Recent content by Darzoni

That, in my opinion, is a pretty neat way to go. I sincerely doubt the other players would be able to crack the suit without killing the character inside, but that makes my inner dungeon master cackle with glee. I think it would all depend on how fast somebody could hack the computer; a remote...

It was an original design in-game that is not based on anything the Aslan have done. We just patterned the aesthetics after Aslan battle dress because the engineer and wearer are both Aslan (designs for humans would probably be demonic looking given the suit design is called The Terror). For...

Given it is sized to fit an Aslan male, it probably only /barely/ fits through standard corridors (The logic is that I'm usually going in first anyway, so I might as well provide mobile cover for the rest of the boarding party). I like to think of the STR mod as being a combination of...

It is not standard battle dress out of the books, it was designed using the Vehicle Handbook. TL 14 or so, I think, using what Tech-World considered to be 'off the shelf' parts... ... that whole planet is shady. Anyway, this suit would not do well in open combat zones. It is designed for...

How I could afford Battle Dress: We jacked 43 d-tons of radioactives and sold them to a crazy scientist on Tech-World where the broker managed to get us 4 million per d-ton for them (another player saw the roll; it was something like a 20)... Being the resident ethnic Aslan Male (despite having...

Since we hit it big in the Pirates of Drinax campaign, I have a few questions as the ship's only effective marine... 1- How fast does battle dress make me in personal combat? 2- What's the dice modifier for Strength 29? 3- What's the difficulty to rip through the interior bulkhead of a...

No, the warp drives just make the power plant use twice as much fuel.

Warp drives allow you to stay in warp for a much longer period of time than a week, meaning you care far less about how big a gap is between this system and that one and more about "Well, when's maintenance due?". The movement pattern becomes 4 weeks of travel, 1 week spent doing maintenance...

I finally condensed my notes on using warp drive as it pertains to my Traveller Universe. At least, the game mechanics. The socio-economic parts haven't been worked out except for the fact that warp drives make a joke of normal subsector and sector sizes; I ended up using 16x16 parsec...

Well, I was mostly going with SFB, FC, and ACTA because I know people who have played those games and/or have played them myself. Starmada interests me, but I'm really enjoying Federation Commander and waiting on the Kzinti for ACTA. I considered the other games that ADB puts out as well...

Okay, so I meant to fact check this blog post before posting it, but it completely escaped me yesterday. SO, if you find anything regarding the rules being discussed in the article, PLEASE let me know and point some references my way; because I'll fix the post. It's mostly regarding Star Fleet...

So I finally found the time to sit down and review the other half of The Hub Federation... It's short because most of what I said about The Hub Federation book goes for this one as well. Please view it here.

Stormy Teacup: a Frontiersman on loan from the scout service. No, the players did not get to choose the name because it was on loan. Cold Mercy: A 140 year old Type S Scout. It had many quirks that did no mechanical effects but always managed to irritate the PCs. It had been 'gifted' to the...

My procedure is to glue the stem to the stand first, glue the cup to the ship. Then I put the ball joint in the cup, insert the stem into the ball, and adjust the ship for leaning. When I get it right, I remove the ship with the cup and ball attached and glue the damn ball in the cup...

I haven't had too many issues with newer versions, but I would definitely try to pin any nacelles to the body; I had issues with some of the Federation nacelles not having enough of a joining surface when I got my Fed fleet set. The Dreadnought and the Battlecruiser in the Reinforcements box...