Recent content by MasterGwydion

You can Fabricate an asteroid hull... :P So, in theory you'd be able to make them on an assembly line/manufacturing plant/shipyard as well, making them all identical if you wished.

I would say that you are describing the difference between INT and EDU. Low INT high EDU, can't think their way out of a paper bag. High INT low EDU, geniuses with figuring things out and doing things in clever new ways. Or you go the other way and make it meaningless, just like all of the UWP...

Use the TL Eras for this. Based on the character's background, set a rough TL of their experiences. Check and see what Era that is. Anything of that Era is uneffected. Other Eras can get a -3 Untrained penalty due to not being familiar with the technology. This can be overcome with one or more...

Yeah. The best way to asteroid mine in Traveller is with a Largecraft. 100+ dtons, but no jump drive.

Prospectors need to travel. Miners, on the other hand, would mostly stay in one place.

You are correct that it is not born out by the rules. It is born out by the intent of those rules though. So the rules should be changed to reflect Minimum EDU scores based on prior education. This is how the CRB defines EDU on page 9 "Education (EDU): A measure of a Traveller’s learning and...

Seems to Me that the skills of the Truther would be the same as a university scientist. Science skills. Writing skills. Computer skills. Investigation skills. Speaking skills. Party skills. If all military service was just a trip to the gun range, sure. Go ask a soldier how much training they...

I am not. I am trying to figure out what the definition of Truther is and why Mongoose felt the need to take up pages in one of its books with this garbage. The Truth is that anyone can be a conspiracy theorist regardless of career path. Anyone can run a podcast on the side and peddle in...

I think you are severely confused. By your logic, there is no such thing as a Truther Career path in Traveller, because the only thing that can create a Truther is the government or some similar body. You are saying that to be a Truther, the "government" must be against you. So, in other words...

That just means that We are not smart enough to do it yet or you haven't spent enough time researching family trees in West Virginia, USA...lol

Didn't they have something like this in the Cosmopolite book?

Technically, intelligence agencies also employ "Truthers", although they specifically know that the Truth that they are preaching is false. Edit - and almost anyone in the PR industry.

Personally, I think they need to completely redo the entire taxonomic system using only DNA as a reference point. Then they would actually be more accurate.

Yeah, but Tobacco is too easy to Fabricate and in an environment of interstellar trade. The tech required can be purchased within a few parsecs. That is true of most things that are organic. High-grade coffee for me and @Terry Mixon lol

You mean like everything in Charted Space? Just out of curiosity, is anything written in published material, that is actually an out-of-universe source for Charted Space? In-universe sources are great for story for the players but are bad for the setting when you have no sources that are...