Recent content by Sigtrygg

It is a luxury liner catering for the filthy rich, they pay the freight costs to import the refined fuel as cargo via a small shipping company to any less than B port... at least that's what the Captain says if asked about it. Investigation will prove this to be a fiction which furthers the...

They went down a rabbit hole with the latest version which has alienated an awful lot of people, me certainly. I will ignore "the message" if there is other stuff that is worth it, but I see no reason to get this 5.5 edition, and if they continue with pushing "the message" with 6th edition I...

It was popular enough to get several print runs. Going by CotI anecdotes and forum activity there were as many active players of T20 back in the day as there are MgT players now. It failed because Hunter Gordon was ill then died, and MWM pulled the plug on the licence and gave it to Mongoose.

The history of the terms ship of the line and rating system are well worth studying.

There are now over 1.400 signed up following the pre-launch, that is higher than the most successful Mongoose Traveller kickstarter to date - unless there was a campaign I was not part of and didn't back. With 28 days to go I think there is a high chance of this campaign getting almost doubel...

The term dreadnought as a catch all term for bestest battleship didn't last very long in naval parlance, it remained a media term for a bit longer and pulp sci fi authors loved the term. Sci Fi TTRPG authors appear to be heavily influenced by the pulp sci fi novels. As to resurrecting the line...

I think the penny has finally dropped as to what you are saying, upon running the numbers I have to conceed that 3d keep 2 and 2d then reroll one is mathmatically the same. There are still issues with how you presented it which is what lead to my confusion, but that is likely down to my...

Ok but it will be long and read like a maths lesson No sleight is intended but you don't understand probability if you thing roll 3d drop a die and roll 2d then re roll a die are the same. They are different mechanics with different probabilities. No, when you roll 3d you have 216 "outcomes"...

Mea culpa, yes 11. I should learn to count the results in the tables I produced. What you are describing are not pobabilites. There is a completely different probabilty outcome between rolling 3 dice and choosing two and rolling 2 dice and re-rolling one of them. They are completely different...

They also more than trivialise standard and difficult tasks) This leads to difficulty creep where suddenly the routine task of skimming from a gas giant requiring no dice roll at all becomes a standard task due to wanting to make things fun... players are only having fun if they are rolling...

This is similar to how MT handled rolling higher than the target number, but in MT it was for every multiple of 2 above the target number. Playing this for a bit showed this to be too low a threshold, again due to the effect of having bonus DMs (although not as high as MgT bonus DM stacking)...

It's not the referee allowing it, it is the game rules allowing in. If the referee bans it under rule zero you are not playing bu the rules as written.

This is simply incorrect Result23456789101112 No. of possible ways12345654321 There are 36 outcomes It is the number of possible ways to roll the final number that gives the probability of rolling that result Result23456789101112...

No, a roll of 2d6 has 12 outcomes, a roll of "d66" has 36 outcomes, each with a flat percentage of ~3% Not the same thing at all, stop for a moment and think about what you are saying. An 8+ target number has a 42% chance of success with no modifiers, if you want to consider it as two...

The 2d6 system breaks down when you have a bonus of +6 before adding characteristic and skill for a standard target number of 8+