Recent content by CordwainerFish

Was going to say "actually closer to 25 hours" but that turns out not to be the case. (Though when I was younger I think I would have had no problems living a 25 hour day.)

This. In Traveller, just like in real life, 'fair fight' means you have a 50% chance of finishing on the floor, likely so badly hurt you will never fully recover, very possibly dead. And there is no resurrection magic. OP, teach your players to cheat. Avoid contact with the enemy, or show up...

I hope the next tranche of JTAS issues includes a tribute to the late Archduke Dulinor, victim of a mysterious shuttle accident.

Read strictly, that would also give a negative DM when treating a TL10 implantee at a TL13 facility. Somehow I doubt that is what was intended...

In real life, a well meaning idiot an untrained person attempting first aid can very easily make things worse - removing an impaling object, digging around a bullet wound trying to remove the bullet (!), or other stupid shit they saw on television.

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Yep, GURPS Space is a great example of how to be influenced by something without simply copying it.

English is not Latin.

Second one will fix the errata.

I don't have my VTT available at the moment, but I do think one of my characters does have all four Electronics skills.

I think I saw that movie...

Except they have a very different probability distribution.

p.167 and following: per Tmap, Jefltsea subsector is in Enchakl sector, not Nialkridla, and it is in subsector P, not M (putting its worlds at different hex numbers).

p.154: The stanza for Fiaftashe sector and the one for Nshofref sector should be swapped.