Recent content by Bryn the 2300AD guy

A 12 year bump, but this isn't a free market. Starship production is severely restricted which creates more demand than supply for starship haulage. This drives the changable price up.

I forgot to include the three "adventure-y" modules. In Beltstrike there are three options given: The players are the Red Ink Trading Company, which owns the Far Trader Go for Broke The players arrive by passenger ship If the players already own a ship, use that. Tarsus basically copies the...

In the early GDW days, modules were... GDW produced 29 adventures for CT (exc. TCS), and of them their relationship to ship ownership was (from a quick reading): In 3 the players crew a scout on detached service (The Imperial Fringe, Shadows and Mission on Mithril (The Central Axis for the...

Even within Mongoose stuff, Colin can't be consistent. We have three different Aconit class frigates with different backstories, stats, number, in-service dates etc. in the Mongoose materials, and none of them match the GDW write-up in the core GDW rules (both editions). Same for the fleets...

Exactly! Why is Colin busy burning down what already exists? Why is he so deconstructionist?

For a problem to be fixed, first it must be identified...

Sometimes it's just politics. Ca. 1975 the US decided it didn't have enough cruisers, and so redefined what a cruiser was to make a lot more. The last actual cruiser (USS Long Beach) decommissioned in 1995. The Ticonderoga class destroyers were redesignated cruisers because Congress wanted more...

Yes, the jump drive maintains the jump field bubble during the jump. This maintains a bubble of "normal space" around the ship, keeping the strange physics of jumpspace at bay. Should the jump drive's lanthanum grid fail during jump it all goes "Event Horizon."

A random change. Queen Alice's Star was pioneered by ESAS Vancouver in 2164, and the British settled the first colony in 2178. The French settled the second colony in 2196, 18 years after the British settlement and 32 years after the planet was discovered. Neither are correct. BCV-4 is 1.13 AU...

Provolution were the major developing threat on the Chinese Arm, but they've prettymuch disappeared in the current version, since their raison d'etre (genetic modification of Humans) no longer is an issue.

There are tons of issues caused by "not bothering to read William H. Keith's original" here. The creator of the TFL, WHK, had a different backstory which was also basically true for the 2012 Mongoose edition excepting a random gender flip. Colonel Randolph Prescott was a disgraced ex-American...

Hi, I've recently been thinking about a potential 2300AD plotline for players to follow based upon chaining several Challenge adventures (which are online) together with modifications. This is explicitly set in the prime canon universe, and places the players as the crew of a "special forces"...

This is a major change to prime canon. In prime canon the Ylii (and Pentapods) aren't in Invasion. The Ylii worlds are on the far side of Kafer space and, enboldened by the weakness of the Oversuzerain, Great One is mounting a major offensive, has captured the last two remaining Ylii colonies...

General Carnot asked for a court-martial, but this was refused. He was simply posted to a staff position in Paris and refused to be employed. However, in 2294 a new Republic was formed (13th French Republic) from the ruins of the junta, with Nicolas Ruffin as President. In 2295 Carnot's request...

The general feeling in the community was that army units having starfighters was silly. In my Martel writeup (link) I wrote: "The 1/4 Escadron is mostly manned by American volunteers on secondment from the USSF but also includes some Bavarian ex-patriots. Misunderstanding of this has led to...