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Continuing on a theme, regarding "shorthand for..." Do not go the route of assuming I mean to trivialize the United States roles during the War to End all wars (World War 1) and World War 2. The saying that history is written by the victors is very real, and everyone's history emphasizes their...

I just recently purchased a copy for Fantasy Grounds myself - largely because I've been active with the Facebook Community TRAVELLER RPG Talk. I'm more of a GURPS TRAVELLER type GM, but if I'm going to try and get people interested in trying to game via VTT software, then I'd best put my money...

I read a few of the responses in this thread, and as a so called "Yank" - I find it perhaps amusing that the whole point of the phrase was essentially "short hand" for describing a given mindset. Yes, "Yanks" who run their campaigns at home in "Yankland" will tend to ascribe to the culture they...

Brought us Peace? **ducks laughing** - NEAT Monty Python Reference!

Late to the party... Pg 23 shows a jump net carrying what look like asteroids for a jump ship class ship listed on page 22. "Special field cables attached to the rear of the ship extend the ship's jump field to include this additional cargo. Alterations in displacement will affect the size of...

There is one minor nibbling issue with Marc's assignment of nobility based upon certain "set in amber" aspects of any given world... Worlds that have actual nobility on them, qualify as "Imperial" worlds - worlds without noble representation qualify as what precisely? If you take a hard look...

For what it is worth: Imperial capital world laws are in effect on all Imperial territory such as starports inside the XT line or the imperial nobility fief, and last but not least - imperial flagged civilian and naval ships. Doesn’t matter if the ship is in space, at port, or on the surface...

GURPS TRAVELLER sets GTL 12 as TTL 15. GTL 11 = TTL 14. GTL 10 = TTL 12 & 13. So, any GURPS TRAVELER 10 ship is really your bog standard TRAVELLER tech 12 ship. Analysis of 1 dTon shipping costs break down to total volume of 1dTon divided by 1,000 credits to give you an actual cost of...

You can also download a text file for sectors if want.

A long time ago, I had the idea that SIN's are designated by the world's unique identifier, the year the hull was constructed, and the contract number for the hull itself. If a world has several shipyards, then each shipyard would have its own unique identifier and their contract numbers. In...

Mind you, any answer given is always "In My Traveller Universe"... Pilots and/or ship captains have to file a flight plan in order to leave ports that have any level of flight control. On worlds that do not have this, then people can visit such worlds without fear that their flight plans are...

One thing that occurs to me is that if grav plates can be installed in a starship, and in theory, one would expect that they would need a fairly substantial amount of power to operate - that "pallets" with grav fields of their own might not be slim things at all, or if they are, their power...

Dumb question time: in zero g of space, why can't you equip a wall with grav plates any have cargo fall towards the Grav plate from one ship towards the other?

All interesting comments - and will be filed away for later use... ;) Cross pollinating from the Facebook thread - one comment that was made was that the Sword World's "Viking" psyche (my words, not his by the way) were such that they are driven by their culture to raid for personal honor...

Hello Folks, Recently, I started watching MADAME SECRETARY (ok, Binge Watching actually) and I got to wondering "how can I adapt this for use with my Lunion subsector campaign. Substituting The POTUS with the Duke of Lunion, I'd have to of course, invent the role of Secretary of State for use...