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    rinku reacted to Fluffy Bunny Feet's post in the thread Merchants weapons with Like Like.
    Not quite accurate. You want enough to cause enough damage that the pirate will take a financial loss. You want them to do the cost...
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    rinku replied to the thread Space Combat - Did I miss something?.
    As a small point, boons and banes are not DMs. That's the entire point of those rules - they cannot add to the DM stack. A boon just...
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    rinku reacted to shirgall's post in the thread Space Combat - Did I miss something? with Like Like.
    As a referee I try to rein in the piling up of DMs. First if they have an overwhelming advantage, we won't roll at all. If there's no...
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    rinku replied to the thread Traveller 5E.
    I think T5 was Marc's Thesis and statement of his own vision of Traveller. But he's far too much of a gentleman to impose it as holy...
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    rinku replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.
    It may be worth remembering that you don't actually need a robot brain or any extra gear to automate fire control, just ship's computer...
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    rinku replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    There's a fair case for spinal mount ships having auxiliary M-Drives mounted to thrust laterally, so they can still point towards the...
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    rinku replied to the thread Space Combat - Did I miss something?.
    Does that break physics somehow?
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    rinku replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    I disagree regarding nuclear missiles, at least in the 3I. Nukes ARE illegal there, and the warheads should be fairly easy to detect...
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    rinku replied to the thread Fatigue at other skills.
    Or you could run Traveller Hero and make use of that system's involved endurance and stun rules...
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    rinku reacted to WHULorigan's post in the thread Imperial Battleships with Like Like.
    You could keep names broadly associated with mission type or connotation (they change, as the term "Frigate" vanishing after becoming...
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    rinku replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Ultimately "crossing the T" is just a special case of maximising your firepower while minimising the opposition's In space, ranges are...
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    rinku replied to the thread Fatigue at other skills.
    It's going to vary by how fatiguing the activity is, but CRB p.80 has three examples: - Staying awake for a number of hours greater...
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    rinku replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    It's not so much the "fighting in a line" thing as "fighting in a group". Age of sail ships adopted line tactics because their cannon...
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    rinku reacted to ColinD's post in the thread Running Cluster Truck with Like Like.
    Thanks all! We ran the Junkboat Derby section of the book and I had lots of fun!
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    rinku reacted to lategamer's post in the thread What real use are escape pods? with Like Like.
    On a matter of scale...the Sea is famously big. Obviously mostly in 2D and nowhere near the same scale. The point being....in most cases...
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