A truly epic tale.

I must say, though, that a starship crew that relies on their cat cooperating with expectations to do anything at the time and place you they Expect is, unfortunately, doomed. Source: have owned half a dozen or so cats, including two rescue kitten currently.

Linwood wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2020 12:38 pm

The weight of the complete gun (w/o tripod) is 84 lbs. The barrel itself is 24 lbs. Even firing blanks that’s a handful.

Good thing we’re talking about Rambo, then.

Condottiere wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:55 pm

I suspect Rambo would have trouble hip firing a fifty calibre.

Even if its loaded with blanks?

I dislike the TNE ruleset, but really like the setting. I’d enjoy a star viking campaign using MgT2 rules.

I play in a Pirates of Drinax campaign where we don't even track fuel/life support/maintenance/mortgage costs any more. My character did some extensive trading at the beginning and showed that he can easily make more than enough to cover expenses so we just assume that he is trading in the backgrou...

Good stuff, paltrysum. We had a blast with Demons Eye, even though it can be more of a railroad than most traveller adventures. And the Ktiyhui class courier is an awesome little ship, if you don’t need cargo room. A 200 ton ship with jump 3 and 12 points of armor? Yes please. Rip out that luxury su...

@Old School 1) The psion on Hroal Irontooth's payroll is mentioned, rather oddly, only in the background story of Marine Salvesdes of Treasure Ship . Salvesdes is said to be conditioned to Hroal, after a brief battle between the two, in which Hroal overpowered Salvesdes despite his battle dress. Af...

And yes, AndrewW is correct, I did write The Glorious Empire . I hope you all enjoy it when it comes out. Old School was a proofreader on the project (and inspired dozens of additional ideas during its development), so if anything is wrong with it, we can blame him. So we can't enjoy it before it c...

Ian Stead is active on here, username middenface, and also on the Mongoose Traveller Facebook group.

Random thoughts: 1) I don’t recall Hroal also having a psion in his crew. Where is this mentioned? Couldn’t find it in the book. I did come across his uplifted Ape having two different names. 2) In my campaign, Hroal died rather loudly at the hands of a no name NPC Vespexer Mercenary wielding A PGMP...

Don’t know about the core rulebook ships as much, but the high guard ships are riddled with dozens of errors.

AD’s link in the post above is the best effort I’ve seen at correcting them.

Does anyone know of a space station design spreadsheet similar to the one that’s available for starship design? I used the google sheets spreadsheet that bluekeirnan made several years ago. His last version was 1.9, I think. I’ve updated it to include some of the spacestation options and correct a ...

Just checked on PC. Same files. Pictures appear in Adobe on my PC, but not in Safari or Goodreader on my iPad.

Just downloaded Book 1 from drivethrurpg again. Pictures still aren’t there.

Well then, back to drivethru I go.

Huh, I never really noticed, but I don’t have those pictures in my PDFs either.

While we have Michael/Martin here with us, I’d like to add that I finished his “Shadow of the Storm: A Story of the Solomani Rim” last night. Enjoyable Traveller fiction. Highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Storm-Story-Solomani-Rim-ebook/dp/B01DCR0NXG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Shadow+...

Officers in combat units get a rifle too, so that doesn’t make sense.

Everyone knows that Gun Combat 4 with a scoped rifle and and hard cover is good times. The first time that the players come up with a Carouse-Persuade-Gamble task chain on their own is rewarding, as they realize how much fun that part of the game can be as well.

Hakkonen wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:25 am

Isn't that what the skill package is for?

Sure, that definitely helps. Between background skills, free skills from connections, and the skill package, no excuse to not have basic competence to suit the campaign. Mongoose is pretty generous with the skills.