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Weapon traits like "inaccurate" and "unreliable" always bring to my mind this passage from Mark Twain's Roughing It: "He wore in his belt an old original "Allen" revolver, such as irreverent people called a "pepper-box." Simply drawing the trigger back, cocked and fired the pistol. As the...

You see, you wake up thinking that going to be the case, but then life takes some twists and turns and suddenly you find yourself in a situation.

But which canons are canon and which canons are not canon canons? Are FC canons canon? Some would prefer to ignore the non-canon canons, but in my game, I use both canon canons and non-canon canons, because for me having a variety of canons is more important than sticking to a strictly canon...

Can you reduce the slots if you accept short stubby replacement arms and legs instead of full-length ones? It could be all your health insurance will cover...

Once a bucket has been used for "a general purpose," I very much hope that it will no longer be considered suitable for use with the drinking water. Purposes should not be THAT general.

I've been handwaving a lot on fabricators refereeing the DNR, which has "fabrication areas" and Engineering is charged with "general maintenance and fabrication of components" but that's the limit of information on that topic. There are workshops big and small and a "construction deck", so...

Universe Sandbox make great images. My computer is too slow to run it, otherwise I'd use it all the time. Should get an upgrade but its hard to justify for just that one thing.

Buckets. I'll leave it at that.

unless something is broken. then power suddenly can become very limiting indeed. Nobody wants to have heat dissipation radiators sticking out of their ship in every direction, which is what would happen if you paid attention to waste heat. Better to ignore it than to have stupid looking...

Yeah, this does partially solve the problem, although I'd probably give certain archaic armour higher ratings, melee weapons better odds against certain ballistic protection armours and better options for medieval can-openers-on-a-stick to get higher AP ratings - maybe the RAW is good enough as...

It could be a slippery slope down that rabbit hole. Hit location is also something which should be addressed; low tech armours often go full body, and so do very high-tech ones, but mid-tech tends to focus on protecting the head and torso, probably because this allows significant protection...

We run into the problem that armour value in Traveller is just a single number - except for laser protection. But IRL, low-tech armours tend to be very effective against melee weapons and to a greater or lesser extent muscle-powered ranged weapons, but much less effective against firearms. On...

Everything is its own thing; analogies are always inexact, but it is a way of explaining. If you want to draw a straight, explicit, line to Space Vikings, then of course it has to be Sword Worlders.

IMTU Ihatei invasions seem to be to be less of a military incursion, and more of a cross between settlers and illegal immigrants. Maybe like Vikings,they would settle, raid, conquer, or just get killed off depending on how the odds stack up in whatever place they end up landing in, on local...

IRL, full auto tends to run through ammo really, really fast, and makes the gun more difficult to control, so that esp. with certain guns, recoil makes the gun less and less accurate as you go. It seems to me, burst is underpowered - it should be more like full auto somehow, with the...