Recent content by AKjeldsen

Here’s a few flavour excerpts from the sidebar “Inside Battledress” in GURPS Trav: Ground Forces p. 36-38 (which by the way is excellent). “A Marine in battledress is not just an infantryman with bigger and better weapons; he is the pilot of an advanced weapons platform.” “One bodysuit...

I’ve always thought the Gateway Sector is really interesting, with a number of competing mid-sized interstellar states and the looming threat of the Two Thousand Worlds just over the galactic horizon. You could have all sorts of different campaign types in that area, even something on the scale...

Maybe there’s records in the (notoriously disorganised) archives at the Scholars’ Tower with clues to its location. (Science/History) Maybe it was located in a region of the belt with a higher than average number of metallic asteroids. (Science/Planetology or Science/Geology) Maybe there’s...

I’d just go ahead and make it a class K or G star. Not just to fix the jump shadow issue, but also because Drinax used to be an Earth-like garden world with grasslands and forests, which is extremely unlikely if not impossible in a class M system.

I’d recommend the GURPS Space book, it has a very detailed system for generating solar systems.

It’s not a closed border, though. There’s a lot of trade going in and out of the Hierate, and that means there’s also people moving back and forth, and some of those people are going to be Aslans who have decide to settle down. (Just like we know there are humans living in the Hierate.) Trade...

The Ihatei are maybe not supposed to be there, but have they considered that most of those planets would have individual “civilian” Aslan inhabitants who are there perfectly legitimately?

I’d split the difference and say 1D% on assets of 500,000 Cr per Clan Share.

It's definitely no more than on the "nice to have" list, but the Glorious Empire sourcebook might be useful – it's an important power in the region and could play a big role in a Drinax campaign.

I would suggest tying the mortgage to the players’ Allies, if they have any, to act as sureties. Running from a loan to an abstract financial institution is one thing, but if it means turning a potentially powerful Ally into an Enemy because you suddenly left them holding the bag on a 60 MCr...

So what happens to radioactive materials that are subjected to a nuclear damper? Do they instantly decay all the way down the decay chain to lead? And in that case, where do all the particles and the energy go? Or do they stay as the same element, but just stop being radioactive? Both of those...

My take is that the limiting factor will not so much be the facilities (both Shipyards and Construction Decks should be fine for the job), but the technicians and the skills needed. An annual maintenance is probably going to involve all sorts of specialised procedures like jump field emitter...

They move very slowly in our own four-dimensional Normal Space, but for all we know, they might move extremely rapidly in the 10 or 11 dimensions of Jumpspace…

Couple of suggestions, involving various degrees of rewriting: * I was looking at the vehicle combat rules recently, and it stood out to me that RAW, the only way passengers inside a vehicle can take damage is if they are hit by a specific critical hit. (Unless I really missed something, which...

Just to add another data point here, I really hope some form of EU-based solution can be worked out at some point as well. (I realise it’s very complicated.) I’m looking at a minimum admin fee of 200 DKK (£23) per parcel, and then import VAT comes on top of that. So direct orders from the UK...