Recent content by Rikki Tikki Traveller

I will admit that I have not and probably won't buy any of the detailed military books. I WILL buy the adventure books and things that move the war along to its inevitable conclusion of an Imperial victory over those mindfrakking Zhodani cowards. :)

Since you got to upgrade your ultralight fighters, can I upgrade the destroyer into something actually designed to take out fighters? You have to admit, most of the book designs are NOT optimized for the firepower in the roles they are supposed to fill.

I don't disagree, but is this written somewhere. I would think with entire systems dedicated to the Navy (The Depots), they would have construction capacity too. Currently the US navy has dedicated shipyards for its ships. They might be operated and staffed by civilians, but they are "owned" by...

Also, that capacity would be civilian capacity. Military shipyards would not be part of what the starport accounts for. Naval Bases would basically have their own construction yards.

It should apply to the Biocomplexity rating roll. Once you have that adjusted value, then normal rules would apply - basically it makes life much less complex, but Primitive life is primitive life.

I wish the Psionics in MGT had kept the Special category where wild and crazy psionic abilities reside. This is where things like precognition etc. would reside. I believe the roll was 12+, so equivalent of a -4 DM, so you better try for it first. Statistically, in a polity as big as the...

Very Nice. A good ship to give the players during the 5FW. :)

The nice thing is the rules say you get an airlock per 100 tons of ship. Most ships have no more than a couple airlocks, so you could use those free ones beside your docking clamps to make it work at no cost. Need more airlocks, just buy them - much cheaper than EVA.

I used the MGT1 Merchant rules to create a PC corporation for their starship. It worked OK, there were some holes, but by pitting them against another similarly sized group I could use the merchant rules to generate adventure ideas.

It is quite complicated. The original version of system builder used the Titus-Bode law, which defined orbits to specific radius: So Orbit 1 is 0.4 AU (Mercury), Orbit 2 is 0.7 AU (Venus) etc. T-B is NOT a "law" it was a formula someone worked out to account for the known orbital positions of...

Classic Traveller: Trillion Credit Squadron has a big part of the book devoted to how much money each world can generate for a naval fleet. Exactly how the fleets/squadrons are organized is really up to you. They should be very different though. Perhaps base the Sword Worlds on old Terran/Eather...

MGT1 Book 6: Scoundrels has a chapter on Intrusion and Hacking. It is based largely on the feel from Shadowrun etc. so that might be helpful.

Follow-up to that issue. What is Mongoose's position on the possible revocation of the original OGL document that other OGLs are based on? Would current Mongoose OGL's be at risk (such as the Traveller OGL or the Legend OGL)?

This is great! Thanks Matt and the Mongoose Team! :) Merry Christmas and a Happy (and Profitable) New Year! :)

I like to let the players roll the dice First, then pick which skill table to select their skill from. This makes it semi-random, but gives them control too. For characteristics, I have always used "roll first, then assign" so they get the type of character they want, but still random-ish.