Recent content by thrash

I've searched my copies of the TML from 4 Sep 1997 (when GURPS Traveller was announced) to 13 August 1998 (when my files run out). The only direct comments from Marc Miller on GURPS Traveller as canon that I could find are: The only use of the phrase "non-authoritative rule set" on the TML...

It is explicit in GURPS Traveller because I wrote to Marc Miller and asked him for a ruling -- do intervening bodies cause precipitation or not? His answer was that it does: Mr. Miller may have contradicted himself since then (28 December 1998), but at the time it was as canon as canon can be.

... is, as I said, an unavoidable artifact of projecting a 3D space onto a 2D surface. The differences stem from choosing a slightly different projection, not from a different underlying reality. No, your examples are flawed (though the fact that you're even able to make the comparison should...

Congratulations, Will -- you've inspired me to join Yet Another Traveller Board. "Sublight Movement involves interstellar cruising at speeds approaching 80 to 90% of the speed of light. In game terms, this is expressed as a movement of one hex per game-turn, executed during the owning player's...