Recent content by Endie

Thank-you. Your permission means a lot to me. 🙏

The thing about discussion is that, when someone replies to something one says, it’s not wholly out of order to respond. Policing that seems kinda odd to do: if you don’t want to see responses, don’t reply! The discussion was over two weeks ago, but someone disagreed and wanted to state why...

Nilsen (in his series of self-justifying answers on CotI where he got increasingly insulting at Aramis for keeping questioning him) doesn’t say outright that he hated the Traveller charted space universe, but he is explicit that he wanted to destroy it utterly because he found it hard to learn...

Megatraveller literally split the core book up. And yes, it was a pain. Arguing that Megatraveller was how games companies should go about publishing their system is a very tough furrow to plough. I disagree that the 2nd edition CRB is "very messy". T4? Sure. D&D 2014: absolutely. But the...

If only this were far-fetched, but China has embedded mandatory organ reuse for executed prisoners into their system, and there appears to be a decent-sized industry in finding prisoners who are a match to rich individuals and ensuring that their sentences lead to organs becoming rapidly available.

Some groups don’t bother with trade; some see combat as boring and are all about world-building and exploration; some groups have no interest in the world-building side and just want to be told if they need a vaccsuit or a breather mask by the referee. That core rule book will get pretty thin...

I strongly agree. The dedicated docking spaces will also be allowing budget for a multitude of other stuff like launching and recovery tech, adequate space to allow access to service all areas of the vehicle, various charging and diagnostic cables and rapid-attach or detach fixings. If someone...

Given the enthusiasm with which my players engage with the starship construction rules, and their eager theorycrafting regarding upgrading the one they possess, I’d say that would be a real shame to omit, too.

It’s a new system. I think we have to draw the inevitable conclusion that the author in JTAS 6 couldn’t even be bothered to invent a Time Machine, travel years forward in time to spring 2026, grab a copy of the VHB published that glorious year, take it back with them and responsibly design an...

Nah, he’s right: it’s a confused mass of arrows, lines, poorly-explained iconography and it tries to cover two years of fleet movements in places.

Good stuff, and I’m looking forward to hearing more!

But the first line of the pdf linked in the above PR says that the point is for it to *not* be detailed, even with the data from the worked example in the sector creation guide. In any case, I told you exactly how to try to get it updated in my post above, if you want to try. If you don't know...

Yeah, surely the whole point of Foreven is for it to be invitingly (almost) pristine and (nearly) blank? You'd have to raise a PR in github for the Foreven sector xml and tab files in https://github.com/inexorabletash/travellermap/tree/main/res/Sectors/M1105 but since the most recent change in...

Good luck stopping debate from wandering in any forum, ever, let alone this particular one. We get to post a thread, but where it goes from there is in the hands of everyone else and in the laps of the gods. And the tutelary deities of this particular board seem to enjoy sidetracks. This...

No dropping to page three for you just yet, my precious. In the latest session (admittedly now five days ago), the main player group work with the Martin II's escorts to jump to Exe and take on the Meatgrinder under Hroal Irontooth, despite the confusion amongst the Imperum naval officers as to...