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I'm working on a project at my blog (http://savage-doc.blogspot.com/) which can be best described as a Rifts-like Traveller filtered through a pulp/weird tales filter. I'm calling it Venturer and setting on a far future ruined Solar System. Robert Howard, HP Lovecraft, R A Heinlein, EE Doc...

I read an SF story once where there were turbo-scramjets that went from air breathing jet to ram rocket to pure rocket mode. If I recall correctly the turbine assembly rotated forward like a rifle bolt on locking lugs to seal the intake. Or something like that. In the AH of the story the US...

Because during the late unpleasantness ofthe 1860's the last major demographic that were big tea drinkers, Southron Planters, couldn't get the real thing, so they made do with herbal tinctures heavily sweetened to hide the bitter. The war and the blockade ended, the preference for...

The idea that great power conflicts in the 21st century are 'unrealistic' strikes me as remarkably naive, hopeful wishful-thinking at best. Human nature being what it is; peace is a hypothetical state of affairs whose existence has been deduced from the fact that there have been intervals...

1. Starship Troopers (Heinlein) 2. Mote in God's Eye (Pournelle & Niven) 3. Diamond Age (Stephenson)

I'll take a look at the book again, but I was planning on the overall movement rate ending up fairly similar (Warp-1 working pretty much like Jump-1 in re distance covered) just mainly using less fuel over all. Also there are story reasons for the change, like unpleasant consequences for...

Hello all, I'm starting a campaign soon and am considering swapping out Jump for Warp Drive. Has anyone else tried this? Does this break anything important (other than crossing the 'that's not Trav' line?).