Recent content by SJE

One format change for the Solomani And Spinward Extents book I'd suggest (after reading Behind the Claw) and recommend - have an actual text entry describing whats interesting about the planet for each planet in the secotr. Doesnt have to be long- just a sentence or two. GURPS Behind the Claw...

I’m a little curious since I haven’t heard much chatter about it- how did the The Circle Convention go at Mongooses offices in Swindon last weekend? What was the turnout and mix of games like?

What options are available in the rules for waging successful warfare against a much higher tech level? (aka the Ewoks vs Stormtroopers problem) I'm writing a scenario in which a bunch of numerically superior monks (40) without weapons may need to overcome an occupying force of 8 pirate vargr...

So as a GM who runs convention games of Traveller (mostly at UK TravCon) one thing I found very useful for MgT 1st Ed was the point buy system to quickly put together pregen PC's without going through the whole character gen process whilst keeping the points fairly fair. Is there a 2nd Ed...

At roughly which year does Confederation governments start pulling back from the borders? Thx Steve

Did the Solomani Confederation suffer a 'Short Dusk'/ Long Night during the collapse of the 3rd Imperium? (1120-1200ish) Or did it stay as a functioning, mutually supporting government during the period the Imperium fell apart? Thx Steve

Happy to say that DriveThru were very obliging and gave me a credit refund when I explained my issue about the voucher wording.

I had assumed the voucher would be for a DriveThru POD book, or direct from the Mongoose store.

Matt- can you change the description in the DriveThru sites Beta Playtest decription to say that the $20 voucher only applies to the rulebook PDF and not any POD or other hardcopy? I thought that it did (it just says rulebook and doesnt specify PDF) , so I'm asking for a refund from DriveThru...

I ran a con game in which you could play him (and Dulinor, Iphagenia, Norris and Varian/Lucan called Eve of Rebellion. Piecing together a lot of his stuff comes from a lot of different books and periods (much of it is revealed in later time periods such as TNE or even Out of the Darness). I...

First, is there a cheat sheet with all the options listed for Space Combat? I've seen references to a Yahoo group MGT-aids, but none of the links seem to work for it any more. Secondly, reading through the rule book I've been struck by some questions- A Commander can initially modify the...

I'm thinking of a small fighter swarm might be a useful challenge - a 2 turret Fast Trader (1 turret with Beam laser and Sandcaster, second turret with Pulse laser and Sandcaster) vs. 2-3 Light fighters armed with Pulse lasers and maybe a single Basic missile each, starting at long range...

OK, planning a game, and my astrophysics is non-existent, so I thought I'd ask. The objective is a very fast moving object/Ancient Big Dumb Object that is moving across interstellar & system space at a noticable fraction of the speed of light (lets say 0.05c) . It has no jump drive, so you can...

Sorry, i was meaning by 1 turret, that they did have a weapon- a Pulse or Beam Laser perhaps in addition to the sandcaster. Thx. SJE

So, the PC crew of a Gagh class trader (or a Far Trader equivalent) with maybe 1 turret and a sandcaster need to fight off some villanous Vargr pirates in my game. What ship would be a good match for them for an exciting but balanced space battle? Thx Steve