Recent content by rust2

Well, the Roman scholar Varro warned in his Rerum rusticarum of "certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases". Unfortunately he was not believed.

Wholeheartedly seconded.

Well, not exactly active, because I moved away from Traveller as my preferred system a couple of years ago. However, old habits are difficult to give up, so rust/rust 2 still takes a look at the forum now and then. :)

Perhaps.

I suspect they would somewhat dislike the idea of being executed.

A ship's Library (High Guard, page 46) grants a DM+1 on any EDU check made when training for new skills, and in my mind an instructor should at least be able to do the same. I agree that the instructor should have a higher skill level than the one he teaches his student (e.g. level 2 if he...

Well, plant a couple of flowers in your leisure area and most of the problem is gone (High Guard, page 44): Biosphere This is an area depicted to flora and fauna, either for the production of food or as a leisure area. Every ton dedicated to a biosphere will eliminate the life support costs for...

According to the core rules, page 6: "TL 13 (Average Stellar): The battle dress appears on the battlefield in response to the new weapons. Cloning of body parts becomes easy. Advances in hull design and thruster plates means that spacecraft can easily go underwater. Jump 4 travel." This is...

I very much doubt that they could destroy the air raft, but they might well disable it, depending on which parts of the air raft are hit. In the worst case they might even cause the air raft to crash from enough height to destroy it and kill the driver and any passengers, but the probability for...

Project Steel was an adventure for the first edition of Mongoose Traveller. I do not know whether it will be re-published for the second edition...

As for the life support problem, there is the standard 20 dton launch which is described as a lifeboat in the core rules, although it only has life support for the cockpit crew and no life support system at all for any passengers. This seems to indicate that either the life expectancy in a...

After delving a bit deeper into These Stars Are Ours! I have now begun to design the basics of a campaign in this setting, with a focus on the colonization of a planet a couple of parsecs spinwards of the Terran realm. While working on this I came to wonder whether Stellagama intends to follow...

Downloaded and liked, congratulations to a fine setting. :)

Thank you very much - a very useful thing. :)

Or, as we were once told, while the new foolproof system may be proof against fools, the clever ones will break it. 8)