Recent content by rinku

PayPal works. At least it does on the UK store from Australia. I assume it works on the US one, assuming it accepts PayPal.

Also... I just took a minute and re-read the OP. It seems a bit incomplete regarding unit cost to manufacture, retail price and shipping cost. You list retail and shipping cost, but don't mention cost of manufacture. Shipping is an add on cost regardless. It's important, but the most important...

Good points, AM, especially about Stranger Things. I'd probably discount BG3 a bit - that's not part of the resurgence, but later consolidation. By 2023 D&D was back, and well entrenched. I dunno. As far as I can see, Mongoose is doing all the right things. Maybe they could sponsor webcasts and...

Kinunir and Twilight's Peak are dungeon crawls too. So that's the first threee numbered Adventures and the first Double Adventure (which includes the original JTAS 1 one, Annic Nova) Essentially, deckplans were heavily influenced by the dungeon mapping standards established a few years earlier.

There's no point in selling cheap hand computers as comms to a planet without a communications infrastructure (let's say TL6 or less). Nor is a planet with a tiny population going to be worth freighting large numbers of these to. If a world has a population of 100,000, you cover every person for...

This thread has covered a lot of ground now, but the demographic point is important. In the 2000's, tabletop RPGs fell off a cliff. Aside from D&D, which endures as ever. But it's worth noting that Traveller was a non-starter in that era, pretty much. GDW was long dead, SJG carried the flame...

Yeah, that's all well and good in a vacuum, but in a pressurised environment, you have a medium you can push away from you to impart motion, correct spins and tumbles, and that has friction. Swimming. It's the same principle as swimming underwater with neutral bouyancy.

If there was an active grav field doing it, it's unlikely a person could generate enough thrust to break free from it.

Nice work. You didn't even need to moon that planet ;)

2nd Dynasty have added interim decks to the Hyperion sphere, with very Pioneer suitable external tanks: As usual for them, there's a small scale version as well. Worth keeping an eye on in general this month. They do an annual week or so of specials around 22nd of February, including one of...

I dunno. As discussed above, it's probably not THAT hard to get moving in an air-filled room in freefall. And as soon as the ship makes any kind of maneuver, even slight attitude jet corrections, the wall will start moving towards the floater. Air conditioning (VITAL in a freefall environment to...

It all sounds like good fodder for a Journal article. Has anyone written one?

You could have any variety of moon orbit, either avoiding eclipses altogether or spending more or less time in shadow. But given that: 1) the moon would be orbiting outside the Roche limit (or it would have broken up) 2) closer in moons orbit faster so will spend less time in shadow 3) a...

Yeah, as a strategy for a particular campaign it requires the characters to be in synch. You could add new ones mid-campaign, but they'd be younger than the original group. It does probably work best if the group are either serving together or are remaining in the same subsector, but depending...

Getting back to traps... you can have a lot of fun with holograms.