Recent content by Endie

As a spin-off of a thought experiment on world evacuations for high-pop worlds (result: it probably takes years), I tried to build the most efficient mass transport that I could. It involved a million-ton ship with modular payload modules (with cold-berthed passengers pre-loaded during the...

One hilarious piece of lore-building I’ve come across thus far is the attempt to get rid of the (Evil! Sexist!) term “no man’s land” by asserting that in Zhodani the term (venchdlabr ste’) means “nobody’s land” and proceeding to clunkily use that, throughout. They’d make a godawful translator if...

One of the more informative and well-laid-out posts on these forums. Hugely interesting and useful, thank you. Although for me, the real tragedy in your post is that you had to spend more time in CDG, just when you thought you were out. Nobody deserves that.

He should just have specified Michaelmas, Candlemas and Whitsun terms as all right-thinking universities refer to them…

Since it’s a solo system, it actively needs arbitrary, random elements. Although naturally, with it being a solo system, you’re even more in charge of how things play out IYTU than ever, so raiding or lowering awards becomes even easier, if you have a plot idea in mind.

All physicists know that knowledge of physics grants them expertise in all other sciences. “Sure I can solve your problem in veterinary science. Now, first, we’ll assume that your ill horse is a perfect sphere…”

I’ve found the mute button super-helpful at cutting down the number of moustache guy responses and quote posts containing only a pointless YouTube video. It also helps hide those two weird “why don’t you just get a blog?” threads that clutter the first page.

In Zozer’s Solo system for Traveller, in the Scouting campaign, survey points are allocated for discoveries made, data confirmed etc (with tables to help resolve each). Amassed survey points pay at 1,000 credits per point and an average survey will tend to give about ten. However, it’s assumed...

Absolutely. They were extremely “turn to the director and argue about my character’s motivation for this scene”.

Dungeon Musings runs great actual play series (not just for traveller). Don’t go to his feed if you want quick-fire action: I’m currently on episode 18 of his Borderlands Run series and they’ve not even found out the Cargo’s Big Secret! Fights are rare and he seems to go out of his way to steer...

I liked it better when you all sulked and said you were refusing to argue with each other any more.

They did get a bit repetitive after the same post for three pages straight, yes. But my reply wasn't sarcastic in any way. I meant exactly what I said, devoid of irony or acerbity. The two posts I mentioned specifically genuinely did justify the occasional drudgery.

This thread was 8 pages of what boiled down to "I want the value to be higher" "OK, make it higher then" "But it should be way higher!" "Well it's your universe make it what you like" etc etc With a lengthy quibble about where navy ships are built and, in the genuine highpoints: - notes on the...

A great example of "ymmv". To balance this, @Ottomancer, bear in mind that plenty of other people have the exact opposite experience with this mini-campaign. For me, it's a cracker that certainly does, however, benefit from thoughtful handling by the GM. If you're unfortunate enough to be...

Treasure of Sindal from the Companion book are nothing to do with the Shadows of Sindal at all. I'd try to drop one of them in first, to get the pyers used to the idea of Sindalian bounties to be found, but they're just examples of an extra area to add to your campaign. You should make up your...