Recent content by drkem99

Appreciate the feedback - thanks!

I just wanted to let the forum members know I've started a new blog called Panzerboy Discontent that they might enjoy. (http://www.panzerboydiscontent.com/website/) I have about a month's worth of posts up (12); it should provide a fair sampling of what the blog will be like. There are not a...

Yep, the sky is so crowded you can't hardly swing a dead rat anymore without hitting a brown dwarf or a rogue planet. I know Colin mentioned in a couple of posts that he went around and around with that issue while writing 2300AD for Mongoose; he finally decided to keep the old Near Star Map by...

I can tell you from the previous incarnation of 2300 AD that the two-tug trick does not work unless you jettison the drive. Once a charged drive reaches the 7.7 ly limit, it cannot be taken offline or moved via stutterwarp in any way without the destruction of the drive and the release of lots...

If a stutterwarp drive is online, it will pick up the same radiation that the drives have to dump at the 7.7 ly limit whether or not they are actually propelling the ship. Thus, at 7.8 ly, all three drives on your vessel would explode, flooding the ship with lethal radiation and killing...

I look forward to your art and deckplans; my game can always use a new systemship or starship. You have a lot of fans out here lurking on the forums.

Thanks for posting the image. Will deck plans follow?

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The reason you can't easily find commercial software to help the Traveller GM with such issues is that (according to various forums) Marc Miller will not license commercial Traveller computer programs. So, we're on our own to develop then for nonprofit use. The following web pages may be of...

(Barely succeeds in resisting any number of off-color replies to previous post.) Dear Mongoose: Please forgive the complaint. I understand busy better than a lot of people (I'm a doctor in a newborn ICU.) However, the glacial pace of releases for this campaign is going to render it very...

I would like to quote a brief passage from the main Mongoose Traveller rulebook, p147 under fair use guidelines to answer kermit's question (modifying the table for the errata): Launching Missiles Unlike beam weapons, which travel at the speed of light and so hit the enemy vessel almost...

Rick Robinson's First Law of Space Combat states that "An object impacting at 3 km/sec delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT." By definition, all space combat missiles are kinetic energy weapons because spacecraft and starships that launch them already have a velocity that translates...

Wow, I'd better tell the Navy that their TL 8 anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles are useless; if TL 13 -15 missiles can't accelerate and acquire a target inside of 10000 km, there's no hope for the TL 8 versions. It's time to bring back the battleships! Seriously, the missiles start at the...

One regular contributor to these forums is middenface; according to previous posts, he uses Google Sketchup and gets great results. See: https://biomassart.wordpress.com/ Good luck!

"Death reaps the beauty of the world..." It never gets better, but it gets easier. Trust me, I know. Sorry for your loss.