Recent content by steveh
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The Best RPG Cover Of All Time
My favourite RPG cover of all time. Always has been. Now I know why. Thanks for sharing. -
Efficient space only freighter design
Oh, I didn't calculate the cost of the ships. Calculating costs would have been meaningless as the whole enterprise would require dedicated infrastructure, of which the ships would be only one part (and possibly not even the biggest part). I'm sure that if it was a real situation, teams of very... -
Efficient space only freighter design
I was thinking about megafreighters such as these on my blog a few weeks ago. (I can't link to it here, but search for fourlettersatrandom.blogspot and then search for "Cargo and freight".) Following a train of thought that assumed I would have to import food to feed the 26 billion people on... -
Efficient space only freighter design
Having recently read The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, I would expect the design of the ships, the ports and the containers to go hand in hand. So, where there is a high volume of shipping between two worlds, ships/ports/containers will... -
The Premises of Traveller: 3. Most Worlds are Unimportant
Yes, completely. That's why Rethe at TL 8 and Enope at TL 7 don't make sense to me. We couldn't have a billion people living on the moon or Mars - we're not technologically advanced enough. I would nudge their TLs upwards a bit to make them more feasible. -
The Premises of Traveller: 3. Most Worlds are Unimportant
I hadn't thought about the data like that, but I had other thoughts about how Traveller generates its worlds. I don't mind the fact that Traveller has a small number of highly populated worlds - that makes sense. I have more issues with the fact that the original Traveller rules put those... -
Mysteries of the Ancients
Also, I've just noticed that the Library Data is odd - it seems to be a lot of information from Secrets of the Ancients, but omits entries for the various planets (Callia and others) in Mysteries. -
Mysteries of the Ancients
I also spotted a few typos and errors in Mysteries of the Ancients Page 6 - "...same creature encountered at Callia." Except there’s no sign that the creature was ever at Calefaction. (It’s mentioned in a blink-and-you-miss-it reference about Project Gannessa on page 34. But if Project Gannessa...