Recent content by Solomani Jim

Honestly, even for fiction, most people I game with and know buy digital anymore and the bookstores are gone or struggling. Even comic book stores are falling before the digital storm. We play with pdf and digital aids always on tap. Some times dice are used and sometimes electronic...

Exactly. It was counter intuitive since when you get a skill twice you are prone to think "Aha! Another level" and that's not always true in Traveller. If you start on page eight rolling characteristics (step one on the character creation flow chart page ten) and proceed in order you will not...

I picked up my copy yesterday and I am still working my way through the rules. I am looking at it with eyes that haven't played in several years so the first thing I did was sit down and roll up a character. Based on the order of rule presentation I encountered some confusion with how skills...

Bull.

So? NASA's real world engines seem to break the laws of physics and are supposedly impossible yet they work. And forget the fuel. http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/researchers-conduct-successful-new-tests-of-emdrive/ Maybe we now know what Traveller's drives are and they are hard science...

Having read all of the books I find it to be a great show. The acting, writing, and SFX are all top notch. I admittedly worried that it might be too heady for the average viewer leading to an early cancellation but so far so good.

We neither need nor want a Nemesis. )

Exactly. It's why I encourage people to focus on what works for their game story.

I checked the preview to get an idea of how complete the new core rule book is but there is no table of contents for it. Does it include comprehensive star ship construction and sector creation rules? Edit: Oh never mind. My will to want overrode my patience to wait and I went and bought it... :o

How about a set of limited edition specialty Traveller dice made a Pirates of Drinax theme?

I am reminded of the issues I have with Amazon and self published writers. It's easy to say that the public will review and see the garbage carted away but in truth this doesn't happen as much as we would wish. There really does need to be some official means of vetting the good from the bad or...

I have struggled with this at times too. It's a bad question in that what's hard sci fi changes every few years based on recent scientific discoveries. Gravity field manipulation based tech such as plating is becoming more real everyday based on recent discoveries in field generation and the...