Recent content by jtfc

It should be step 9 I would think, assuming that it still counts as 4 years if you have a mishap. Otherwise, it would be step 10. Looks good otherwise! I like the compressed charts.

Please note the bolded portion. What is happening here is that somebody with a bad history has been banned. I seriously doubt that you know what is happening here. I'm quite certain that I do not.

For Luna, you'd have to ship in atmosphere, water and other supplies. Mars, on the other hand, would easily be self-sustaining, because the base compounds you need (CO2, water, a neutral gas) are plentiful. I think any place you could maintain and grow a population with TL8 technology and no...

I certainly cannot say this with any authority, but it would not surprise me if you could live underground on Mars with an air compressor and a power source. While I agree the surface in uninhabitable for the reasons you mentioned (plus other ones like random meteorites and 250mph winds), you...

My preference would be for dependent tables. For example: Table 1 is Planet Size. Tabe 2E is Atmosphere for large planets. Table 3EA is Population for large planets with no atmosphere, modified by nearness to a trade route. Table 4EAC is tech level for large planets with not atmosphere...

Neither. The capital ship would never get enough shots to sink the cruise liner before the liner got out of range. Since the cruise liner is unarmed, the liner would not be able to sink the capital ship. I suppose eventually the capital ship would run out of fuel and then after the crew of...

And history repeated itself during the Falkland Islands war. The QEII was sent without escort to get troops from England to Argentina. It could outrun the Argentine ships, and the Mirage missiles that took out the Sheffield would bounce off the QEII (aluminum hull vs. steel hull). People tend...

but maybe somebody can explain it to me here. There's a -1 per other career for virtually all jobs in chargen. My question is...why? "I'm sorry, we aren't interested in having you as a Pirate, you have too much experience as a Navy pilot." "Got busted out of the Marines for taking bribes...

thebeard has touched on this, but I think you're dead wrong. For one thing, how do you think merchant ships are designed? Take a military ship, take off the guns, the redundancies so it can continue to fight in combat, the space for marines, etc. What do you have left? A merchant ship. Want...

Wow, those two examples were excellent. Mongoose just got a new customer. :) If I were Mongoose, I'd ask to use Klaus' example verbatim, just fixing small errors (iirc, you have timing as the high die and effect as the low dice on autofire, and the 3.2 rules say the low die has to be the...

Thanks Sable, that does help!

I'm either going to buy the game and play Canon (with maybe a little streamlining), or I'm not going to buy the game. If I cannot play the combat system as written, then I'll buy something else. I do not know if Supplement Four feels the same way, but I'll wager that a large percentage of...

The trick is to get them willing to do the first fight. I don't think the rules are all that complex, just written for somebody who understands RPGs really well, and it's too intimidating for them. I'm not explaining what I need very well, I think. Let me start.... "You were looking...

OK, I give up. I need some help. Sorry if this isn't the right place. We're getting sick of D&D, and we try to decide what to play next. One of our players says "I have all the MegaTraveller books. Let's do Traveller!" and the rest of us agreed. So, I get on the internet, and I discover that...