Recent content by Red Bart

I got that impression too. But it could also have been something that came up during roleplaying that required an additional rule (i.e. giving the players a bonus because they took more risk). What that risk would be, I dont know. Probably better to discard the whole rule.

I'm referring here to the chapter Risk versus Reward Modifier on page 85 in the Merchant Prince book. I get how the mechanics of it works (i.e. a higher chance of a transit hazard makes for a higher reward), but I don't see at all how this fits in the story. The example in the book talks about...

Thanks for all the answers! The Foreven sector looks like it might work. The only thing that is "wrong" with it is that it doesn't have any imperial presence. But I can massage that away by stating that an imperial expedition fleet has conquered subsectors G and H a couple of centuries ago...

1 - 6 days is the duration if you take enough time to finish the task adequately. According to RAW (Core Rules page 50): "You can choose, before you roll, to move up or down one or two rows on the Time Frames table. Moving up (reducing the time increment) gives you a...

I've drawn up two subsector maps from scratch and filled them with random worlds (all fully fleshed out). Actually I started out with one subsector, but it got so crowded that I rearranged the worlds and spread them over two subsectors. Some details of my subsectors (lets call them alpha and...

In one of the Firefly episodes (since Firefly is a very Traveller like series) Kaylee is the one who convinces Shepherd Book to become a passenger on their ship. This only works because they have a connection, they like each other. I figure that the carouse skill is exactly what this would...

But is this in addition to the space of the ordnance? Does the bay + ordnance in your example take 10 spaces or 20? So if I want to drop 5 space bombs, I need to include a 10 space bay, otherwise the bomb doesn't fit? If the generic bay is just an indication of what size ordnance it can hold...

So if the maximum speed (i.e. the speed in a race) is about 7 knots, or 13kmphr, than (following the rules of the book) the cruising speed would be almost 10kmphr. Sounds about right to me. 0.25 tons per space also sounds right. I initially thought this was the case, but after checking the...

Wikipedia says it's the average speed for the viking longship, so the trireme would probably also be an average. I would have rather liked the book to give me a value though :)

I've been enjoying supplement 5-6 lately, which I think is a great book for making all sorts of vehicles. However it does suffer from what appears to be Mongoose's hallmark sloppiness. I tried googling some of the questions I had, but I couldn't really find satisfying answers for them so maybe...

That's true. And of course I wouldn't be in this forum if they hadn't given me a free Judge Dredd RPG pdf. I guess I'm just disappointed that it stops there. If something like a master skill list can't even be published to benefit the users of the system, even though they themselves show no sign...

I tend to disagree with the decision. When you are on the low end of a market segment (as I assume Traveller is) it makes more sense to "get the word out". Let people run wild with your product and more people will flock to it. I got into Traveller because I took part in the Judge Dredd...

I just got a reply from Matthew Sprange at Mongoose Publishing, telling me the following: So unfortunately I can't make the pdf public. Back to making your own I guess :)

I hadn't really thought about the legal repercussions, and I had no idea that scribd was normally used for the illegal stuff. I'll remove the file for now and will e-mail mongoose to ask if they are ok with it. If they are, I'll upload it again (on a site that doesn't require you to sign in).

I don't really know if this has already been done, but I made a master skill list, compiling all skills from the Core Rulebook and all nine rule supplement books (if they had any additional skills). Here is the link to the pdf if you are interested: Traveller Master Skill List