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No lab does not equal no science. A scientist can generally look at a phenomena in their field and tell you some things about it; sometimes these things are very important. 1. No gear: Give the scientists a few minutes, scientists can look at something with no lab and no kit and give you...

A lab will have most types of scientific equipment for a particular type of scientist. Much of it will have overlap for other fields. It will have bigger, more reliable and robust versions of the stuff in a science toolkit, plus things that are hard to minaturize. There is adequate space to...

The Crimson Permanent Assurance brings both piracy and insurance under one office. It seems like a conflict of interest, likely to result in barratry.

According to a Mongoose published adventure which I won't name because of spoilers, nothing happens due to the reactor. There is a lot more potential for interesting reactions if you go after the hydrogen fuel with incendiaries. The reactor doesn't NEED that much fuel to provide a lot of...

I guess we are talking about LLM type AIs, I know there are other ones but these are the ones I encounter in my work. The problem seems not really to be AI per se, but the way it presents as a reliable expert when it is not. So students think it has written them a quality fact based essay...

I think you misunderstand the nature of learning. The students need to do the thing they are learning for themselves in order to learn how to do it. Having AI do it means you are not learning to do it. Remember back in elementary school when they wouldn't let you use a calculator until you'd...

Smash the looms! The Luddites get a bad rap. I'm starting to warm to their way of thinking.

The main problem with using AI to write or produce art is that the product tend to range from very bad to bad to mediocre. Of course, you can edit it to be better - but if you have the skills for that, you're better off just writing it in the first place. If you don't have the skills for...

I'd definitely NOT fold insurance into PC's mortgages, just because they are adventurers in a space opera setting. This could lead to problems for them. But, problems are also adventure hooks. In general, I'd assume that PCs are the sort of cowboys and cowgirls that try to skirt by without...

I am happy that Mongoose is taking this stance. As an educator, I make students actually learn the skills and produce materials themselves. The less capable of them resent this, but they don't need me and don't need a degree if all they want is to ask AI to do it for them: they can go do that...

So, like real history, except only 40 years instead of 4000

If every word that came out of Mongoose had to be vetted and thoroughly checked over for consistency, nothing would ever get published. I think what Mongoose, and all the other Traveller associated companies, have managed to but together is actually quite impressive. There are inconsistencies...

Refereeing the Deepnight campaign, my players have gone through big chunks of Charted Space where the UWPs get pretty unworkable as is. However, you just make it into what you want it to be. Take a sci fi story you thought was cool, give the players are reason to go to where it will be set...

World of Greyhawk is *one* world. Charted Space has tens of thousands of star systems. It is only natural that the attention given to each planet will be limited at best, and often there are only random numbers or nothing at all.

If low tech worlds buy lots of imports, they are going to be having constant trade balance problems. With a unified currency, this will end up also being a balance of payments problem, and they'll end up currency-poor and have difficulty with liquidity locally. Unless they have some very...