Recent content by Ataraxzy

I don't know about the first two, but Newitz should have known better. Krugman and DeLong are neo-liberal economists, which is very far from being leftist. There's a basic confusion of words here, 'liberal' in the context of economics is actually very far to the right - think Hayek, Friedman...

Not quite. We know that there's something that acts in ways that identify it as matter as opposed to energy - it has mass, it generates a gravitational field that we can detect, but what we don't know is what it is because whatever it is, it doesn't interact with itself or with other matter...

You missed that part. We already know from other sources how much normal matter there is in the universe. Finding atomic hydrogen (where it was predicted to exist 80 years ago, I might add) does not change the fact that we know the amount of matter in the universe. IOW: We already know how...

There are two issues here: 1. Dark matter is quite real. Atomic hydrogen acts in certain ways that are very much detectable. Dark matter is ONLY detectable by the gravity it makes. If you take a look at the Bullet Cluster and look at the gravitational lensing, you'll see a huge amount of...

I live on Ft. Meade.

RAW is that Skill(Speciality)1 grants Skill(Speciality)0 for every thing else. I also grant GunCbt0 to everyone à la the CT rules.

This is a tack I hadn't thought of. Good thinking!

I knew this would trip people up. Traveller likes to let you think that you're going to walk out of character creation with an FFF777 combat god. In reality, it's virtually impossible without fudging the dice, a lot. Roadblock #1: Initial dice rolls max at C. Chances of a 12? 2.78% Even a...

All of it. My goal isn't to create a mashup, it's an excision of the EP rules and a replacement with the Traveller rules.

Mostly just a delta table, citing the % change in success chance per +/-DM. It only goes up to +/-6, which is a guaranteed success/failure: DM TN %Succ Delta (change in success rate) -5 13+ 0 -4 12+ 2.78 2.78 -3 11+ 8.33 5.55 -2 10+ 16.67 8.34 -1 09+...

Yeah, I was hoping to avoid that... fortunately I've collected all the necessary data into tables.

Very close! EP is D100, roll under. You add your Aptitude (Characteristic) to your Skill to get a target number. Aptitudes are expensive, apply to multiple skills and are generally 25 or lower without a morph. Morphs provide aptitude boosts (and in some cases, ceilings) Roll under your...

True, but mechanically, (Physical) characteristics do not generally go higher than about D. The only way to get a physical characteristic above C - for example: STR - is to select one of the Army, Drifter, Navy, Marine Merchant or Scout careers: To get a STR F rating, you have to start off...

I'm not sure what you mean. I am using the setting and using the MgT rules to produce the tropes I want. Most of the stuff on the page is converting the setting material to MgT. Using the setting: Player1: I want to install Basic Biomods in my Flat! GM: Great! Here's the Traveller rules for...

I'm working on a conversion of Eclipse Phase to Traveller, which is going remarkably well. EP is a d100 system with a plethora of skills (Add Aptitude+Skill value, roll under), Traveller is a 2d6 system with few, but broad skills (Add Attribute mod + Skill mod, roll 8+). But in both cases...