Recent content by pasuuli

I'm sure leasing is doable, but what I typically see is chartering a ship for a period of time. This may include in effect a kind of lease, but it also includes options such as a supplied crew or even equipment. The Mercenary Ticket can at times look like this in a certain way: players are...

Not as such, but close. Traveller has rules for blending two alien races. That's not far removed from blending a generated animal and an alien, or simply geneering an animal into a sapient race. And that's also not far from devolving a race to animal status... Similarly, Traveller has...

Surely, standard cargo containers were figured out for Traveller, at least by the DGP period in the 80s. And you can bet that any 100,000 ton cargoliner is going to be a LASH setup... As far as small starships go: the setting suggests a variety of starport docking schemes, for the sake of...

I really like this as a setting opening. It provides a rationale for the ship to exist; generates a patron by default; assumes a larger organization, which results in the usual politicking, squabbling, murder, smuggling, embezzlement, and other assortments of crime; allows for a cast of NPC...

Perhaps a luxury passenger doesn't like the idea of riding in anything resembling a coffin? They could just buy high passage, and have a steward inject them with Fast Drug for the week in passage. But of course then they couldn't do any valuable Networking and Socializing -- you know, the...

As soon as you mentioned dinosaurs on Venus, I thought of Space:1889, which of course had a dying Mars.

I get it. That's reasonable. I'd be tempted to check for snake eyes on the 3D roll, but that might skew sizes too much. I roll size as usual, and if the size is 10, I reroll as 9 + 1D.

A passenger stateroom aboard our Enkidu-class Liners are typically 8' tall with about 128 square feet in floorplan. About two tons. Some staterooms are "odd-lot" sizes or have interesting wall-join angles, and some have portholes. Crew staterooms range from two tons for officers, to one ton...

I get some big mainworlds, not very often, and they don't go to G. For example, http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/survey/t5-prog/t5sysgen.pl?sectorkey=mw-orion-3942&tlCap=21&civ=Civilized&density=Standard&Generate=Submit+Query Yields this one on 2128: 2128 Thebelox BFEA675-9 Ni Ho...

Back in the day, I hand-generated two subsectors. I still have those subsectors, and still want to add them into some sector, far away from the Imperium. Nowadays, I generate new sectors using my online Perl script (http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/survey/t5-prog/t5sysgen.pl), then I copy...

How about a series of decks as shells in your 300kt sphere? Assuming the outer radius is 100 meters... (4/3 pi r cubed = 4,175,467 cubic meters = appx 300 kt) Assuming half of the volume is dedicated to machinery and fuel... And assuming each shell is 3 meters tall, then we have decks until...

I think he wants "just" errata. Where the use-problem ("this doesn't work as intended in the rules") and the solution ("but it obviously meshes quite nicely with the rules/intent when used like XYZ") are both commonly understood. (Is that a close enough approximation?) House rules on things...

I think the "primitive and advanced drives" rules in Mongoose High Guard do something like that. As an "expansion rule" it's a nice trade-off: you get the relative simplicity of the essential rules, and then the additional tweaks separate, if you want to play around with it.

me: "looks like jon's Imperial Quality E-Quill Pen can activate a number of controls, including switches 10 thru 23, powercell connection C, and the Spark Gap generator for comms." val: "ooh! I need that pen for the powercell connector!" fred: "no you don't, that's mine for the Oscillating...

I hear you, Mr. IJ. Loud and clear. My Error. I've identified the error in my maths: the progression is per 200 tons, but I think my formula assume 100 tons. I will not try to fix the formula at the moment, because the whole thing didn't satisfy me. Jim's Function. I've felt that that sort...