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Anyone spot the typo on the first page? :roll:

Except credit isn't an SI unit so is not governed by the SI conventions. SI defines the abbreviation of kilo as k when used as a prefix (it's not a unit) only when in conjunction with its units. It's scope is specifically limited to the SI system. It's simply derived from the Greek word χίλιοι...

This thread clearly demonstrates that the term "grognard" needs to be clearly defined in the core rules book. [Cue 20 pages of arguments about what grognard actually means....]

Would you like to include my combat flowchart? For reasons unknown, the Hull Points were removed from the ship floor plans in the last reprinting.

There's a whole story contained in this picture. Where is it? Who is she? Does she know the ship or who's on it? Why are they circling this structure or are they coming in for a landing? What is this structure doing standing in the middle of a boundless flat plane? etc. There's also something...

This one, in particular, is Top Draw stuff.

If you rule simply that the one with the largest effect wins, regardless of making the target number or not, then it means that on average the person with the highest modifiers wins. So you might as well not roll the dice; just add up the modifiers. But that would go against he intent of having...

Matt, I purchased MgT2 from Leisure Games, so I get the pdf from their Bits & Mortar download link. So no idea if they have updated or not. Have you sent the updated pdf to these providers, or do they have to clock what's going on and contact you?

So, business as usual for Mongoose.

So that means the pdf has been updated as well? That's easy to check on DriveThru, but I bought my copy through Leisure Games and their BitsnMortar pdf distribution. Any idea if that will have been updated?

If you go to Drivethrurpg, it show you the latest version which is dated.

Good point Anselyn. But I suspect that's not what was implicit in the rule wording, but Matt could elaborate on this. If that is the case, I think a brief explanation would be appropriate to stop the "Huh?" phenomenon when reading the rules.

Agreed. Perhaps equipment should be expressed as DMs and environment by Boon/Bane. But that doesn't clearly categorise all events...

So does that mean if the armour is higher TL than the weapon you get a negative DM to hit? That doesn't make sense to me. Having homing ammo shouldn't make it harder to hit than normal aiming and firing. The rules description should say something like; "They gain a DM to their attack rolls...

I think Boon/Bane is a valid and useful mechanic. It skews the distribution and doesn't change the range. More subtle than a shifting normal distribution. There's no problem with what it does mathematically. It's just the criteria for its use that needs to be more rigorously qualified.