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I think this is a rather foolish way of looking at things. The resources of the antagonists should always correlate and scale with those of the PCs, because the purpose of those NPCs is to provide an appropriately challenging obstacle for the PCs to overcome. The "Honor Among Thieves" adventure...

It is! Very hard. To ignore all of the magitech and call it "hard sci-fi".

On the subject of a deep space fuel dump, if that's a direction you're interested in developing, it might be worth remembering that Space Is Really Big™. And the odds of there not being a single usable block of ice -- be something small like a (very?) long period comet or something big like a...

I suspect the biggest issue to the Third Imperium's "rearranging" star systems on any meaningful scale is that it renders a lot of the existing narrative elements of the setting obsolete. As, if the Third Imperium is capable of organizing engineering projects that require the amounts of...

I don't actually think an updated Merchant Prince needs to be a priority, but it'd also be nice if -- it isn't to be a priority -- that "Making A Living Sidebar" on Pg. 210 of the 2e Core Rulebook didn't seem to indicate that another Merchant Prince was coming soon enough in the near future to...

I tend not to have much to say because I've been running a personal/solo PoD game for four-and-a-half years now, and the premises for my Pirates game has drifted so far in its assumptions from the core campaign that most of what I have to add that actually relates to the game requires a textwall...

I think you're right that the way to approach this is via denial of access to their Halaheike, but I'd approach it from the other end of the spectrum: Devise a positive situation that requires the PCs to make a decision on where to allocate scarce resources. One example might be, for example...

That's in the vein of how I tackled the issue when I had to deal with it. I framed it as the Imperial Navy generally smiling upon efforts to restore Drinax, as a revived Drinax poses no military threat to the Imperium and its ships can safely be counted on to stand athwart the ihatei tide. Which...

That's just poor spellchecking on my part. Phasers set for maximum derp there. It should read: "A Severity 1 critical hit occurs whenever an attack does damage greater than or equal to 10% of a combatant's maximum Hull;" Edited the main post to reflect that.

On avoiding crit-chains, my house rules on Sustained Damage are as follows: 1) A Severity 1 critical hit occurs whenever an attack does damage greater than or equal to 10% of the combatant's maximum Hull; 2) A Severity 1 critical hit occurs when a combatant sustains damage equal to 25%, 50%, and...

Isn't that a little high-handed? The actual game mechanics of the Mongoose editions of Traveller are remarkably modular and capable of supporting most scales of gaming: The only significant RAW hardcoding to limit the scope of things is that there is no FTL ansible and that FTL travel is...

With the lack of FTL ansible, the proof of someone's service would almost certainly come from the equivalent of the DD-214 form that the American military uses, which would be furnished by the individual to prove-up their service history.

It's not really cheeky. It's a reference to this: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/79659/Supplement-7-1001-Characters?cPath=161_4511. And it's fair to wonder if there's anything wrong with it. (Though it was also fairly obvious from your initial post that you didn't seem to be aware that...

A lot of the discussion in the thread is predicated on the assumption that you need to haul the H2 fuel across the stars at FTL speeds. But is that necessarily so? MgT 2e is, after all, a setting that's got reactionless drives that will produce motive force so long as power's fed into them and...

I've always thought the RAW badly mishandled Theev, to put it mildly. I always ran the world as something akin to a Barbary kingdom, an Algiers in SPAAAAAACE, a world whose survival depends entirely upon exacting of tribute from traders and active state involvement with piracy, which survives...