Recent content by khazwind

The answer is, you don't have Sword+Shield skill and Spear+Shield skill, you have Roman Legionaire skill, frex. I have a character with two combat styles: Yelornan Infantry (sword, spear, shield, archery) Yelornan Cavalry (lance, shield, spear, horse archery, sword) Depending on situation I...

Since we have a new version of MRQ (and new source books are promised), could I ask for a more exhaustive selection of cults? Cults 1 and 2 were okay, but not (I´m sorry to say) brilliant and missing several cults. Frex, where is Krarsht? I know there´s a big discussion as to the prevalence of...

Well, as someone pointed out above, the world is a stage set. It really is a question of what you and the players need. For an archetypal free-traders type game, I'd suggest you need a lot of detail so the players can get into the nitty-gritty of planning their journeys. Somebody mentioned...

Just flicking through it now. I got to the section on crimes and suggested punishments. In the Civic and Financial section it says bigamy carries a sentence of 1 year per count. I always thought the punishment for bigamy was two wives. ;)

This happened in a game I was running recently. The characters wanted to get somewhere fast, jumped in their air/raft and sped off. The pilot got a text message from the ship computer that 100Cr had just been added to their docking fee and a message to stop speeding immediately.

Personally, as a GM, I'll let any PC plan work. The caveat being, there has to be a plan. If the players just walk into a conflict, they're gonna get slapped silly. If they they can come up with something reasonably intelligent, I'll let it work. Heck, in a fantasy game, I had a player tie...

"We demand a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may, or may not be, Vroomfondel." "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." Gotta love Douglas Adams. The universe is a big place and there's certainly space for more unusual/alien pre-human cultures. Plus, there's...

I could be wrong. I could be VERY wrong, but my feeling about grimoires is: a) It's a phrasebook. I read the Grimoire and I learn a couple of spells, whatever spells are in there. I can cast these at a basic level. I don't need the book to cast them. b) It's a manual. I can study the book and...

This is probably the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of. It dwarfs the hospital episode of Doctor Who for nausea. I love the moral quandry this would put the players in. Good work, captainjack23, well done. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

The only instinct that keeps mating fights from being fatal is the instinct for the weaker animal to back down. Animals often kill each other within their own species. And, as an aside, some animals kill for fun and a lot of animals, particularly lions, will kill infants of their own species to...

I don't know, the view that, "they are tough warrior types, therefore they must be like samurai," is getting to be a cliche, not just in Traveller but in SF generally. Well, either samurai or klingons. Aslan are more concerned with territory than cultural acceptance AFAIK. OTOH, you reference...

Hells yes, we need good supplements. I'm really just talking about how they would be presented, from the Aslan POV in thise case. I'm thinking C.J. Cherryh's Chanur books here. Not as a guide to the Aslan, rather the way that the books were entirely from an alien POV. Re-read them and notice...

... which sounds very controversial, but wait! I have a point. MGP have done an excellent job with RQ. Heck, they even made the dragonnewts playable while remaining totally incomprehensible. I'd like to see that level of insight and creativity brought to bear on Trav races. OTOH, I'm wary of...

I had this idea: the players are hired to transport a hiver to a system where he/she/it knows there is a hiver vessel/medical center/whatever. The hiver has, essentially, the 'flu. It's not cross-contagious, so the crew are not in danger. However, part-way through jump, the hiver spikes a high...

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