Recent content by ProfGrizzlyJon

There are some interesting developments in the World Builder’s Handbook

Since this has popped up again. I really do not like the proposed AP rules. If it helps, I still use the MgT 1E rule that allows lasers to Blind a target with a high enough effect (Modified: Effect 6+ for visible light, 4+ for blue/green lasers, and 2+ for "invisilasers" using UV/Gamma rays)...

I don't agree that all starports are lawless. IMTU, every starport is different. That is the whole point- you need to be able to buy a product cheap in one spot, and then sell it for an inflated price somewhere else. The economy. I will buy your legal guns at CR1000/dton and sell them for...

I completely agree. My point wasn't to show off, but to expand the aperture for what might actually be the case. I have always been amazed at what people are willing to smuggle, not because they do it, but because it is profitable enough to be financially viable. I use fabricators a lot IMTU...

Thanks- I try. I just wanted to go home, at that point. Should have dumped my clothes at my apartment (I was a geographic bachelor in Germany at the time), but was worried about missing my flight out of Nurnberg, so I just took the same bags to the airport instead. The look on the other...

TLDR: I spent some time chasing smugglers, and then spent some time pretending to be a smuggler as a training aid for teaching people to catch smugglers. The means of production is VERY much the issue. Part of what I always enjoyed about Traveller is how it can be inspired from almost every...

Same problem as jump drives; plasma drives have the chance for reduced size and reduced fuel as they progress. .5G still gets you between the Earth and the Moon in 5 hrs (with accel-flip-decel)

Not a valid representation for sustained use. <21 hours total acceleration/deceleration is where they balance out. Plasma becomes more efficient afterwards. By comparison, with fuel for only 20 hours of 1G thrust, split into 10 hours of acceleration and 10 hours of deceleration, you can travel...

You should be able to refine the detonators from liquid hydrogen fuel.

That was the way that I read it. The intent was to use .1G, based on the rest of the context about primitive spacecraft in that Supplement.

Not sure I understand how this doesn't conflict with this: Spinward Extents has rules for a Plasma Drive: Plasma Drives: A magneto plasma drive uses radio waves to ionise fuel and magnetics to contain and expel the plasma under high impulse. More fuel efficient than standard reaction drives...

I have found three good options: Orion Drive (T5) Lightcraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightcraft) Nuclear Thruster, aka HePLAR (T5)

Also, fabricators have hardwired limits on what they can print. CSC and the Robot Handbook “Most commercially sourced fabrication chambers are specifically blocked from creating weapons, currency, copywritten materials or controlled substances, however the specific restrictions vary by...

Fabricators aren’t replicators. A TL-13 fabricator can create cloned meat, but it won’t have the same taste as a Sylean Wagyu, raised in low-G for extra tenderness and airy volume. Holy artifacts and scriptures lose value if they are created by a soulless machine. IMTU, customs searches often...

Yes! Smuggling is still alive and well. Half the challenge is avoiding customs, the other half is delivering the goods without getting caught/betrayed/lost