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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.

It is possible to check if missiles are radioactive. You could keep them in a lead-lined magazine (a good idea anyways), but this is likely to arouse suspicion. If they're stored next to the fusion plant, the radiation might be hard to differentiate. But storing your missiles next to the...

I used it to map a system my players will be headed to soon, and it worked very well. It will definitely allow me to show the system's astrography, which will really enhance the experience a lot in the exploratory campaign I am running. While it is fully usable as is for my purposes, there...

Looks fantastic!

It's because it is just an awesome name for a ship class. So of course you have to use it.

Maybe animals studies have more potential. Take 100 bunnies, and replace the legs of 50 of them with robotic spring legs. Or any other kind of leg you want to test out. Train them for a couple of months to hop again. You will need a physical therapist with expertise in bunny recovery. This...