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    swordtart replied to the thread Emergency Passenger Capacity.
    Don't wanna be drinking from that fountain :)
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    swordtart replied to the thread Antique Weapons.
    Indeed slings were reputed to have an armour penetrating capability. That needs however to be be considered alongside the lower...
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    If you are willing to hold your nose, you can use a hybrid of the two, but it is easier to keep them separate. Weapons from the CRB and...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Diving for cover.
    Not forgetting of course that as it is a reaction "Diving for Cover" can be done out of turn and in addition to your 3 minor actions or...
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    I meant in terms of the Recoil property in the Field Catalogue. It has a recoil of 7 (4D = 4 + Auto 3) that is completely negated by...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Antique Weapons.
    I think the issue is more that weapons do enough damage to one-shot kill an unarmoured human, but the ancient armour doesn't provide...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Antique Weapons.
    Earlier iterations did apply modifiers by weapons against each armour type. It looks like to the to hit rather than damage which is also...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Antique Weapons.
    Field Catalogue introduced the Lo-Pen trait that multiplies the effectiveness of armour, which is a bit clumsy as it doesn't take much...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Antique Weapons.
    But if you are going to make the effort to put ancient armour in the book (and allow low TL systems in the genre) you need to treat them...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Antique Weapons.
    Then it would be a function of the strength of the archer not inherent to the bow itself. We are also talking about default TL1-2...
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    swordtart posted the thread Antique Weapons in Traveller.
    Playing FALDOR recently I hit a bit of a speedbump. The poor low tech peeps are all using rubbish yestertech and so I was expecting a...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Robot Crew Oversight.
    Great for getting you back from the pub when you lost all coordination.
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    swordtart replied to the thread Robot Crew Oversight.
    We have very different design aims here :) If you could just change the brain in the Cr5000 Labour Droid design to a Brain(X) you would...
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    swordtart reacted to Terry Mixon's post in the thread Robot Crew Oversight with Like Like.
    Very nice!
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    swordtart replied to the thread Robot Crew Oversight.
    Got a job too tedious for your overpaid sophont employees? Sick of overpriced technology filled with bloatware or are you just a hard...
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