Recent content by actionman

High TL starports would have a variety of advanced undergarments available.

I don't think the rule makes much sense, like a lot of rules. IMO it's another poorly-fitting abstraction.

Something I considered was skills by role. What does a character do on the team? What is his job? Infantryman skill would include skill with rifles, pistols, machineguns, fighting knife, grenade throwing, unarmed combat, and physical fitness, map reading, and generally any skill that a...

Absolutely.

Excellent examples. In @swordtart 's example of monitoring software for 30 to 40 hours, he was probably experiencing both a state of mental fatigue and a state of sleepiness, simply because he had to keep functioning beyond his body's normal hours of working, not because what he was doing was...

This is exactly what I mean. Imagine the sequence: It opens with the ships in flight on their attack run. The Traveller logo appears across the bottom of the frame, with Mongoose Publishing beneath it or something, so people know how to differentiate it from all the other Traveller results. A...

So I was looking for scifi battle scenes for a post I decided not to post. Example: Then I thought, Traveller doesn't have a media franchise, so why not make its own? WH40K didn't until GW made their own. Why shouldn't Mongoose make their own series of short battle videos featuring...

reprints and pdfs, especially the cd roms were so important. it was like archiving Traveller, dispersing it throughout the world. it made available long out of print Traveller books and materials, which I was very happy to finally have.

I don't know, it was way too weird to be a money grab. To me it seemed like mathematician game designers going down whichever rabbit holes interested them. Maybe a better comparison would be they were like the magician's nephew surrounded by pools in the Wood Between the Worlds and plunging...

@Endie you're being rude, I don't care why, it's none of my business. I edited because I added more info as I thought of it. Done with this side discussion now.

I don't care how many people buy that pos, my point was that D&D keeps changing rulesets. 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e, 5.5e, and now a possible 6e, which all require the playerbase to buy new books for each edition, this is not a firm foundation. D&D's fanbase are loyal to the D&D brand, not the game...

In the popular D&D village illustration for the 2024 D&D Pride Collection, the beholder's central eye had a particular design instead of a pupil like its other eyes. Funny how the FBI describes a very similar symbol. What a strange coincidence. Coincidences these days. Oh well. I don't...

You heard right. D&D has been a house built on sand since 3rd edition. It's as if their business model is planned obsolescence.

It's going to be hilarious when D&D 6th edition comes out. It's already in the works.

Agreed, skills and stats is what we reference the most, then gear, and we read left to right.