Recent content by Nog

Uhm. I looked at the basic prices you'd expect for food. I read: "A standard meal typically costs Cr5-50 credits or more per person, depending on quality and service. A burger of unidentiiable meat-like substances eaten standing up in a fast-food joint may cost just Cr2-3; a fine meal at the...

I'll try to explain myself once more, and then give up. Suppose the technology of tomorrow made available for 40 000 USD a machine capable of converting 1Kg of lead to 1Kg of gold per day (with a lifecycle of 10-20 years and negligible operating expenses). "INCREDIBLY CHEAP!" you say. "Today...

No, they are not! They may be if compared to what they would cost today (is that even meaningful?). But they are fiendishly expensive for the use they are put to in the OTU. 1 ton of "Free Trader" cargo space costs more than half a million credits, i.e. more than 500 times what you get paid...

Assuming a rough equivalence of 1Cr ~ 1USD ~ 1 EUR, I just realized that it costs slightly more to ship 100 tons of cargo in the real world from Paris to Sydney (excluding taxes, port operations etc.) than it costs to ship the same amount of cargo from Sol to Alpha Centauri in the Traveller...

It depends. If you use the optional "iron man" rule that allows your characters to die if they fail a survival roll, it's actually quite easy - albeit time consuming to ensure that you roll a 7 in the first term Events (granting a Life Event), followed by a 6 (granting an unusual event) and...

Japanese has no "L"s! (EDIT: and Hawaian, cited below, has no "S"s and no "F"s!) To me Aslan sounds vaguely like an African language, somewhere between a Bantu and a Khoe language, but that's probably only because I speak none myself :) The colours of the Aslan spaceships also look African to me!

A PC from the Floating palace rolls on the Life Events table on her first term. She rolls a 6 (unusual event) followed by a 2: "You are psionic! Roll to test your Psionic Strength immediately, and gain DM+4 to the roll." Her age is 18: it is her first term, and following the career flowchart...

Hmm, thanks, it appears nice but: 1) I've never seen a forum that only allows you to see the first post of a thread unless you are registered and logged in. 2) I've never seen a forum that requires you giving them an email that is NOT gmail, NOT hotmail, and NOT a host of other commonly used...

On a whim, I recently acquired the Classic Traveller CD. The idea was to mine it for ideas, locations, information about alien races etc.; after all, the price was pretty low for the whole package, and I heard the system was sufficiently close to Mongoose Traveller. Well. I am in awe! At a...

Oh yes! Good errata -> Move customer base three steps towards Haven. The small but successful Atlas Games does it for Ars Magica, and I can testify it helps customers a lot and engenders significant loyalty to the line.

For several reasons. First, it might not make any sense to me, but still be correct. To most people on today's Earth, the fact that time in orbit runs more quickly than on the ground makes no sense. But it's still true (relativity at work!), and without adjusting for this fact GPS would not...

I think it was a sensible answer to the question you asked: "why isn't everyone doing it if the costs to the tester are so low?" It has heavy social costs. Or another way to put it: it may be that the intrinsic costs are pretty low, possibly nonexistent, but it's the fact that it's illegal that...

No. The "-logy" suffix is from the greek root "logos" = "word/thought". So, you generally describe the study of something by taking the greek root of that something (not the English word!), and adding the "logy" suffix. E.g. biology = the study of life ("bios=life"+"logos=word/thought"). Note...

There's a PC in my group who is a trained Psion - with Science (Psionicology) 1, if it matters. (I can't resist opening a parenthesis. Psionicology?!? That's about as bad as "travelphobia"! Actually worse, because it means something: "the science of the mind/soul and of fingernails"... would...

One thing that might be interesting is that Mongoose authors themselves (Gareth Hanrahan, in particular) seem to assume that the number of skills produced by standard character creation is vastly insufficient, particularly for relatively young characters. At a glance, I would say that at least...