Recent content by ottarrus

I asked this over in the general Traveller forum but upon advice I'm repeating it here. Are there any plans to update High Guard with all the equipment that's been announced in the various Traveller sourcebooks and adventures? The Great Rift, for example, introduced quite a few pieces of engine...

I'm gonna have to pass this year. WorldCon was in my area this year and my wife had college friends who made the trip out here. But the bill for all that was damned near $1000 US. However, the wife is on notice that I WILL be going to TravellerCon 50th anniversary.

Are there any plans to update High Guard with all the equipment that's been announced in the various Traveller sourcebooks and adventures? The Great Rift, for example, introduced quite a few pieces of engine and science lab equipment.

I got the 'two L's in Traveller' from a Con panel by Chuck Gannon a million years ago. Perhaps he was wrong, or memories have faded, or whatever. It still saved GDW an annoying /expensive lawsuit.

There was a 'Bits and Mortar' initiative here in the States [I don't know if it got to Europe], where you would get a discount at your FLGS if you bought a PDF and vice-versa [if you bought hardcopy at your FLGS, the publisher would give a discount on the PDF]. I haven't heard much about it...

However, I would count 'ripping out a stateroom for more fuel tankage' as a Major Refit. But that does beg the question, just exactly what it 6 tons [or 12 tons for two staterooms] of fuel going to buy you? It won't give you enough tankage for a J-1 unless you're in a 100 ton Scout.

Well, MWM had to put two 'L's' in Traveller due to the Traveler's Insurance Group's copywrite. I'm sure the same logic applies here. As for WotC being a putz about this... Well, we know of HasBorg's past, don't we? It hasn't been 'by gamers for gamers' for quite some time.

Hot bunking in freezer :D

Everybody has their best player ship ever but virtually nobody agrees on what it is. What we all do agree on is that nobody likes being stuck on a J-1 /1G meat can with Civilian sensors and only one or two turrets, one one of which is filled. Really, it depends on what the crew is doing with it...

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Did you mean 'neutralizing'? The comment makes a bit more sense that way.

If I were to guess, they're more likely to do that with the 'Pods! "Greetings madames et miseures. Tonight our chef has prepared Franque Grille' with caramelized onions and sauce au beurre et à l'ail..." [Grilled Frank with butter garlic sauce]

'You're always ready for your last war' is a problem with every military. The real problem with France's military twofold: - They simply don't have the GNP to be 'agile' to emerging threats procurement-wise; not many countries do - That sticky Gallic pride... and it isn't as if we Americans...

Well, one would expect that after the events of Grendelsaga [where they sampled a minimum of two humans] that they probably do. Which is not entirely good considering the attitudes of the Dark Gods. But one existential human die back event at a time, I suppose....

OK, where are we getting 'Lutke neutered the Kafer' from? 2320 has Lutke dropping deadfall ordinance on a Kafer colony that also had human prisoners on it, but it wasn't one of the major worlds in the GV Loop. The paradrenaline inhibitor was developed by the Outward Visions Pentapod sect and...