Recent content by steve98052

I'm quite impressed with Guns, Guns, Guns, but a bit disappointed that I haven't heard back on the proof of purchase for a spreadsheet e-mail. It's pretty involved to use without a spreadsheet, and I don't want to write my own if there's a debugged spreadsheet I could download

Aren't there enough errata to cover the errors in T4? Or was it broken in design rather than just copy-edit issues that could be fixed in errata? One thing that's great about SJ Games is that they have errata for practically everything. Interesting to see anything GURPS labeled abstract. I...

Question for weapons gearheads: I just got the T4 CD, and I see that it includes an edition of Fire, Fusion, and Steel and lots of other good stuff like the Milieu 0 setting (which was the main reason I bought it). I also have lots of GURPS books, including Vehicles 2 and most or all GURPS...

Yes, the analysis of side effects is a big part of what I was referring to. Consider the canon of Star Trek. Sometimes a piece of technology that's routine in most episodes can break the plot of a specific episode, so the episode writer invents something that disables the routine technology...

My standard substitute for a smart phone, watch, etc. is eyeglasses that include a computer, communications system, etc., with the glasses as the display. For concentrated work it can make the display opaque, but normally it operates as a heads up display. Input can include speech, typing onto a...

A different way to look at the distinction between hard science fiction, fantasy, and the continuum between is the attention paid to self consistency. By that measure, game rules tend to run harder than novels, and novels tend to be harder than movies -- often even game rules based on movies...

I use a program called Fractal Terrains to generate worlds, but that only covers geography and climate. It would be interesting to see a Fractal Cities book though. If I needed more detail about a city, I might just take a real city that has been detailed out on Google Maps, and substitute...

GURPS Traveller did have Social Standing, in the form of advantages and disadvantages. It just isn't an attribute in the same way as Dexterity, Intelligence, Strength, and Health are.

I designed ships to cross the Rift, including a point where a Jump-8 gap is crossed with a Jump-4 to deep space, a pause to check equipment and another Jump-4. It's expensive, but cheaper than detouring through Corridor or the Jump-5 route through Aslan space. It can be built in whatever...

Here's one of many articles on the subject of adjusting the Earth's orbit by transferring orbital energy with comets or asteroids: "Nasa aims to move Earth Scientists' answer to global warming: nudge the planet farther from...

Part of my Traveller coin and currency project is finding decent art. I know there are are portraits of Stephon, Iolanthe, Ciencia Iphegenia, Duke Norris, and a few others, but with one exception they're all by J Andrew Keith or in his style, and owned by Far Future. Example Keith artwork...

On a slow, "our system's star is warming and we need to move farther away" time scale, the job can be done without superscience.* The idea is to send rockets with fission power plants to comet sized iceballs, use the ice as reaction mass, and change the iceballs' orbits so that they pass close...

I was actually thinking about making such a thing myself. I did make some a few years ago but they weren't very nice. I stalled on the project to do it right for several reasons. 1. Getting art that doesn't look cartoonish requires money to pay good artists, even if I do the graphic design part...

I'm tempted to do an illustration. The geometry is easier than a lot of things one might draw.

I would imagine that highports would have warehouse spars that consist of long spars with lots of docking clamps, maybe a pair every four meters or so, with each pair offset 90° from the pairs before and after. To use them, pay for a clamp reservation, clamp a stack of 10, 20, or 100 shipping...