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There is a Pirate of Drinax thread, and I thought I'd make one dedicated to Skandersvik to share ideas as well... I'm thinking about using Skandersvik, since it is not terribly long, as the first stage in a lengthy campaign. My idea is to segue Skandersvik at the tail end into the Pirates of...

It just seems like something was missing in the final edit. It happens.

So looking at the Traveller Companion it is referenced that being precipitated out of a jump by a gravitational field causes "bad things" in some fashion. At one point stating "It is not possible to hit a precise emergence point within the 100-diamter limit. Most commonly, attempting to do so...

It isn't impossible, but I think they are less ideal than 2d maps. To me they are cluttered, and objects like bunks can obscure grid spaces to their left. I'd like clean, 2d maps, without room numbers or the like on them for VTT play.

I think the largest obstacle to Traveller in Roll20 is the terrible isometric maps that Mongoose has decided to use to support this current edition.

With the global pandemic nearly every traditional tabletop RPG game or club has turned to some form of VTT to continue play. In this regard Mongoose is substantially behind the curve by not supporting in the most basic fashion the ability to use their products online in a VTT game. The design...

This is a serious deficiency by Mongoose. With their current design aesthetic of isometric ship plans they are nearly impossible to use in a VTT setting. It should not be up to us, the customer, to spend hours trying to make a usable product in an environment that more and more games are being...

I'll probably run it on Roll20, so it ends up being very map oriented. But yes, otherwise I'd go narrative and just toss maps out as needed.

Yeah, that is is smudge awkward, but turning each 5dton block into a 3X3 1.5m block should be close enough.. I'm thinking about running this as part of a Roll20 campaign.

Each map square is five dtons of space. What dimensions does each square equate to if I want to map the areas in greater detail?

Valid point. Certain ammo is illegal in various places where firearms are generally allowed. In the U.S. armor piercing ammo is illegal on the Federal level, and many states have outlawed Teflon coated bullets. (...even though there is little to suggest that Teflon made penetrating Kevlar any...

I think that a gauss round should, at the very least, lose its AP qualities if it is incendiary. I agree that the rules, as written, are often guidelines, but players have these resources, and while a good player may appreciate a referee's ruling, some will feel like it is just arbitrariness...

I'm a little confused on energy weapons (LASER weapons in particular) and armor. Let's take cloth armor as an example. Does Cloth offer any protection against LASERS? It is described as a ballistic cloth that spreads impact damage, but, unless I am missing it, it does not explicitly say that...

Can a gauss round be incendiary? The rules generalize a great deal (I'm sure for the sake of simplicity I guess..) but it, personally, doesn't make sense to me that a small metallic dart could somehow have an incendiary property. But RAW I suppose it does?