Recent content by Hootenheimer

My approach is almost if not identical to what @Endie did, down to having a GM Prep Spreadsheet of Doom™ that tracks the System Attitude in each system, which represents how a planetary government or a people feel about Drinax generally rather than their attitudes toward piracy. I mostly kept...

My two cents is that I don't know anything about legal proceedings but I definitely made handouts. I slapped my a party with a subpoena a while ago and I used Form AO 88 for inspiration. The Century family of fonts is a good font to use for legal summonses or warrants or subpeonas.

I'll reply to this, since most of what I did with Pourne was entirely pulled out of my arse and made up on the spot. I did not anticipate the PCs doing anything more than a stopover at Pourne on the way to Paal while kicking off the Shadows over Sindall arc. Instead, the players spent all of a...

I've made the joke in this thread or elsewhere that I'm playing the Small Business Associations United of Drinax rather than Pirates, and that's a joke because it's mostly true. I've had a cast of 3 consistent players with my partner (who travels frequently for work) dropping in once a month or...

The WotC OGL debacle is multilayered and it's partly about history (TSR, They Sue Regularly), memories, and risk appetite. Case law in the United States has established that you can't copyright "rules and mechanics" but that comes with some crucial caveats: 1) There just isn't that much...

Hi there! I'm currently a year and a half into a weekly Pirates of Drinax game, and I can vouch for having used part of the Drinaxian Companion and parts of Shadows of Sindal. I've also used Makergod (we actually just finally started that arc a couple of weeks ago). I picked up the other Reach...

I think the only thing that pops out at me is since the ship received a Severity "7" critical hit, the following would apply: Once a location has reached Severity 6, it cannot suffer any more critical hits. Instead, the spacecraft will receive 6D extra damage every time the location suffers...

I have the same experience, I started a weekly Pirates of Drinax game in April of 2024 that is ongoing and is probably slated to end next year (but who can say) and there's only been two overt acts of piracy by the party. From what I've heard from other GMs, I think this might be more the norm...

Thanks for the reply and explanation @Arkathan, that cleared things up for me! I have no additional questions, I just want to stress that the work you and @Terry Mixon and anyone else has put in on this spreadsheet has been outstanding and is deeply appreciated.

Before I launch into my question, I just way to say that this spreadsheet is tremendous and I want to think everyone who has worked on it. I have a question for the peanut gallery here; I've tried searching the now 92 pages of this thread and I haven't found an answer. What is a "Middle...

Hey all. This spreadsheet is really great! I have a question for all the people that have worked on it, because I am completely confused by the quantities that are being generated by for the trade goods. I think I understand this example, but for everything else in the Trade Goods table that...

No one is giving you a run around. There are lots of passionate and genuine people who are excited about the OTU and how the canon can reflect real life ambiguities, like WW2. They've had 47 years to think about the fiction, and we're all a bunch of passionate nerds. I see two dates from 1107...

Hi! I'm a new(er) Traveller Referee who only started running games this year, and I have a couple of questions that are either license related or business related -- so I'll go ahead and take my shot and ask them! 1) I'm from the United States, and try to support my friendly local gaming store...

@Coryphon was making contributions to it and updating it as of a couple of months ago, and has a thread titled Roll20 Traveller 2E Character Sheet Updated on the forums here that I can't figure out how to link to without tripping spam rules. He's probably the person I'd poke first.

This very much makes sense (to me, at least!), that the numbers on the "parsecs travelled" rate chart can be handwaved with a combination of both what the market will bear, what historical shipping routes look like, and operating costs for ships. This is 100% how I'm running my Tuesday night...