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And a M-Drive factor 1 generates 1.21 gigawatts if the winds are 88mph…

Large passenger airliners today can fly their routes without human intervention. Or so I’m told. Ship’s computer can handle floating in winds in the 57th century - if you want it to.

Thank you for the link to Gareth’s site 👍🏼

My highly simplified example was intended to include ALL life support, not just food. Just spitballing and trying to have some fun as a game nerd.

Assuming most ships have basically all areas accessible in a shirtsleeve environment, Life Support should be based on ship tonnage, crew required and expected times away from port. Double that if you include food&beverage in LS. A 200 ton Free Trader working the Jump 1 mains with a crew of four...

Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy is a terrific read and sadly little known.

This is a great idea for a free trader campaign- yoinked!

Love me some ProjectRho. Traveller ships don’t use heat sinks and IIRC none of the stealth options discuss venting or redirecting heat signatures. So IMTU I use Power Plant output as +DM for detection and tracking. None of this “not sure if it’s a space rock or a ship” BS. Doesn’t matter if...

My free trader just misjumped but thankfully not catastrophically. We have Basic sensors. I can’t see anything reliably beyond 50,000 km. Maybe a blip, but I know nothing about it. But I can see stars that are light-years away?…. And triangulate my position?…. Yep, sensor rules definitely...

Feats or Skill Levels? Proficiency Bonus or Characteristic DMs? Unified XP costs to level up or player-chosen Terms? I think this is definitely going to be 5e D&D in Third Imperium spaaaace….

Yeah, and I would say the PC’s Initiative score resets to that new position in the cadence. I know dynamic Initiative is not a thing in Mongoose but we use it all the time and it makes combat a lot more interesting IMO.

To the OP, a Dodge reaction could work, putting that PC in the line of fire but giving their DEX DM as negative modifier on the attacker’s to hit roll against the target (and probably the PC as well). The PC could also Dive for Cover, tackling or obscuring the intended target, which is a flat...

This is very easy to do. Every career Event, connection, etc, is given a place on the map, a relevant company, person, etc. Whether it’s Travellermap, or a home brew setting. Granted, a line in the rules suggesting such would be a great add.

Ok so I don’t really get the tonnage breakpoints either and quite frankly I don’t like the kludge of certain high tonnages being immune to Crits, getting addl Hull, etc. IMTU I am using these breakpoints: 100 - 1,000 tons: Operator Class. These ships are workable with small crews and...

It had to have been early-mid Classic Traveller. I remember reading somewhere that a stretched out cotton ball could be used on the table to represent the sand and yeah, same initial vector as the launching ship. IIRC, same time period that pieces of string were suggested as an aid to vector...