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You can also look at modifying the figures in something like Blender, especially if you're printing smaller scales like 15mm. I haven't used it for a while, but there's feature where you effectively "bloat" the figure a little to make it thicker in all axes. That's akin to how physical...

Flip that on its head; what would you strip OUT of PHB as "referee's only"? I make it maybe "Encounters and Dangers", "Spaceship Construction" and "World and Universe Creation". But you'd need to include bits of the first and last of those to cover definitions that players would want, like the...

Indeed. That is how they are meant to work, and for almost all warships is sufficient. My thoughts above were for edge cases where you want to keep up continuous thrust (perhaps to open range) but still fire. The Vipers from BG aren't in that situation; they're mostly in a close maneuvering...

In the discussion of "adventures vs other book" the core rule books themselves - the ones required to play - aren't part of it. Clearly those are almost always the top seller. But I'll take the point that it does appear adventures are not top.

Yeah, I think the key point is that you DO need to add space for where you work, where the kids go to school, to transport you to and from those, plus somewhere for you to shop, maybe restaurants and entertainment, administration... it all adds up.

Re historical warship size... it varied a bit. Destroyers and torpedo boats were used, probably more than cruisers and larger. Raiders could be bigger or smaller than their prey, probably leaning towards smaller. (And don't forget that armed merchants were used offensively. Germany used them to...

That is a very salient point. Easily dealt with using maths and common sense, but the point is taken. As far as mixed ammo types.... eh. There's a bunch of different feed concepts that would allow the order of firing to be selectable. I don't have any real issue with the turret being loaded up...

Well, unlike a laser most of an ordnance turret is magazine, not weapon. If the missiles or cannisters are in cargo, they need extra stuff like crates to stop them rolling around the floor and so on, I guess. But if you want to increase the amount of missiles that can be stored per dTon, by...

Well, given that you can change cannisters in a few minutes, it's not totally a matter of "can't use it vs this or that". Less a binary choice made before the fight and more of a weapon change during it. Clearly the default is Sand, but if they're not shooting lasers at you and are intending to...

The modern way is to update the .pdf you get as part of the hard copy purchase. Adventures sell, not rulebooks. That's been standard of the industry all along; while it's nice that you may get some extra rules for the situations in the adventure, people are buying them for the story, the...

On top of that, starships usually don't have business districts and public facilities, like proper schools and hospitals (although they may have in-stateroom resources to get by with).

But 4D shot has the same effect on armour as a 2D laser would. It's not just the raw damage here. I do think it's in the territory of "I've run out of other options. This is technically possible and may do something if luck goes my way". So there's less need for a hard and fast rule - Referee's...

As I pointed out earlier, the precedent of personal armour being doubled vs personal scale shotgun pellets is probably enough of a justification that ship hulls can ignore sand and pebble damage. As spacefaring hulls, they ARE built to cope with micro collisions and thick enough to stop 500...

Stop it. You're giving me Starfleet Battles PTSD...

Traveller was the box and the three books inside it, same as D&D was. CRB2e22 is a direct and accurate equivalent to that. Now, if you want MARKUP, compare 1979 Book 5 with HG2e22... ;)