Recent content by grymlocke

my players 'aimed' for a jump to a system's gas giant, blow the jump roll and I had them reappear in the GG's atmosphere, I roled a few D6 (# roled relfecting how deeply inside the atmo they where, based on how bad the jump role missed) for number of hits to the ship do to stress and stain...

I always imagined ships (going waaay back to CT in high school) where built like subs, an outer shell and an inner 'pressure hull' with many of the pipes, etc running in space between...in MGT, thats where I imagine repair drone scurrying, rather than doing the R2D2 thing on the outside...

I give a few (1-3) experience points at the end of a "chapter" of the story, points can be used to: 1. shorten training time for improving/gaining skills 2. DM's to mid-term/ term rolls (to see if they 'stick to the study' and 'actually learned from it' 3. dm's that can apply to 'to hit' rolls...

I thinks folks are missing my question, so let me ask it this way.... what game mechanic (dm's, difficulty degrees, etc..) would you choose when players find themselves confronted by one? like my example thinking-outloud: jumping into a region with a particularly dense dark matter...

Since the games first appearance wayback when, the astronomic/astrophysic science community has made a great deal of discoveries...from dark matter to micro blackholes. To use some of these discoveries (in game terms) I thought I'd toss it out and let the brain storming begin... so...

or a secret zho base...

all the video games from the 80/90's that I played in pizza places (those big heavy stand alones) always seemed to have some boss villian firing those things... :roll:

oh, the reason that quadrant is 'empty'..ALL usable material was "harvested" to create a shpere 1AU RADIUS to even cover a g star... (the shear emptiness of one particular region, should be the first clue and at least raise a yellow flag among PC's)....

a cool brown dwarf is detected in a quadrant (4 sub-sectors) of empty stars (NO planets and sparce asteroid fields at best) that shows some odd EM readings. ok, routine mission so far...take the astronomer in for a closer look. upon jump to said brown dwarf, severral things happen.... 1) a...

over thinking.... simple answer: video games...becasue it looks really kewl don't like them myself. Think they're dumb, illogical, overly complex and munchkinning for 'true traveller'.

I tried to see how small a radius I needed to achieve a reasonable g but the rotational speed was.... :shock: http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm woo-hoo.. 894m radius @ 1 RPM with a tangenial velocity of 337 kph gives 1g....

vern-verse? (the universe of jules vern)..hmmm, 'Juliverse'? set iin early industrial ofcouse. Burroughs(ian) universe, set in the unverse of edgar rice burroughs (Carter, Carson, Tarzan...) anyone up for a trip to mars? :wink:

I played with one link where you (java based) punch in the any 2 numbers (grav desired/radii/spin rate) and get the missing for your habitat. I was shooting for minimun radii needed for reasonable grav... still came out to seem dang big (though with all of space to use, maybe not that big...)...

Genetically engineered home galactans with built in pockets (pouches) to carried their stuff, that way you can live naked and free in confined and controled enviroment of a starship. :wink: clothing opional? I was hoping this thread would wander into the differences between modern/ classic...

unitards... skirts tend to flare out in micro grav. and get in the way when you have to don a vacc suit. unitard can be self wicking for sweat, leave little to the imagination and with stretchy materials, one size fits most!!