Recent content by locarno24

It was a very good narrative idea and beats 'half hour exposition dump' into a cocked hat.

Honestly my absolute favourite bit of the Mongoose Traveller 1e Secrets of the Ancients was chapter 6: The Secret. It's intended as a kind of interactive monologue/exposition dump but I love the adventure so much. Playing as full on ancient-era agents of Grandfather and co, with missions...

To be fair, the 'darker side' of the imperium still pops up in things like secrets of the ancients with the totally unofficial prison hulk and imperial agents like Galen.

We're running a game of "How The Communists Stole [Classified]" for our Christmas game night tomorrow. Looking forward to playing the game again after ages. We'll be using Paranoia XP since I don't have the new rule set, but who knows: this might trigger a demand for more games of Paranoia...

But is it possible to suffer a critical hit to the jacuzzi deck?

Had a look - looks rather interesting, though I'm not sure I want to grab a brand new system. The idea that the ships are AI is quite workable in Traveller, too, with sufficient automation, though, making crew a nice-to-have rather than something mandatory.

Thanks for input! I'll have a look. That sounds quite interesting - makes me think of various Ian M Banks books, which is always a good start. Kind of. I wasn't wanting a huge roster of crew, so I was probably going to work with the way hired crew is modelled in Pirates of Drinax - that you...

Has anyone ever played a campaign where the players each have a ship (of a 300-ish dTons or so) as their 'character'? Was wondering about how a small sector fleet squadron would play during a big conflict (5th frontier war or some similar setting). Does anyone have any experience/advice?

Glad to hear it. Also: They have now passed the funding tier to unlock that, I believe.

Must say I love the art style. The primer's artwork of the longhouse with an eighties-style jukebox next to the firepit made me smile a lot for some reason. Also, I like the universally available accessibility aid - we've not seen the injury rules yet, but the idea that as long as a player's...

Central Supply Catalogue, Emergency Softsuit. I work on the above - essentially any reasonable number of softsuits, which will keep you alive in a decompression but are naff all use for EVA work, boarding, etc, etc. If you plan on going outside and need radiation shielding, or plan on having a...

Has anyone any interest in doing a PbP on here? I've been reading some rather nice sci-fi books and find myself imagining doing a rather higher-level, combat heavy traveller game. Would people here be interested?

Thanks. I was looking at some house rules I did a while back for using Battlefield Evo to do more detailed dogfighting for Babylon 5 fighters. The situation came up where one unit was caught in a fire zone centred on a second, and I wasn't actually sure if the first unit was eligible to react...

Just came up reading through the old books, and I can't find an answer. "Whenever an enemy unit completes a shoot action against one of your units" is a trigger for a reaction, but what does this actually mean? ~ Only the unit that the model you initially targeted (i.e. the one the fire zone...

Chopping up boarding parties?