Recent content by Endie

Thanks for the feedback: I feel I missed the big rush of people posting about PoD back in 2018-19 in this thread, so I am aware that it's sometimes just me posting into the void a bit...

I'm cautious about too much detail, given that there are a couple of people on this forum who love to derail into bad-natured argument and this thread has had only had two really bad episodes in forty pages (one of whom deleted his account, thankfully). I'm also not fooling myself that my...

I wrote up an update on last night's session here: https://drinax.net/week-26-revolution-on-acrid-2/ It was a pretty fun session, although a little disjointed: this is maybe to be expected when you have the players running two parties, one of which was dealing with problems of state-building...

So for any given dice result the braking outcome is the same, whether you do it the risky way or the safe way? MJD writes great adventures but by God his systems always need carefully playtested. File this one with the Deepnight crew management systems, the Islands in the Rift stress system...

Well, it makes sense to me that a protective outfit protects a robot, cyborg, android, human, or Vargr equally well: if it allows movement and doesn’t allow the environment into contact with the occupant then I can’t see why it wouldn’t work. Humans and robots doing the same amount of work (in...

Someone else can explain it to him, he whooshed pretty hard, here.

Sure, stopped (analogue) clocks can be right twice a day, but I genuinely don’t think reopening this absolute cesspit of a thread because a creative writing coach who thinks that TV is a CIA mind control psyop and who is confident that the Unabomber is an authoritative source happens to agree...

She has a skull on her desk and approvingly quotes the Unabomber in her intro :D Edit: in the time it took me to type that she tells us to ignore the printing press but that TV is a CIA mind control experiment… Second edit: dammit she’s just a creative writing coach :rolleyes:

If you want, in Traveller, to shoot at your players with laser weapons and firearms or have them face molecular blades etc then either - chill out and let them wear armour - find a way to streamline character generation

It feels like a lot of upset about nothing, to me: Ion cannons are in high guard, sure. Lots of people say that they don't want Traveller to be inextricably linked to Charted Space and the Imperium so of course you want exotic tech for building other settings. But Ion Cannons appear in exactly...

The turn of which century? The 20th? Many of the English nobility did lose their estates, for sure, during the 20th century. This was due to various causes, but "they were stupid and didn't know where their wealth came from" was absolutely not any more widespread than profligacy in any other...

The Mercenary Forces book, in the section on Ilelish, sets out some basic rules for trade wars between worlds or megacorps etc., so they do exist in the 3i setting.

Yeah I didn't invest in this server connected to a camera that points at 100 lava lamps just to use D6s for random numbers like a Roman peasant.

For a sci-fi book that might appeal to someone who wants a focus less on the hard science and more on character interactions, emotion etc (I'm trying to avoid saying "female-friendly" as my wife wants the hard sci-fi stuff!) then I'd suggest a newer book: How to Live Safely in a Science...

If the writer meant to say that they have production-capable shipyards that they don't use in the century or so between major wars then the writer was a lunatic, because unless they are entirely unlike today's shipyards then you need to have a fairly constant order book so as not to lose the...