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    rinku replied to the thread Skills in RPGs.
    Nothing's stopping you, man. Rule Zero.
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    rinku reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Skills in RPGs with Like Like.
    The limit actually something insanely high like 3(Int+EDU) in Mongoose. I've never had it be relevant. You would have to be pretty...
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    rinku replied to the thread Psionic Career and Basic Training.
    There's not really that much pre-1977 science fiction without some form of Psi. John W Campbell is responsible for a lot that, although...
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    Uh, maybe I wasn't clear. That's exactly what I meant by a "cold ship". Maybe a derelict. You're right that thermal can likely detect...
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    rinku replied to the thread Skills in RPGs.
    Mostly what I was suggesting was just using skill table cascades for existing skills. That's a separate thing to how many skill points...
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    Ultimately the problem with "thermal automatically detects every object in the system" is that you have trillions of faint signals and...
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    rinku replied to the thread Skills in RPGs.
    If people are looking at their own skill suite, especially in terms of expanding skills available, you could do worse than import the...
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    rinku replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    One. One cannister, doing 1DD damage to boarders, per the description. Of course, any that are boarding on the other side of the ship to...
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    rinku replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    A fully autonomous missile could be deployed that way. Including ones with attack criteria to minimise friendly fire. I agree that a...
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    rinku replied to the thread Miniatures.
    I continue to lobby TitanCraft for integrated 3 finger hands
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    rinku replied to the thread Merchant ship bridges.
    Eh. TLDR is that standard designs have standard bridges. If you have a design where worse command and control isn't a big deal...
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    rinku replied to the thread Miniatures.
    Well... mucking around to get three fingers first. Moving a finger into the dewclaw spot may be the way to go, but it REALLY screws up...
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    rinku replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Economically, that missile launcher is expensive to run and is taking up the spot of a laser or sandcaster when it comes to defensive...
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    rinku reacted to tytalan's post in the thread Merchants weapons with Like Like.
    I found this in specialist forces today “ Paramilitary vessels and civilian ships carrying heavy weaponry or contingents of ground...
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    rinku replied to the thread Psionic Career and Basic Training.
    Almost every major science fiction franchise has some version of "magic-wielding space wizards". Often it's limited to "alien powers"...
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