Recent content by Saladman

Artists, what can you do? Or, a more forgiving and possibly better GM than me. I guess in the whole history of the Third Imperium there could be one. And there'd probably be some in-universe reason that made sense to everyone involved at the time. So I guess I might leave it up to the dice if...

My answer for my own game would be set Soc to 2 when needed for survival/advancement. And that an outcast droyne just wouldn't and shouldn't seek out and expect an Imperium noble career or commission as an officer anyway; scout, drifter, or worker seem more likely. I don't particularly expect...

As pictured, apparently flamethrowers have recoil. That's not too surprising on reflection, but I hadn't considered it.

This is about what I do also.

It is a mystery, isn't it? Possibly I'm missing something from a book I don't have, and will be educated also. There was one in 1e core. I still use it with only minimal conversion (2e hits = 1e's Str + End, dropping Dex, armor a judgement call but often rounding up), but it does have a couple...

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Change of topic: how was gyrostabilization ever supposed to work on a gun? And what does it look like? I understand how it works on boats, but the boat is floating free, not being held. I understand how it works on cameras, but the whole point there is you don't get to hold the camera directly...

I'm leaning towards just dumb. "Holdout shotgun" sounds like it has a niche use case, but the combination of high recoil and low ammo capacity make it pretty weak. You'd be better off with a heavier caliber handgun for the holdout use, or better off with a short carbine or even a pistol with a...

"Aging" can cover lingering work-related injuries, lingering effects from treated mishap injuries (it was always odd to me you could buy those off completely), minor radiation damage, losing the strength or wind you had in your twenties. They don't have to be literal geriatric decrepitude...

In 2e, I'm still using the two page spread of sample NPCs from the 1e core book. It's unfortunate that was dropped in later editions (though the thinking might have been it was covered by 1001 Characters, so didn't need repeated in core). More recently I realized I could use the background and...

I have 1001 Characters and like it well enough, but in practice I've always used, am still using in 2e, the two page spread from 1e core. Much handier at the table, and covers most of what I need. We need more smileys. I'd like to give your post a horse or skull or tombstone or something, but no.

On reading my post, it's still harsher than I intended. What I could wish for was more discussion in the rules of dials and settings, rather than immediate changes to the rules. Somewhat similar to what Savage Worlds does, with its assumption that every campaign will adjust for setting and...

There's this whole category of stuff I think is reasonable and good as house/campaign/setting rules but needs to be kept far away from the core rule book. I've been thinking that for a while, and haven't wanted to single any one person out... so now I'm stuck seeming to call one person out, but...

Long shot: a pod of Threep. You'd then get their full functionality, rather than the inherently outlier status of a single isolated threep. "More agile than they look" if they ever have to go active, but I'm picturing them mainly as office/support, maybe analysts with a different outlook. Threep...

I was wondering if maybe the system resulted from capture rather than coalescence, but the article doesn't mention that either way. I did find the following bit interesting, as I didn't know it: That's something I haven't been placing when rolling subsectors.