Recent content by john_q_traveller

To be clear, the following questions are not specific to Mongoose Traveller, but I am hoping there is somebody here with enough knowledge of the other flavors of Traveller to be able to shed some light on my current predicament. I have been trying to get my head around the Economic Extension...

When our group ran it the difference in arms and armor between the PCs and the enemy characters kept things pretty spicy as it was (my character very nearly died). I should probably mentioned that our characters were already well established by the time we started SotA, and we had done quite...

In this regard Traveller, or at least MgT and the Third Imperium are well and thoroughly broken. Character creation alone means that there are not enough able bodied sapients that survive long enough (and avoid prison long enough) to become experienced professionals for the economy to function...

The problem with that is that they already exist for ships, and according to the 2022 update for High Guard, are available beginning at TL 14 (pages 82 - 83). They were also described in the previous version of High Guard, though they were not available until TL 16 (page 69).

@MongooseMatt Are submissions still being accepted for future releases?

As, @agentwigggles noted, there are quite a few differences. Yes, it does have an index, though it is only one page. IMO, it is not worth buying the new version. In fact, I would recommend the previous version over the current version.

I have published a significant update to the Player Finance Tracker. I have also added what I refer to as the Trade Tool to the release, as well as an alternative ship record. Highlights include: Player Finance Tracker Updated distribution algorithms to account for costs associated with...

@MyndkryM As it turns out, I have creatd two tools for exactly the purposes. They are part of a larger collection of various tools and assets, which is available at https://github.com/johnny-b-goode/traveller. The Player Finance Tracker (PFT) has already been published on Github. It does...

Some friends and I recently started a new game, and I decided to put together a spreadsheet to keep track of our characters finances. I wanted a relatively easy way to distribute revenues based on a combination of ship ownership and money invested in whatever venture turned a profit, as well as...

Let's take a closer look at your examples. First, the Falklands war was fourty years ago. There have been a few advances in almost every applicable technology since then. Even ignoring the technological difference between then and now, the HMS Sheffield, which still didn't sink until four days...

That's fair. To be a bit more clear, I'm thinking of shoulder fired higher powered versions of equivalent weapon technologies (ie, gauss, grav, laser, plasma, etc.). Perhaps they could even require some type of pack to provide power, plasma, cooling, whatever, or require very low round count...

Apparently read does not equate to understood. You seem to have missed the part about a new thread, and that I never said missiles are NOW obsolete. In fact, what I wrote, specifically, is: In the present day, missiles are already challenged by anti-missile systems. Technological advancements...

If you have read https://github.com/johnny-b-goode/traveller/blob/main/doc/overhaul-missiles.md#justification and would like to have an in-depth conversation rebutting any of the assertions made there, then I would be glad to take that up in another thread. Bear in mind that the vast majority of...

High Guard already includes energy shields (2e, page 69). The folks I play with and I all agree that missiles are not viable in an advanced technology setting, so I fixed them: https://github.com/johnny-b-goode/traveller/blob/main/doc/overhaul-missiles.md. Since the recent topic of this thread...

From Core Rulebook 2022, page 18, Basic Training: