Recent content by BigDogsRunning

According to the 2004 Joe Fugate interview, the reason they reduced jump-fuel requirements in MegaTraveller and TNE was because they incorporated the Striker rules for fusion powerplant fuel consumption. Now your regular powerplant sucks down enormous amounts of fuel, in addition to your Jump...

I've been through three characters in our PoD campaign so far. Number One was a Vargr journalist from Regina who fell into the campaign while looking for the big story that might finally get him published in the JTAS. Alas, he perished on Theev, falling victim to another PC's enemy. Number 2...

Spec Trade goods could be over-production and market saturation, but then you've got the problem of needing to transport them far enough away to markets that aren't oversaturated.

Handle it however you like, but consider this. Any commodity cargo that is available at a discount would be snapped up by an incumbent, unless there was a complication that might make it less palatable. So, consider any cargo that is available for the PC's to purchase to be potentially...

It doesn't take much of a computer to run translator software. We used low-powered computers, built at higher TL, so they're tiny. It runs Intellect and an Expert/Electronics (Comms) to run the built-in transceiver. It can tie into the local infonet, like a cell-phone, or open a channel to...

I'm thinking that if the character is from a culture, or species, for whom Psionics is a regular thing, they can purchase it directly, as long as they abide by any other restrictions. For example, for Zhodani, I'd say that if they want a trained PSI of 9+, they'll also need to purchase a SOC of...

Since point-buy characters aren't rolled...

Now we just need a weapon design sheet for the Field Catalogue. ;)

If using the Point Buy character generation system from the Companion, how would you handle Psionics? Just have the player purchase the Psionics stat, and then appropriate skills? Make Psionics a benefit that must be purchased and then purchase the stat and skills as above? Something else...

Travellers are not your average person anyway. They're those who realize they don't fit a 9-5 job, and depart for places unknown, to find their fortunes. They're not dependent on a pension for survival. The mustering out cash and other benefits that they start with is all they've got at the end...

In the table headers for Artillery Weapons, Vehicle Heavy Weapons, and Rockets Missiles and Bombs, KG should be changed to tons, or values in the tables should be converted to kg.

Better optimization of the PDF's. Better bookmarking. The chargen flowchart seems to be a bit broken. Maybe re-emphasize that the rules are a starting point, and a guideline, and that referee's should use as little or as much as suits their needs.

While Retrotech/Prototech isn't specifically mentioned in High Guard, it does specifically state that the computers installed in a ship work just like personal computers. Retrotech/Prototech application would make the same sense for ship computers as it does for personal computers. Higher TL...

Any of the descriptions could have been intentionally inserted into the library data to serve someone's agenda.

Computer rating/price/TL aside, is there supposed to be any actual mechanical difference between regular ship computers, and Computer Cores? Cores seem to be just expensive ways of getting higher powered computers at lower TL's, for more $$$. Am I missing something? Since they can all use the...