Recent content by Cugel

What they said. 8) I don't really care if one of my players has a character with (as I do now, e.g.) Tactics-5: graduated with honors from the Army Academy then got drummed out after one term, successfully promoted a number of times and wound up with (no kidding) *4* Enemies in just five...

Traveller Creation: P8, Characteristics, Physical Characteristics, Dexterity: is “co-ordination”, replace with “coordination”. P8, Characteristics, Mental Characteristics, Education: is “(END)”, replace with “(EDU)”. P12, Finances box: is “earna lot”, replace with “earn a lot”. P12, Weapons box...

I'm going to go section by section: Introduction P4, Game Conventions, 1st para, 1st line: is “A quick discussion of various terminology…”, replace with “A quick discussion of terminology…” ("various" implies there's something "different" about the terms, when in fact all of those listed in...

The new character sheet has "Animal (veternary)", should be "Animal (veterinary)".

Thanks!

One more radical thought: ditch the specialties altogether...benefits: 1. Further reduction in the skill list. 2. More competent characters at fewer terms. Note: I tend to be generous with Skill points, and ignore the rule about "Leadership-1" not stacking on "Leadership-2", for example. I'm...

Unless I missed someone's post here, I don't think anyone is arguing that the rule is broken, just constrained to a particular style of play. The argument distills to "Do you want Traveller to have a broader or narrower appeal with respect to play styles?" As a "roll 2d in order" guy I...

This has always been my understanding: "indistinguishable from street clothes" implies cloth resistant to ballistic missiles, not bulky armor.

I agree with the above, and was just pointing out the current description. p.129: "A silencer can be added to any non-automatic slug thrower, masking the sound produced by firing." I was just arguing (on behalf on my players who purport to know more about this than I do) that even current tech...

At this point I think it's close to unanimous: please, please have Ian do the ships! :!:

Could not agree more, and one vote for the checklist as more effective: it'll allow you to recover two pages for something more essential.

Are we trying to model some ideal state, because this never happens in the RW...I can easily see (and have seen and heard) Capt.'s with Leadership-0, despite every attempt to train them. 8) Semi-joking aside, the careers are already dissimilar enough that just standardizing the "auto rank...

Yeah, I put that in the "That's crazy talk bin", no worries. Now this is a better idea: just list "Talent" in the skill tables, and allow the player to increase a Talent they already know or dice for learning a new one (that they'd previously failed). If this change is made I'd forego the "-1...

Please!

Sheesh...my players were downright giddy at the thought of playing Prisoners: "Who are you?" "The new number 2." "Who is number one?" "You are number six!" :wink: