Recent content by NOLATrav

Amazing. This going to be such a fantastic resource for my next campaign. Thank you!

I feel like people in this discussion are missing the forest for the trees. Augments, mods, high TL equipment and all the rest don’t exist to create auto-successes. They exist so the PCs can do the occasional Impossible Thing. That’s why there’s a scale of target numbers up to Impossible. If...

Back when I was I involved in a couple of 5e games about 10 years ago, a Cyberpunk2020 game came together and I jumped in that and then ironically someone released a very good looking and high productions standards game of “Cyberpunk” for 5e. I picked up the pdf and gave it a go and… It sucked...

The Frozen Watch was a thing in the CT days and probably should make a comeback. The (highly trained) crew of a free trader should be able to run a 50 kiloton starship in the 57th century, one crew member for each task the ship requires. Triple that number for 24 hr coverage on military ships...

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.