Recent content by Midnightplat

There's like a whole board underneath the pinned section for that.... the incessant digressions far off the topic of book releases really does the purpose of a pinned thread like this a disservice.

You're using criminal negligence incorrectly. People die undergoing or as a consequence of complications of relatively routine medical procedures (including anesthesia). Rarely are such deaths considered murder, and for the most part only in the most negligent or fraudulent circumstances...

There are global maritime codes, and things like transponders on IRL surface ships are being messed with now, because they carry them by those codes, in order to attempt end runs around things like oil sanctions. We are also typing to each other on a globally agreed upon system. Do occasional...

SERE is another one of those schools that "everyone" is supposed to go to, but not just SF so it becomes another chokepoint in the pipeline. Night Stalkers, plus other branch air crews and operators, etc. I might be wrong, but I was under the impression you could deploy with your team with some...

You ever hear the Marine credo "every Marine is a rifleman"? The other branches have a similar sentiment. (To be clear, never served in a military branch. I did work in federal law enforcement for just under a decade surrounded by a lot of veterans who did serve in a wide range of MOSs. I've...

I'm really curious how quickly a Traveller surpasses their life's skill development once they leave their careers and begin Travelling. Level 0 skills are not 4-6 hour seminars. In the game's terms, after their careers level 0s take 8 weeks of training to try the EDU roll. They're the...

But to speak more generally on criminal "mercenaries". Criminal orgs tend to not use freelancers unless they're looking for patsies, realistically. The myth of the freelance assassin is rarely a thing outside of a "legitimate" mercenary taking on criminal work, but the criminal org would not...

Seth's overview of Traveller convinced me to try Traveller. Looking forward to watching this.

On criminal "jobs" if you read the novel sequel to the movie Heat, Heat 2, they go deeper into a how a "high line crew" like the robber characters in Heat go about getting lucrative criminal work; and then there's so much more on different types of criminal organizations and how trust and...

I'm not on Twitter anymore, but this time last year a bunch of TTRPG people were getting ready for MegaDungeon 2023, the MegaDungeon is sorta like a year long National Novel Writing Month exercise. The rule is simply 12 levels, 365 rooms done in the year. Your bad brain has a great idea for...

There are a few polities' intelligence branches who believe the Dryone may be ahead of everyone else with the closely guarded secret of the Tachyon Fax Machine. Why:

To me Procurator Fiscal sounds like someone bound to do their duties within a pre-defined fiscal term. Much like SAUSAs (Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys) in the U.S. federal system are only "special" in that their working a defined contract limited to a year or two, whereas regular Assistant...

Yes! That's the one I meant, I had it filed in my head as "Station Murder Mystery" so when I skimmed the titles of my actual scenarios file I just grabbed the first title that popped up thinking "that's it."

Most def, and even Traveller "classics" do that. Death Station is basically a Agatha Christie / Hercule Poirot who dunnit.

Sword of Damocles is being wielded the wrong way as a descriptor for the dynamic or motivation under critique here. Unless the players are the sword and the assignment is to deflect the players as a threat to their patron's power. A Faustian bargain isn't "you get a good in exchange for doing...