Recent content by dlpulver

Very cool. Nice cover art, too.

I'd suggest the authors consider using a consistent reality-based damage formula based on armor penetration in mm/cm of steel plate to derive damage consistently across the board. - Then all you need to do is find a conversion value to Megatraveller damage. Since the damage system seems to...

My comments on the proposed 2nd edition. "Energy Shortarm, Slug Shortarm" Let's use "sidearm" instead, and avoid making up new firearm terminology - it sounds a bit silly. "Invisibeam" lasers. I don't know why this is TL12 or what is it supposed to represent. A typical laser carbine or laser...

That's cool. If you're curious, before they were parachuted in as the Addaxur, they were actually a minor race located a few subsectors coreward of Regina subsector. (In my own campaign, Leviathan worked out very well, so after that the party went on a second voyage of trade, diplomacy and...

Most of the races (with two exceptions, which don't appear in the GURPS Traveller books) did indeed originate in my Traveller game. I don't play Spacemaster, but it turned out they needed an alien book and they made me what seemed like a good offer. (Unfortunately, the writeups I had were too...

I had nothing to do with the K'Kree writeup in GURPS Traveller, so my opinion is mostly irrelevant (:

Thanks! Very glad you found these elements to your liking (despite the other issues). Rudyard Kipling's colonial stories and poems were a mild influence on Traveller and perhaps an inspiration for Mongoose's name. I found a quote from Kipling's The Stranger that seemed to sum up the average...

Mind you, if you're going to use warp drive, might be easiest to just assume ships move under m-drive like stutterwarp ships in 2300... goodbye complex vectors, hello simple movement point system (2 hexes/turn times the m-drive number, say).

You could put the space station near a gas giant (orbiting it). Then maybe the penal ship was decelerating to skim fuel from the gas giant when the mutiny occurred.

Thanks! Well, if they asked, I'd certainly be interested, completion of pre-existing assignments permitting, but core book revisions are often done in house rather than by freelancers.

Hmm. Mongoose Traveller already has covered plenty of equipment, robots, vehicles, and so on in various supplements like Central Supply Catalogue or Robots, so I'm not sure if there would be any room to work without stepping on existing material. Of course, there's always the SRD license, but I...

It is indeed an error - the first rule should have indicated that you can get into the Solomani party by passing, but not the military branches. (Note that some other errata re character creation has already been published, though not for that issue.). I sincerely apologize for the multiple...

Checking JTAS asteroid mining rules, apparently not (: I don't think they'll change the rule in Mongoose as it would mean errata for the life support cost line in every one of their starship entries (there are probably several hundred of these across multiple books). I was just looking for ways...

The good suggestion to check Marc Miller's "Mining the Asteroids" in JTAS #3 which are canon (if not MGT) does produce some interesting figures for "any ship" for long term in-system operations and apparently is directly from Miller. We therefore learn that in order for a ship to operate for the...

I agree that "a higher maintenance cost for stateroom life support" seems to fit some MGT facts. These are: (a) Ships have no separate life support system, so this is included with the staterooms (given the Cr. 500,000 each cost). It would inefficient to assume all staterooms have independent...