Recent content by enderra

Hey Guys, I was wondering - what is your favorite type of star map, and why? Do you stick to Hex based maps? Freeform 2d? Semi-3D, that is, a 2d map but all stars have a certain z-dimension added? Fully 3D à la 2300 AD? I ask because I can't quite make up my mind. I regard true 3D as...

Thanks for sharing, that was quite cool. And yeah, super-2300ADish.

point of road might be to keep the ground under all those bustling grav vehicles free from pedestrians who might otherwise have garbage and lit cigarette butts dumped on them. Plus as other said, might be a combined ground/grav culture. It's like saying, "we have planes now, why do we still...

I see no issues whatsoever with the first two - Grays and Predators - and the main issue with the Xenomorph Aliens is the acid blood I guess.

The thing with rubbersuit aliens is also that they have to be portrayed by people. CGI is relatively recent and even so use of makeup etc is just still cheaper, and easier. That said, the bipedal humanoid form does have the advantage that we know that it is used by at least one sentienent...

Good job duplicating threads: http://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=87011

If believing that makes you happy... keep on trucking. I won't feed you.

You actually should read up on copyrights and IP law. You're going to be in for a few surprises. Anyway, let's end this here, I don't think anything constructive can come out of it.

Yeah, it is. Why wouldn't it be? The ship is almost an 1:1 copy, and recognizably so; and there is no doubt that there is a copyright on the movie Alien. I am not going to rewatch it just to see if the artist copied a particular frame or shot but that's not necessary to infringement. You may not...

Not of ships, no; the closest example would be the Broadsword mercenary cruiser (with the Sword worlds and the Star Vikings thrown in for good measure) from Space Viking, but that's not a legal problem now (it may have been when it was originally added to Traveller). What some of the artists...

Does he really? I wasn't even aware of that. Well, then we should probably start another thread about the art that Traveller has used over the year that clearly infringes on other people's copyrights (Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica come to mind as two examples I have seen, but there are...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor "The plan is to reach a high-beta ratio. Plans call for a compact 100 MW machine. The company hopes to have a prototype working by 2017, scale it up to a full production model by 2022 and to be able to meet global baseload energy demand by...

Real aliens confirmed.

I just went with +2STR and Feral.

I tried to read Dumarest and judging by my experience $3+/book is too expensive. With no offense to the late Mr Tubbs, they are honestly not very good, and I assume that, nowadays, they are of mostly nostalgic - or in our case here, academic - value to readers. This...