Recent content by brionl

If you don't tell them, nobody is going to count up the squares and add up all your tonnage, unless you're way off. Just go with what looks good, and is close. If your players don't like it, invite them to design the vehicles they way they like, when they are running the game.

First off, none of the Hammer's Slammers stories have any planetary assaults. You don't get one planet invading another one, it's all fighting between different countries/factions on the same planet. Secondly, the star ships generally aren't under the control of either combatant, they are...

I've got 30 years of gaming crap piled up. I don't have ROOM for any more full-size hardcover books. That's why I bought the pocket edition, and I bought all the other stuff in PDF format.

One thing that they got right this time is that the new careers don't instantly make the careers in the main rulebook obsolete. After Mercenary came out, the group would usually consist of 3 Army, 2 Marines, and 1 obligatory Scout (for the type S benefit). When the game is skill based, and the...

Even if you don't need to snorkel, it is still standard practice to stick a snorkel up and bring in fresh air periodically, it gets pretty funky down there after a while. former EM1(SS)

Where's the Planetary Romance genre? Aka Swords & Blasters, i.e. Barsoom, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, etc.

A little more seriously, I'd say a mishap with a Drifter career basically means no benefits for that term, besides whatever the table says.

The 300 Whisper is a fairly new subsonic round designed for use in Police Sniper rifles. Put in a new barrel and fire it out of your AR-15.

You couldn't make a Hydrogen Fuel tank explode. There's no oxygen to support combustion. You could knock a hole in the tank and ignite the jet, or heat up the tank enough that it ruptures, but you can't make it explode unless you are heating it up to fusion temperatures.

Naw, kill them and they just roll up new characters. Taking away their stuff is really dirty pool.

I've been digging through my junk room, disposing of misc crap from the last 30 years or so and I ran across my original Traveller stuff from my campaign in '77 - '79. It was back in '79. We'd all seen Star Wars about a dozen times, and I'd just read Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean...

Currently, I'm using Stanza on my iPod touch for ebook reading, and it does just about all of those. If I was going to run a game, I'd take a laptop, but I like taking along my iPod for perusing books while I'm on the BART or riding along in somebody else's car, or waiting in the doctor's...

That was my first thought too. Then my second thought remembered that they don't do that no more.

Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Idiots Abroad? So now the question is, who has the Football?

OK, I just checked the permissions on my Scouts pdf, and while you can copy text, and extract pages, you can't put comments in. Seems a bit bass-ackwards to me. :)