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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.I just take it as a task that may take a more variable amount of time than usual. Essentially the series of failed rolls are just adding...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.Mongoose doesn't seem to explicitly mention many situations where lack of actual skill prevents even an attempt at a task, but it was a...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries."Astrographer? No, silly... I'm an Astrologer! You must have misread my resume. Now, where are my star charts...?"
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.For a M-Drive ferry to be justified it would need to get the ship to port significantly faster than the ship could manage on its own...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.An average ship is Jump-1 or Jump-2. Those will employ the average Astrogators that can't get jobs on the J-3 and J-4 ships, which will...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Traveller Integrated Timeline.Correct. It's all fictional. Choose your own adventure. Look, while most of the setting background material is presented as historical...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.As far as jump fields go, I get the impression the interface is seriously turbulent. Just being in the zone without being very securely...
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A breakaway hull containing the J-Drive and relying on fuel from the "host" vessel. It carries its own fuel to jump independently at... -
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I call them J-Net and M-Net to distinguish between the types (and it is shorter).
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.Three time levels would be the 1Dx10 Hours bracket. What could possibly go wrong? :ROFLMAO: Although... They ARE using a...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.Yeah, in my examples I basically assumed skill 2 and an edu bonus of +1 is usual. But a bit of bad luck and you may never manage that...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.I agree with the points Swordtart raises, but extra time and computer aided assistance still doesn't quite bring the longest jumps into...
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RThere will usually be plenty of time to take extra time on the astrogation check since it can be done on the way to the jump point and...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Crew Salaries.To be honest the default rules do do a fairly good job of making J-1 to 2 trivial, J-3 and J-4 needing expertise and J-5 and J-6 needing...
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RI like the Companion rules (I have the 2016 version) for the Astrogator and Engineer rolls which allow not just for misjumps but bad...