Recent content by phild

Maybe I'm just being dense, but a lot of what you've described is already in the game IMHO. It's EDU. That represents an amalgam of ability to learn and retain data, and the information you've already learned and retained. An extremely good proxy for general knowledge. I also agree with the...

One group of people who'll be pursuing this technology very hard will be investment bankers. When the rest of the galaxy is basing stock market investments on jump-speed information, any individual with access to faster communications is going to be able to pre-empt the rest of the market, and...

I happen to agree :) I also agree, although for a different reason. I'm inclined to think that it's more life experience and developing personality and rigidity of thinking that inhibits one's psionic potential, not simply the physical aging of the brain. I'm leaning towards charging for the...

Cheers Rust, it's good to know that you have an opinion, even if it is that you don't have an opinion on this one :D

This sort of publication, if done well, can be a really good read. For example, Green Ronin's Mastermind's Manual for the superhero game Mutants & Masterminds is an excellent collection of GM hints, tips and clarifications, including a vast number of optional rules that can help you to define a...

Ah well, guess no-one knows.... :)

This is why my favourite game is "Let's Pretend". Damn players can't consult a rulebook to overrule me for THAT one, can they? :twisted:

And then there's debt. Characters rolling the Unusual Event can choose to be tested. I take this as meaning that if they do, they accumulated the 5KCr fee as a debt. However, if they opt for a Psion career is it then assumed that they have paid the 100KCr for training, or is this handwaved...

Another quickie - do terms taking anagathics count against Psionic Strength? I.e. is it the physical aging of the brain or the patterning of the mind through experience that limits the ability to accept psionics? And why is it there are SO many things like this in the TRB that require...

Quick question - and it's a clear "IYO" - should a player with a psi-enabled character be able to take advantage of that fact in chargen? In particular, could someone with Awareness use the Enhanced Awareness / Strength / Endurance abilities to aid them in a roll related to an Event. It's a bit...

Then it was a severe accident in your childhood, beyond even the power of TL14 to fully heal, caused by interdimensional forces and psionic beasties beyond the ken of mere mortal man! ;)

I think you're better off reverse engineering it - your Strength 2 character wouldn't have survived into adulthood if it hadn't been for the exceptional medical care available on a TL14 world to minimise the impact of severe premature birth and a genetic muscular distrophy.

This makes no sense to me. Within the current law level system, it's still entirely possible for what you describe to be the case. If I'm designing a world with which my players will interact, I'm not giving it only the UWP characteristics. That's just a guide, a starting point. A three-way law...

I don't know, I still think you can boil it down to 3 main law levels: 1. What weapons can be carried and what's the level of police interference can we expect 2. Is there enough of a legal framework to facilitate trade? 3. What sort of items can we bring to trade? It's nice to have the detail...

I think the lack of detail on the law level scale means it can be whatever you want. It could be an entirely peaceful anarcho-syndicalist commune. it could be a lawless wildwest frontier. It could be an active warzone. Does anyone have a more granual law level system? I remember seeing people...