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Sswordtart replied to the thread Smuggling in Modern Traveller.War often creates opportunity. "You mean you were gun running in the middle of a civil war?" "Well, that's the best time to do it...
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Sswordtart reacted to boggo2300's post in the thread Okay, say your group wants to sell their starship... with
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I was more replying to Ol'Weedy that you don't need to buy a knockoff with the sensors removed, you can buy a real one from the IISS... -
Sswordtart replied to the thread High Guard: Preparing a Planetoid or Buffered Planetoid Hull.It depends on if you still want to pay KCr4 per DTon for the hull. If you want to do extensive reshaping of the exterior to obtain an...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.I'd prefer those distinctions to be via the stat used to operate the skill. Mechanics is an odd word to described repair of electronic...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.I also like the general skills cascading to more specific skills but it can go too far. I would have liked it to have gone further in...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.Sorry, I didn't explain that well. If you had those skills you would be rolling without penalty. You don't need to have them for simple...
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SHmmm. I agree in some places 😄 A levels are just weird, and I agree that they are as you say. However, education aged 16-18 doesn't...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.There is the Language* skill and Maths is a specialism of science (and Science 0 would mean a check at no penalty). The two examples you...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.I think we agree about this, but I am therefore confused why you tied it to a list of academic qualifications. If you are talking about...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.That was not my argument. EDU is used if you are explaining to someone how the rifle works. DEX is used to hold your balance, steady...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.O' levels were not average qualifications, only about half the student population even took them (and those that did tended to take 9 or...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.But again that ties EDU only to academic learning and the EDU modifier applies to all learning. A level Physics is not general...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.I am also noticing that very few careers are actually adversely impacted by low EDU. Ironically the career you would expect to follow...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.It should, but in Traveller the Hons Grads only get a better chance in subsequent careers over the basic Grads, there is no EDU...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Advanced education.If you were a TL15 computer engineer, EDU would not help you with that task unless you had experience of working with ancient...