Recent content by silburnl

Typo watch, it's exercise not exercice. Also where do the 16 passengers live on that scout? Are they triple bunking in the crew staterooms?

Is there any indication in the canonical rules that low berths move away from the cryogenic approach at higher TLs? Funky applications of jump tech to put people into stasis fields or similar? I know that you start getting practical teleportation in the TLs above peak-Imperial and if that is the...

Oof... that would be hard for crew fitness and efficiency on long deployments (assuming that the medical technology available isn't up to mitigating the negative effects of long term residence in microgravity of course). If I was bossing a Maidstone I'd look at rotating the Lance crews through...

Is the character from Drinax or elsewhere? If the latter then I would let them keep it - having a second ship will be helpful but not an overwhelming advantage. If it's the former then I had the same issue and my ruling was that the floating palace had only let him have use of the ship because...

So the route is Clarke-Torpol-Borite-FuelDump-Palindrome? OK, that's probably more like a two month cruise rather than three, but the rest of my previous post holds.

My players are running through adventure 3 (Ihatei!) and they have come up with a cunning plan to distract some of the ihatei who are gathering on Kteiroa. The plan is that they place an order with GeDeCo on Vorito for delivery to Hilfer of the power plant, water-reclamation tech and piping...

I don't have the the fancy paid-for version of Drinax - only the freebie pdfs, but I guess that's the fuel dump that Krrsh knows about in 'Honour Among Thieves', right? If so, then yes it's a secret. So the route is Clarke-Torpol-Borite/Marduk-Noricum-Fuel Dump-Palindrome? That's six jumps so...

I wouldn't make it an entirety sure thing, but a simplified 2d (or perhaps 3d like for spec trade) table where the extreme results kick off events that the players can respond to, or not, and the middle results give returns that can be thrown into the pot when you meet up to divide the spoils...

Huh - I'd just assumed that the ship was rad-shielded but you're right. However having a ship that can't fire its main weapon without hospitalising half the crew is really very dumb, even for Drinax; so for my campaign I'm not going to do that. I'll say the design is clever enough that the...

In the last session of my Drinax campaign, the players ran into a small freighter who actually had some fight in him, so they got to fire the Harrier's particle barbette in anger for the first time (up to now I've ruled that a single shot across the bows was sufficient to force a surrender). I...

Per HG p47, when fitting out the engineering space for your new ship design you can take the budget option on a power plant for a 25% discount in price but you also need to take a disadvantage to justify the lower price on the kit you've installed. The disadvantages for power plants, are either...

Cool. I'm glad you like it - I'm still in the early days of my campaign and full of enthusiasm, but hopefully I'll keep it going. I've locked down the comments section so minimise the amount of drive-by spam I have to deal with but if anyone wants to comment, I'll be happy to add them to the...

Thanks for the responses everybody, my ruling on the night was that the speed of the G/Bike posed a tracking problem, but like AnotherDilbert said at #2 when I sat down the day after and worked out that the rule in the combat section came to a -30 modifier this seemed ridiculously hard. In the...

This situation came up in my game last night and I'm not sure if I ruled correctly. Player character is in a position that is being scouted out by enemies riding on G/Bikes. It appears that the PC and his companions have been made by one of the G/Bikers and as his buddy sweeps around to take a...

Seeing that blog (hi Kulthea, I'm part of that spike) reminded me that I'd been meaning to start one of my own, so I did: https://whosoncomms.blogspot.com/ I've also picked up the Harrier supplement as an eBook and, apart from concluding that I will need to get High Guard as well to properly...