Recent content by Sevain

Yes. Either the disadvantages need to be severe enough to make you want to double your investment in drives, or the budget version cost reduction must be smaller.

The reason this is relevant is that another character's choice to hasten can influence your choice to hasten. Some kind of mechanism (or at least clarification) is needed if a rigorous combat mechanic is sought, although this can be left open to the GM's interpretation since it is a relatively...

TL comparison in ground combat is not fine. What is the TL of a human being? Because if it is 0 then the Smart trait gives a +6 bonus unless the target wears high tech armour, which in turn renders the shooter irrelevant since the bonus overwhelms all but the most extreme circumstances. In...

If we consider a realistic competent opponent, they would probably be pretty talented at what they do (+1 DM from the attribute) and either pretty good (+1 DM from skill) or really good (+2 DM from skill) at what they do. For a total of +2 or +3 DM. Unless they are an honest to god ninja or...

I admit I have not read the 140 posts in this thread, so I am sorry if what I am saying has already been said. I also apologize if this is the wrong place for this kind of post. Instead of a flat -1 DM to hit Dodge now gives a variable DM of up to -5 (although realistically probably no more...

There is a difference between Stealth and fooling the weapons lock of an incoming missile. If you toss an incredibly bright object out of your starship's rear hatch you will fool/blind an IR seeker warhead, but you won't make yourself any less conspicuous. Project Rho is a good resource, but...

Just because space itself is cold does not mean you can not fool IR. If that is what you are referring to as basic physics.

A savvy barbarian would point out that it is not raw gold that he is selling, but rather a cultural artifact with a story and artistic value.

Operating in a gas giant is difficult due to the heavy gravity. If you look at the expanded movement section of High Guard you notice that you need to expend up to 2,5 points of Thrust to keep yourself from falling into the giant. That would leave a military ship with 6 Thrust only 3 Thrust for...

When you invest 1 dton into life support you also get enough room for the person to sit down and maybe even turn around. You can probably stick all the life support into the roof and floor structure (if by no other means then by lowering the floor height), which leaves the person with a 1,5m X...

Dexterity is already a strong attribute in combat. If it lets you take more actions it might easily eclipse all other attributes.

I would see it as less chivalry and more a happy coincidence that gets romanticized after the fact. Jumping in at a distance guarantees your whole force arrives before the engagement at the cost of the element of surprise.

Consider that jumps last a random time. You probably do not want to jump in at the 100D limit because doing so risks the enemy destroying your force piece by piece as it precipitates out of jump. This suggests you would either jump into parts of the system unlikely to be patrolled and hide as...

The High Burn Thruster seems too good to be true, especially for Small Craft. If you install two units (40% of size of M-Drive) you can keep one thruster active as long as you have fuel. If you then spend the remaining 60% of M-Drive volume on fuel you get 12 hours of operation out of your drive...

How do you intend to feed the launched craft into the railgun? I think it would be difficult to cram all the infrastructure required by the spinal weapon itself, its ammunition magazine and facilities for prepping small craft for launch into the rear end of the gun. Especially because the gun...