Recent content by Minty

The thing that bothered me is that, well, labour still exists, but remuneration is, at best, wishy-wasy. It's stated a few times that, at least on Earth, people work not for money but to better themselves and those around them. and for certain jobs I can fully see that. I think being a starship...

I've used ekranoplans in a number of sci-fi settings and games. They are, under the right circumstances really good vehicles. If you have any planet with a lot of water, or with a lot of flat land you're golden. They are more efficient to build and operate than aeroplanes. They are far faster...

I'd like to talk about the sort of ship one might own when one has real money. When 50 megacreds for the core-book Yacht is slumming it. We've all seen superyachts of the maritime variety, so let's run with that. I created one myself for the Marchioness of the Subsector where I set all my...

You know... I sit here stunned. In all these years I've never ever noticed that Trav had no Perception mechanic... Well hell. no wonder I like this game because you're damned right it's a bitch to adjudicate and never seems to sit right with me whatever game I'm running. So to answer your...

Dragoner has the right of it. Space Prates look like an other private crew. They wear vac-suits or jump suits or coverals. They have tattoos and piercings, but who doesn't? They might well have more scars than most people, but even that's not certain. The one thing that is certain is that the...

I created a world with that sort of culture. The population largely follow an ancestor-venerating religion, going back to the first colonists. They didn't start out as a matriarchy, but over time and with vagaries of uncertain male-line tracing they became more and more matriarchal as...

Wow! You're really going to town, Tom. I've added your worlds to my world library. I can tell you right now that I will get some flak from my group when they see a words called Tolkien... I already have a reputation as a fanboy there. I think it might be my favourite so far, though. The idea...

Perfect, and very adventure-friendly. Thank you. Absolutely feel free to contribute more, if you want to. If you want to keep putting your generator through the loops. The format of the UWP etc doesn't matter, I can reformat that when I put the info into my player handouts. Same with things...

0213 (Prospero) A9809B5-C Desert, High-Tech, Industrial, Non-Aggricultural, Rich Mean Solar Day: 27 Hours Sidereal Year: 417 Days Governer: Baron (Marquis) Ushullan Mon-Mallon Local Navy: ~400Kt Berthing Fee: KCr.4/Kt HIGH,- KCr.3/Kt LOW Prospero was not the first world of Subsector Prospero...

A long (long) time ago I created my own Subsector to run games in. Subsector Elan. I rolled all the dice (fudged the results until they were less crazy), made a map and all that good stuff. Wrote out little precis for each world etc. Like you do. Then later I created another Subsector, next...

I like to imagine the 'sand' is made from materials which scatter more than just visible light. Of course, finding one substance that's opaque to all wavelengths and high-energy particles is hard, but there's no reason why a sand canister can't contain several different materials which between...

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