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I could be completely wrong, of course, and I'm scheduling some time to work through the ship design to find if the hull configuration should be a factor by number-crunching the examples in MGT Core Rules & High Guard. It certainly seems the best explanation for the example calculation but it...

This where the errata for the Core Rule and books on starship design published after High Guard, of which I currently have none (yet), probably needs to be investigated. I'll look back at Classic Traveller too, the base system from which Mongoose Traveller was derived to see how they handled it...

I bought the MGT books in an order similar to the order the CT books came out. So it was first the Core Rules, then both High Guard and Mercenary, then recently Spinward Marches. On that basis I'll probably buy Scout soon. In part I'm also supporting my friendly local gaming shop to see if I...

A bit more research later and I think I can break down that formula for you, namely MCr (75,000/2 x 1.1 x 10/6) MCr 6,875 To get the cost of armour you work from percentages of the hull cost. The hull cost is 75,000 x 1.1, which is the base hull cost plus 10% (see the Configuration table on...

I'm about to rush out to sort out a section in a book shop but I think I can answer one part of your question quickly and maybe set the ball rolling for you in terms of answers. Thanks for the page number from High Guard, by the way, it made things a lot easier. If you look at pg 106 of the...

I'll probably be passing the URL of this thread to a friend's son, who has a lot of the necessary Lego. He might well appreciate the new starship designs. Has anyone come up with a good way to do Battle Dress yet or worked out a good stud to range conversion?

Well your last question was easier to answer directly ... I believe you roll using Apparent Age, when you stop taking anagathics because it says the requirement for rolling on Aging Table is "to simulate the shock due to his system starting to age again" (page 37). So they seem to act like...

If you want to look through MGT or CT on these matters in the future, rest assured I'll be happy to discuss them with you. If you do this I recommend you start with your own viewpoint, of course. Enjoy whatever usage you put MGT to.

This is the right attitude to take IMHO. The right way to handle "cannon" is to be aware of the baseline, to be able to speak in Mongoose terms.

Because people were discussing a lot of GURPS Traveller here before I asked. Due to MGT being clearly derived from CT this is probably the most respectable non-Mongoose system to draw from. However we each can still continue to draw from anywhere personally, of course, but sometimes we might...

Here's my stab at it ... Battlefield medicine is about restoring you to your default physical state and when you age that default state degrades. That field of medicine is not about immortality, for that is concern of anagathics.

I was actually inviting you to enlighten my viewpoint by explaining my viewpoint and seeing whether you could offer counter-points from the more relevant Traveller sources, MGT and (to a lesser extent) CT. You may deny it but game rules do add flavour and we should expect people like the OP, me...

This is pretty much the reason I brought this up. We should remember that this forum should be supporting people like CosmicGamer, who are mainly getting into Traveller via Mongoose's books. Wandering off into the realms of GURPS is something I feel we should avoid on this list in order to...

Oops, just bought MGT Spinward Marches (pretty good so far) at my friendly local game shop and found that my TLAs have been getting confused. I was think that OTU meant Own Traveller Universe but actually it was Original. In this thread I should used YTU in most cases. I guess I really should...

In your OTU, along with whatever people you want to reach consensus with, you're more than welcome to do this. However I consider Traveller to be a game and on this board I consider the discussion of the MGT game, with all it's implications and the way it flavours the setting, to be more...