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Crunchy on the outside, but soft and squishy on the inside. Of course, you can put them on grav bikes if you'd rather give a sense of jeorpardy. The space combat rules also basically allow you to somehow manage to disintegrate the spaceship around the players, without them necessarily being...

This isn't exactly taking the route of making the CHARACTERS tougher, but if you set up a fight where everyone has to basically sneak in whatever weapons they have, or find (improvise) one quick when the fighting kicks off, you can get a more extended fight. For example a gala dinner. Heavily...

"The only reason they don't give these jobs to the service robots is they've got a better union than us" - Dave Lister

If things go the way they are headed IRL, human pilots make no sense anymore. But neither do gunners, astrogators, soldiers, broom pushers, or (insert profession here). Unless you want to play Neptune's Brood, which is totally viable and could be a (different) RPG, you've go to nerf AI...

I don't worry too much about what the actual RAW is, because for me, it is only important whether it makes my game better or worse. IMTU, if you've got Medic 0 or better, you won't cause damage with a low roll. Implants CAN interfere with medical treatment - but only if it makes sense. If...

I have assumed that it is possible to make them on the cheap, if you can acquire living "volunteers". Legal complications may arise, unless you are positioned to be the one writing the laws. Some might also find the practice morally objectionable.

in principle a good idea, but with my players, the absolutely essential minimum would probably cover the whole table. We spend a lot of time flipping through books.

As far as I am aware, the programmer has no association with Mongoose: coolAlias, who has been generous enough to share the fruits of his work. But a lot of times, when we need something like this, someone does seem to come along with a program or a spreadsheet.

WBH is a great book. The design systems for objects fit together really well, so you end up with a real-feeling star system. You get enough information about the objects to give a quick description to the players if they go there. If they need to know if there's a certain chemical in the...

Steady on! I'm just explaining why, despite this true fact that you observe, Mongoose continues to publish modules. I responded to your post to add information to what you said, not to disagree with it. If you want to point out that you knew that already, the socially acceptable way to do...

You have to sell the referee-focused books to sell player-focused books. They are not independent of each other. Players want books to be able to play in the campaigns that the referees are running. If there are fewer books around for referees, there will be less refereeing going on, which...

Cherryh's The Company Wars books have some developed space station settings in them; if you want them to be interesting places it makes sense to do what she does and give them unique character and little micro-societies of their own. There's the original design and intention as a starting...

You misunderstand me. Your ship is only PRETENDING to have "merchant" as its main line of business. No doubt it does some merchant trading on the side, so as to appear more convincing. But you won't be able to make ends meet that way, since you have to pay for extra equipment, a largish crew...

True in general, but of course victims of piracy able to overcome their attacks could quite legitimately take the pirate ship as a prize (although there might be some rules about dividing it with possible legitimate owners). They might also find some of the pirates have bounties on their heads...

Horsell Common is a good vantage point from which to do this, or so I am told by my fellow intellects, vast, cool and unsympathetic.