Recent content by rje

"The ship was never really meant to be a tail sitter" Just to clarify: that quote applies to this version of the AHL, and to that degree is correct. This new version is an alternate. The original AHL was certainly intended to have a vertical orientation, and its deck plans are still valid.

I think it's easier to tell if something is "Traveller" rather than than "NOT Traveller". There are a number of telltales, but I don't know if anything is REQUIRED, except one thing: if you use a Traveller book for your game, it could be called a Traveller game.

Just a general observation that I had to put out there. I've had Mongoose Traveller for a long time now, but only recently have dug into the ship design system. I've found the basic starship design rules to be relatively painless to use. In the past, I was a "Book 2" ship designer. For those...

I've written quite a bit of free software for Traveller. A lot of it is on the web, and Marc Miller knows about it. But, not for Mongoose Traveller (so far).

101 Animal Encounters, keyed by ecological niche, with a simple mechanic for generating basic predator-prey networks. A resource for referees.

Ooooh, Paleo Wanderer. I like the way you added "Paleo" to it to reinforce its Lo-TL focus. I suppose "Paleo Traveller" or "PaleoTraveller" would work just as well. I'll have to think about that.

Any chances of using an ice-asteroid for a fuel source?

Excellent points all -- cheers Condottiere. Hmmm, I'll take an action item on those! Of course I think you're right -- 100 tons is not absolute. The limit is there to constrain writers (we all know what happens when the rules have some 'give' -- the writers 'take'!) In my games, however...

Thanks for that reminder -- I'll look that up.

THAT is TOTALLY AWESOME. Thank you, Wil!

A periodically gypsy-like culture, paraphrased from the Deneb sector book: The Lurent of Borlund (1406 Deneb) are a relatively common halo culture, jumping their planetoid homes from system-to-system during a tribe's migratory period. Lurenti planetoids have a population of 1 million to 100...

Cheers Condottiere! Got a couple extra thoughts for you. (a) Two 30-ton drop tanks, attached to a pinnace equipped with a jump drive, is sufficient to push the volume to 100 tons and allow it to jump. For a maneuver performance gain, drop the tanks upon entry into your target system. A bit...

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That is an unanswerable question that I have seen asked before. Magic?

Hi Condottiere. The following are the guidelines I use when writing Traveller material. 1. What's the diameter of the Jump Bubble? Diameter = (Hull Tons * 13.5 )^1/3 *20 (in meters) and For most purposes, a Jump Bubble is about five times the diameter of the average of Length, Width, and...