote planet, and then disregard the consequences.

Jack Vance reference noted

Moppy wrote: ↑

Thu May 30, 2019 6:17 pm

laser communications and the sky is never clear?

Oh, they were supposed to be separate environments and not one weird-ass one (although looking at it that'd make an interesting planet)

Some times you just need player characters quickly, and in those circumstances having players come up with dud PCs who got injured in their first term is not really an option. Now please, don't think I'm disparaging the player character generation. Some times I like to just try my hand and see what ...

One of the regrets I've had about my long traveller experience is that it's I've had few experiences of truly alien worlds. In the main it's been spaceship gaming interspersed with bar-hopping. The few on-world adventures have often been 'sunny Tuesday afternoon on earth with odd critters' worlds. S...

Modern ships with very small crews have one big advantage, they are on Earth not relatively far from anywhere. Help will be there long before the food runs out and there's plenty of air all around. Only a corporation with lawyers and accountants saying it's worth the risk will let their ships run i...

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Thu May 23, 2019 2:04 pm

The Traveller companion has a chapter on starship automation, with rules to reduce crew requirements up to 40%.

Is that a Mongoose publication?

If I wanted to recreate the Nostromo from the movie Alien I'd need to have a very small crew. I was wondering if anyone has looked at crew reduction and how they did it? It just seems to me that the enormous amount of engineers and so on don't really reflect current technology trends. (Yes, I know T...