Recent content by heselbine

Just looked at the exhibitor list for UK Games Expo. No Mongoose?!

This will probably be regarded as heresy but I do away with cascade skills entirely. In MTU, an Engineer is an Engineer. This does not appear to have made the game less fun, quite the opposite in fact.

Funnily enough I do have a Steward action to calm down stressed crew members. But that relies on using my stress mechanics which are not part of Traveller rules.

The Traveller Companion contains a wealth of good stuff. I would wholeheartedly recommend it if you're looking for a Traveller experience across the whole range of possibilities.

As I said in the OP, if you are just talking about two ships, or two groups of ships, and they are flying either directly away or directly towards each other, and there are no other complications, there is no maths beyond tracking a velocity. I would abstract it if it got any more complicated.

Am I the only GM who has house ruled vector based space combat? For me, it makes things more fun. Of course, it's a computational nightmare if you have anything but two ships which are either flying towards each other or away from each other, but that is overwhelmingly the case in my games. A...

I love the idea of a religion gaining serious traction with the crew. Could be lots of fun. Sorry, captain, I can't fix the jump drive today, it's the Festival of Wibble.

That sounds fun!

Posted too soon! Found them in the 'Primitive and Advanced Spacecraft' chapter. It would be good to have all this stuff nicely in one place.

Where can I find starship weapon trait descriptions? The particle barbette for the ship in Pirates of Drinax is described as 'accurate' and 'high yield' but I can't find these anywhere in the Core rulebook or High Guard.

It is completely ridiculous. Can you imagine anyone travelling today with even a 0.1% chance of dying? I houserule this silliness away.

It's interesting to see Foundry is ahead of Roll20 as I post. That I find surprising.

Just bought a Foundry license and I am building out my own house rule Traveller system from scratch, which is a good excuse to brush up on my programming skills. One of the things I really want is to give each player a customised view of their ship depending on their role to make space combat a...

I'm sure this must have been covered before, but... Surely there's no such thing as passive radar/lidar? Radar/lidar by definition need a transmission source, don't they? Shouldn't the passive radar/lidar column of the sensors table on p150 of the core rulebook be the same as the EM column?

2 people per stateroom is already my house rule.