Recent content by MasterGwydion

Nowadays you get a below-entry-level position and are given the title of supervisor or manager. It is gaslighting/participation trophy kind of crap in the workplace, so I am not surprised that you are not familiar. :P

Are they? They might be. I haven't seen the data. I will say though, that after I hadn't played Traveller in years, it wasn't the rulebooks that brought me back. It was Pirates of Drinax.

He didn't. The writers did when they allowed those in the Charted Space setting. Another example of why I constantly harp on about internal consistency.

Except everyone is corrupt (your assertation), so you just bribe the patrol commander and go on about your merry way.

True, I have had a bunch of players turned off when they realize that they don't get to build their characters. They don't have any real choice. They roll the dice and the dice tell them what character they are playing. Most games are that way with stats, but Traveller is that way with skills...

I may be way off base here, so take it with a grain of salt. I think the reason for that is because most fantasy realms are roughly similar. This makes the rules more important than the setting, because they are all basically the same (with a few minor differences). Most are swords, armor...

I used the shuttle for my example specifically because it was not as aerodynamic as a missile or rocket. I reasoned that the space shuttle launch would be a closer analog to a Traveller Shuttle lifting off.

Yeah. Could be up to 120% the price of a finished item. I tend to use 90% for complex high tech (Specialist Plant) things. 50% for middling complexity stuff (Advanced) and 25% for everything else (Basic and Agriculture). In a fabricator you are not using those plants, but I still use that as a...

I would switch it up to 90% as the materials cost. See if it still makes money. Ships are very complicated items and require some expensive materials. One the flip side, ships are mostly empty space (probably 90% or so) and the fabricator doesn't need to fabricate empty space, so that means...

No idea. They are mentioned in the Robot Handbook.

It is easy to see the reason for that. How many rule books can you really put out before you have too many rules? Maybe 5 or 6? If you build a setting, how many setting books can you put out? Hundreds? Thousands? That is where companies make their money, on their settings, not their rules. It is...

Class D Class C Seems like at Class D and below, as long as you land more than 10km away from the Starport, they can't really monitor you. Class C and up seems to monitor the whole planet, so on those worlds it would be more bribery-style smuggling. On Class D and below it seems to be more of...

I always forget about them, but they don't tend to travel, so they are easy to ignore/forget.

How do they know how much money they are losing? The people who write the reports are the ones accepting the bribes. In the US it is still easy to buy untaxed cigarettes even though it is illegal. Then again, it is illegal to buy/sell/traffic children, but that is done in the US as well, just...

Agreed. They did that, but they messed it up at the same time by changing the rules, so the Traveler CRB is not the CRB for these other worlds. See above I argue the opposite. Not enough resources are being spent on quality control. If it stops putting out Charted Space products, I will...