Recent content by paltrysum

Goodness gracious! We're doomed! ☠️ Your post disheartens me, but I've got two sons, one of whom just completed a doctorate in linguistics and another who is halfway through his doctorate in bioinformatics, neither of whom has used a ChatBot to write a paper. Hopefully most students refrain...

The worst part about it is that over time, after it has put artists and writers out of work by basically stealing their content and refurbishing it for the unwitting masses, it will eventually just be copying from other copiers! That's right. Eventually the AI slop will get even worse, as it...

As one of the designers on HG2022, and the architect of most of the capital ships, I can tell you that it was a frustrating exercise in some ways. As you become more familiar with the rules, you can see all the improvements you could make, but if you make them, at some point a Tigress is no...

Welcome to the club! We're happy to have you. :D

For inspiration, there are a few great sci-fi novels on uplifted octopuses: Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin, and Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea. Children of Ruin is the second part of a trilogy. It's third part, Children of Memory, features uplifted corvids.

Cassie is focused on Act 3 right now, but Anther is next up.

Precisely!

Technically, the Moot is supreme in the Imperium, but its power is extremely limited. In practice, its deliberations are advisory to the emperor, and he is wise to heed them. The Moot has only one power: to dissolve the Imperium. When this power is brought to bear, it compels compromise between...

I believe this is more along the lines of what we have in mind. But the invasion narrative is interesting!

The Julians would probably even get involved at some point. After all, they're G'naak, too, and with no Imperial buffer zone... ☠️

Their "leather" is made of hemp. :D A major exploration of the K'kree would be a lot of fun. Of course, so would one of the Vargr and Hivers, akin to what Randy Dorman has done with the Aslan.

Anther is up next.

lol "theatre kid approach". Great feedback. :LOL: (y) We probably won't muck with it. Just exploring options. Initiative works fine in Traveller and probably does not need an adjustment. I agree that it's not a problem at the table. It's before that when it might be a problem: when people are...

No danger of that. Despite the various controversies about it, I'm a big SOC fan. I call for it all the time in my games, to the chagrin of those players who made it their dump stat. :devilish:

A few off-the-cuff ideas: Task Difficulty: It adds color, which is fun, but could we nix it and just make 8+ the target for everything with negative DMs to reflect added difficulty. Just shotgunning that out there without thinking of the implications. Slots instead of kg for gear. You can carry...