Recent content by Stofsk

I think the worst crime that can be committed in an advancement XP system is slow advancement. You can have too fast, and too slow, and both are bad, but I think too slow is the worst of the two. You want your character to progress and level up and gain new skills, feats, and game-bonuses (like...

Absolutely. I'd put my hand up for more Gateway material.

Correction - anime shows will have giant robots fighting each other in hand to hand or with laser swords, because that's clearly the most superior way to fight wars. :) Battledress is supposed to be the final word when it comes to fighting battles. Black Hawk Down was about a small group of...

Yeah good luck - I'm lucky my LGS stocks MGT on their shelves. I've given up going there, I buy everything online now.

The next one could be about Citizens and Merchants (and/or Scholars). There needs to be a book for the workers, professionals, and guys just working to make an honest credit in the Imperium. But a book on the Nobility and how the political apparatus works in the Imperium would be welcome. A...

Well, Kirk had his fair share of diplomatic missions ("A Taste of Armageddon", "Journey to Babel" and "Amok Time" stand out, not to mention the plot of ST6 rests on Kirk and the Enterprise offering the laurel branch to Chancellor Gorkon and the Klingon high command), military missions...

That's not a huge issue anyway, as TOS was supposed to depict an age of sail feel with one ship on the frontiers by itself, with sporadic communication with the home base at the best of times. Captains are given a wide latitude with regards to personal authority. I think the warp speeds are a...

God, the Irish will use any excuse to get drunk. :)

I was just curious, especially about working out the volume of each compartment of the ship. White globes are force fields and the way shields seem to work in Star Trek, they seem to go through percentages after taking enemy fire, which suggests (at least to me) that there are internal...

I'm going by what is observable onscreen in the tv show episodes and movies, fyi. Also, I am not using the recent reboot film as a guide, but if I did, the 20K dton figure would be wildly inaccurate (the new Enterprise outmasses the old version quite spectacularly) as would the weapon systems...

I don't understand your post here. How is bringing up other ridiculous hairstyles proof that Londo's wasn't? My remark wasn't even intended to be taken seriously anyway. I don't mind it. Different colour hair isn't all that bad, and can even be appealing.

More to the point, why would you need mechs when you have battledress? Infantry can go places where armour like tanks and other fighting vehicles can't. I get that mechs are cool, I really do, but if you want to justify them you're wasting your time. Any piece of military hardware is designed...

He was my favourite supporting character, but I loved Londo the most. It's often been said that B5 seems to be in large part, the story of Londo Mollari and his rise and fall. He was in equal parts, funny, and tragic, and his arc was the most interesting. Once you get over the ridiculous hair...

It might be because when a particle accelerator or meson gun hits a target, radiation damage occurs resulting in a crew hit. In the setting, this feature might make it strictly an offensive weapon. Whereas having lasers, missiles or sandcasters means you can argue the turrets are primarily...

You're stretching. The point is, making the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs had nothing to do with the Falcon's hyperdrive speed. Relative to what? If you drove down both routes at a constant speed of 50kph, but one route happens to be shorter than the other, and all other things being equal...