Recent content by Nelphine

I want to play the character the dice give me. Mind you, if i have a choice, I'd like to roll 3 to 5 full characters, pick one, and give the rest to the ref as NPCs (contacts, allies, rivals, enemies, whatever works). But i hate 'deciding ahead'. I realize I'm in the minority, but, I think of...

It doesn't matter where they buy it. This is still a game, and if no one at the table knows, they'll often roll for it - say, Streetwise or military rank or profession. Or they'll ask a contact for it. Enough games out there exist like this, shadowrun comes to mind, that the players including...

Unless honour matters enough that you can't literally buy it (oh no, I am dishonored. I buy every castle in the kingdom. Dishonor me? None of them have a home. Who's dishonored now? Oh they don't want to sell? I buy every farm around them. Oh they don't want to sell? I buy every merc in the...

Two things: One, players always want to buy, say explosives. Explosives, or high end chemicals or biologicals, absolutely make a huge difference to a game, even if not a fight with supernatural aliens. If you can blow a 3km whole in the ground, that often let's you skip entire scenarios/booby...

I like to do "you keep the relative velocity that you had compared to the star you left, but now applied to the star you come out near" So I don't need to bother figuring out any relative velocities between the two stars - they never get compared. If I was going 100kph spinward of the star I...

Yeah generally wealth stats turn into 'don't bother using it because what does it do?' Or 'max it out so you can buy anything, then your referee says no because it will break the game, then you get annoyed that you wasted any time on the stat'

Depends on the prison planet. One type of prison planet is 'we dump you, and never come back for you' so the child CAN'T join the draft because there is no official way off world for the child.

Because the English language is soooo wonderful! Lol Another contradiction that isn't apparent until you spend a lot of time thinking about it

I would define a prisoner by the 4 year term. The prisoners term is very specific in what skills and events are available, and they imply a classic Hollywood prison, not a prison colony. In today's terms, I would fully expect a prison colony to figure out computers and basic currency, and so a...

Yup, one of those very large contradictory pieces of information about the setting, where a thing makes sense, but leads to a lot of very large problematic questions when you think about it too long.

I think fabricators (replicators, star trek food thingies) really throw it out the window. When traveller was designed, having huge infrastructures to build higher tech made sense. So, it was completely plausible for worlds to simply be missing crucial infrastructure, and therefore, for worlds...

And I would glass a planet if and only if there significant military assets on the planet, that I couldn't control. For instance factories capable of producing a significant fleet (significant meaning big enough that I would need to noticeably reduce my chances of overall winning the war in...

That's 8 billion, not trillion

Personally, I agree. If you're going to defend a planet well enough that I can't reasonably conquer it, for instance with numerous meson emplacement (assuming they can hit small craft), then I HAVE to glass it so that you don't build a fleet and attack me from behind. I can't keep most of my...

I think DC does X-COM great justice.