Recent content by tolcreator

My solution to this was to divide the cost of ships by ten, but to increase prices of things like fuel, maintenance, docking fees etc so to balance out. This results in a more "firefly" feel where you're working to keep the ship flying, not working to pay the mortgage. I talk about it here...

I sort of rebelled at the line "Nothing of interest here". This is a whole world, a whole system! If your campaign is say, a sandbox of the Bowman Arm, this is one of the dozen or so worlds in your campaign. I felt it was very wrong to just write it off like that. I guess the adventure just...

Murder on Arcturus Station could be modified to be on a passenger ship. Have the murder happen the first day of jump, so there's a nice claustrophobic feel as the passengers and crew are all trapped with each other. Have a good read of it first, you'll want to make some prep, choose who the...

Master Blaster runs Star Town.

Oh! Sorry I had thought you had said the opposite of that. For "great walkers, very fit", I'd expect 3.5 to 4 mph, especially if the walk is as short as 1 hour. I.e. my regular lunch time walk is 3.3 miles, which I do in 55 minutes, i.e. 3.5 mph. For a charity walk for "great walkers, very fit"...

* 2.9 mph is actually a fairly respectable pace. This works out at 4.6 km per hour. Google maps assumes you walk at 4 km per hour when working out how long it will take you to walk from point A to point B. * 23 minutes is *way* too short for a charity walk. Most charity walks in my experience...

Note that the missiles in TNE were not kinetic: Their warheads were (nuclear) bomb-pumped xray lasers. They maneuvered into the same hex as the target and detonated. The theory being that a kinetic kill missile was too easy to dodge/take out with point defence, to be of use in combat.

If it was a little bit leaky, and some of the atmosphere was leaking out, wouldn't the O2 in that rust the hull?

Also remember that in TNE, one space round was 30 minutes. So this is that G force for the entire 30 minutes, not a spike at the bottom of your dive. G-couches, G-suits both mitigated the penalties involved, so for instance with both, you could pull 3Gs (for 30 minutes!) with no ill effect.

That's the figurative combat ship. Well they said Littoral combat ship, but it spent so long in development and was redesigned so many times that "figurative" seems more accurate :) The problem with TCS, or any wargame where you spend points or money on your army/navy/gibbering hordes, is that...

Ah so you effectively skipped Mode 1 straight to Mode 2 In a previous thread I pointed out how starship mortgages have APRs that make today's house buyers green with envy. I think I mentioned picturing a bunch of heavily armed murder hobos entering the bank: "So you want to take out a loan eh...

I presume MgT. One thing I have noticed is that there seems to be 2 "modes" of operation in speculative trade. Mode 1: The initial stages, when the PCs are cash-poor. The PCs are forced to buy either small amounts of high value cargo, or large amounts of marginal cargo. Passengers, freight...

If the canon is TL-8, surely it's more like the current crop of 120mm guns? WWII would be TL-6

As others have said, it is a roleplaying game, whereas those other games you mentioned are wargames. Traveller has wargaming aspects, and previous editions had full blown wargaming offshoots, but Traveller itself is an RPG.

Thieves? They're freakin Santa claus! Just think about it for a minute. A group of four very disreputable looking people walk into a VERY SERIOUS bank. They check their arsenal at the door. "So you want to borrow 40 million to buy a starship, eh?" "Well actually 42. As you see on page 3, we...