Recent content by Endie

None of this group had played Traveller except my wife, and that was a couple of sessions a long time ago when we were kids. So I looked at Treasure Ship and stuck a bunch of distracting hooks to tempt them into doing other stuff. They'd all spent too many years playing D&D and I was worried...

The latest session was the second episode of the Treasure Ship adventure. https://drinax.net/week-29-treasure-ship-2/ After the first session, the players seemed quite daunted. Partly by the number of characters and partly by the scale of the other players involved: Hroal's Meatgrinder is six...

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Your 0.14 cubic metre figure for sleeping and storage is out by an order of magnitude. Given that a rack on a sub is about 1.9m long, that would make the bunk about 270mm wide and high. In other words, you want the person squeezed into a space about 11 inches wide and 11 inches high. This...

Month ≠ week! Don't build your hopes up...

A fusion or plasma weapon may or may not struggle to hit a manoeuvring missile aimed at another ship (using the PD software), but for a missile aimed at the PD ship, where the transversal speed requiring a change in tracking necessarily drops as the missile gets closer, that’s going to be less...

I totally agree. Using cubic metres would solve so many misunderstandings and confusions: you can tell a new player that a far trader carries 81 dtons and if you're lucky theyll just have no clue what that means. If you're unlucky they'll think "oh it can carry 81 tons of stuff." Then they'll...

This week's session saw the travellers embark on Treasure Ship: 28 weeks in and we're just starting on the second of ten core adventures! The adventure is painted a a heist but I find that running it makes it seem more like a (very role-playing heavy) mystery investigation for the bulk of it...

Luckily, I belong to the "Traveller is a game, not a sim" crew, so I have fun just playing Traveller. However, if folks want to, then they can say "it takes a phenomenal amount of energy to initiate the reaction that consumes the fuel, so yes you need fuel and yes you need a big power...

On the basic practicality: the Martin II in the Treasure Ship adventure (PoD Episode 2) is stated as being supported by grav lifters. It's possible, but judging from its relative scarcity in the books it's presumably not an efficient or desirable practise for some reason.

I imagine that someone leaving their ship floating on lifters simply has a set of ground anchors at each corner of the ship.

His cryogenics experiments were just before he was cleared for USAF UFO intel which was in turn just before he ran a large, multinational company.

That's what he has done! He has confused cubic metres (1,000 litres) with dtons but (until his latest piece of "no you're wrong not me!") he has mixed his units, which is why he got the volume of water wrong by a factor of roughly 14.

Your maths is absolutely not correct. Impressive as your childhood science experiments are, they must have been a very long time ago! You are almost exactly correct regarding the mass of hydrogen contained in a tonne (don't mix imperial and metric: it makes Baby Jesus sad) of water at room...

Might it be worth using the Feedback forum (which is for this sort of thing) and sticking it all into one thread where it is easy to see all of the answers at once? As it is Geir or anyone else who wants to see the discussion will have to know that there are numerous threads dotted aruond the place.