Recent content by Morgoth99

Of course one issue is there are still aspects of the TL system dating from when Traveller was written--and in that time, things like Nanotech, fabrictors, and such really didn't exist in hard sci-fi settings at least. They7 were more often moved to the realms of pulp and sci-fantasy. One of my...

I think one problem is that there sees to be a little confusion on just what a TL encompasses. In Singularity a TL 18 AI is fluffed as bieng barely understandable by lower TLs. Which implies that the jump between tech levels represents a change in kind, not degree, and yet in other places, like...

Okay, here's my question. In the High Guard book we have a TL16 conscious ship's system. In the Robots handbook, Conscious brains are TL17. Now it makes sense because even a small ship probably just has lots more processors than a robot brain. BUT, the Central Supply Catalog book allows a...

I like this. There's something to be said for campaigns that aren't going to change the galaxy, or heck, even the subsector. BJ and the Bear never saved the President from a secret cabal. still fun, though. and let's face it the galaxy is huge enough that you can spend your entire career in one...

so, needing to pick and choose which one I get since i'm poor. But I was gonna ask a question if anyone can give me a one sentence synop of the following articles to help me decide: Volume 15: High Guard: Beyond Jump-6, and volume 16: Charted Space: Extending the Computer into the Crew and...

There's one simple limite4r-- the bigger the ship, the bigger the cost. The Kkree ship can take decades to build and the world ship of the Skyraiders was also a generational projuct--and put bluntly, they are still vulnerable to attack from smaller ships. so even if you can build a 50 million...

We have that one KKree world ship in a JTAS article with is, I think 90 million tons?

So now, for this, how many examples of each category would you think would be acceptable?

Sindalian AIs in a campaign: “Too many zombies spoil the story.” Which is to say, there was a time when zombie movies were fairly rare—then they got popular. And suddenly, you couldn’t walk through a bookstore or scroll down your streaming service without being smacked in the face by a...

Of course, it being more powerful than anything but pirate hunters or Q-ships provides an issue for the players. "Do we move fast and earn a lot of money, and thus get the things that can hurt us looking for us specifically... or do we move slowly, and possibly get the King annoyed at our slow...

Yeah, and keep in mind the neat thing about the campaign settings is that they also include all kinds of stuff that you can use even if you don't want to go with the way the campaign is set, so they are still worth purchasing just for the background material. Though to be fair, I think (and...

The thing is, I was involved in Traveler gaming when the rebellion and Virus hit very hard. Megatraveller and the rebellion era could, if you wanted to, be taken for campaigns that didn't want to interact withit, either by sticking to places where the rebellion wasn't, or simply picking and...

I kinda like the idea that every big adventure series is happening in its own setting and doesn't mix with others. Because honestly, a lot of them wouldn't play well, given how many big changes the PC's may have made. It also lets people who want to play in the rebellion/hardtimes/virus era do...

As a less expensive and more disposable form of robot, clones were commonly used in the Empire. While never trusted with important positions, clone soldiers and functionaries had no ties with the subjects of the empire, and as property, knew they could never profit from treason—after all, even...

researching this, there appears to be a contradiction in the rules: Nuemann is explicitly the site of a gray goo disaster, but it was a TL 15-16 world--and yet, "Gray Goo" in the robot construction book is a TL23 development. (My personal thought is that the robot book is wrong, because TL 23 is...