Recent content by jaysm

Just a different flavour of scifi. Having a ship you talk to can be more engaging for some people than having some robots walking or floating around the ship. The same preference could be part of the profile of different cultures within your universe too.

The RHB has a ship's brain interface sized for the whole ship, plus haptic required to use DEX skills, and non-interfaced brains that can still get information from the ship's systems/sensors but use drones or avatars to act. First issue is mine, the next two trying to preempt my players...

Tonnage in terms of volume, to account for the thickness of the structure required for the extra rad protection.

Good point about accounting for the weight/bulk, so 10% tonnage and another 0.2MCr/ton, that would be 0.225MCr/ton which is a bit disproportionate compared to the shielding cost. Might keep the 10% space requirement (edit: actually 5% probably is the correct scaling), but remove the -1 Critical...

This thread gets woken up from time to time so I hope this is OK to jump in. I had a request for limited Radiation Shielding for a ship. So I am extending the rule in the High Guard update I am considering this simple tweak, opinions? Not run MgT, getting back to Traveller after a long hiatus...