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Is this a reboot to an earlier Merc Cruiser project I seem to attach your name to or a ground-up new effort ?

Just my unsolicited two pence here but non-streamlined ships are a viable thing proving one covers a few issues such vessels cannot avoid. - Any-all skimming of gas giants must be done by an axillary craft, say a streamlined drone or other small craft fitted for such duties. A 50Ton Cutter...

Just my two pence worth but don't overlook having a good set of deckplans on-hand for the vary least to represent the ship your characters operate from. Having visual references available to show where onboard player characters are berthed, work and co-habitate with one another allow for better...

IMTU I've adopted the idea of defensive turrets and other 'passive' counter-measures for quite some time, that said let me break down what I mean. Laser turrets do make great anti-missile weapons but I have such 'scaled' down to operate as a CIWS-local defense measure and not having the range...

Thanks Jeff !

The best way to start this thread is to ask how many people remember the 1984 SF-Comedy film Ice Pirates ? If you've never seen it, do so immediately, if it's been a while watch it again soon. It's not too much of a stretch to place the plot-setting of Ice Pirates into a Traveller campaign...

I've always thought that one overlooked storage option in Traveller starships, staterooms in particular, has been below deck-floor stowage bins and lockers. If one views the interior of contemporary mini-vans and SUVs so equipped that one could stash-store away the general outfitting of a...

Admittedly a deck-plan junkie so here's my unsolicited two pence. For reasons of economy and simple access, I've used 1/72 scale figures as so many easily available, from the nicely detailed boxed sets by MiniArt, Zvezda and others to the bagged 'generic' army soldiers found at most 'dollar'...

Mind this is just my unsolicited opinion but here goes: I do a lot of cardboard modeling for scenery and 'props' for tabletop RPGs, with so many free paper models available online, might I suggest considering an air-raft design of your own creation ? One of the best free paper model sites is...

I can see magic perhaps 'appearing' in an alternate Traveller Universe, say a side trip by way of a misjump placing characters in such. But as a fully canon inclusion to the collected rules, I thought that concept perished with Dragonstar.

I'm old school Stone Age too, I like playing around on graph paper a bit first to rough out an idea then scanning a working drawing into my PC to tweak with a graphics program. Mind lusting after a tablet and notebook PC to 'expedite' that process a bit !

Backsliding a bit to the original thread topic, deck plans have their place if only for occasional reference. In the Traveller games I have refereed, my players did have a 'basic' deck plan available for whatever ship they crewed or took passage upon, more a how to get around map than much...

Mind just might be my personal perspective but I see combat droids-drones more as such appeared in the film. Ice Pirates rather than the myriad of non-bipedal forms seen in the Star Wars sagas. That sentiment more based on boarding actions in the confines of a starship than say mass combat...

I bought a copy of Traders & Gunboats and politely say there were many things to get upset about now to hear a revised second edition has been released addressing-correcting the first editions shortcomings.

If I may, what recourse does one have for obtaining the corrected edition if one purchased their original copy by way of a third party vendor (I.E. Amazon) ?