Recent content by Saladman

This seems like an aesthetic objection rather than a substantive one. It's a net plus you listen to player and customer feedback, but shifting the rulebook for one or only a few vocal forum dwellers isn't automatically an improvement for the rest of us. In fact the Auto Fire thread is an...

Should Full Auto attacks be subject to the cumulative -2 for taking multiple actions at once? I've never read it that way, and if it were intended it would be nice if it were spelled out, but have I been doing it wrong? Full Auto in 1e did have more penalties. But they were dropped for 2e...

Opposed Deception was a common answer the last time this came up, so you're on the right track there. Investigation (the "be a detective" skill) also works, and Streetwise situationally. Lack of any Sense Motive/Insight skill dates back to Classic, and appears to be a deliberate design choice...

Sounds like the player who rolled the ship has a need for the players who didn't. Call it a win and move on?

Not literally angry, there's just no thumbs down. Some of these posts seemed very white room, theory-crafty, and I wouldn't appreciate them hitting a core book update someday. But since you ask, let's do this. That's just bad game design. Primarily because it doesn't mesh with the scale of...

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...