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My understanding is that for male Aslan still part of their parents' family, they use their father's territory score. Once they're independent, their social standing mean reverts to their own territory. Female Aslan use the territory of their husband (or father if unmarried). The conclusion...

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My understanding from https://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/high-guard-update-2022-coming-july-29th.123584/post-956124 is that you do both: reduce the damage by the armour as an absolute value, and then reduce it by a percentage as a follow up. The reason for the additional reduction...

@timtoon No problem. I figured putting them all in a pdf was the most helpful thing to do, so people could print them out to use alongside a physical book. By the way, my fix for the Aslan corporation benefit is obsolete after Mongoose put out their own document on Aslan corporations.

My understanding was that you apply multiples at the *end*. That makes screens very effective, with three caveats. 1. You need to have a screen for each attack you receive. 2. A big meson gun might take multiple screens to guard against some damage getting through (and you might want to err on...

Just got my physical copy. It's a very pretty book. Unfortunately, it looks like not all the changes in the pdf made it into the physical copy. Does anyone have a list of the changes made since the print (like for the core book)?

My 10c worth is that things have got a lot better recently. The alien books felt like the nadir of editing. They were/are in a very poor state.

There are a couple of bits in the old companion chapter 4 that always bugged me. For the psionic upbringing, the qualification is PSI 8+. However, the traveller doesn't discover his/her PSI until being tested. If the character successfully qualifies, then presumably he/she has been tested, and...

Thanks for the replies. Using starship scale would have three advantages. First, the bonus to hit for size would fall to +3 (+2 for starship scale +1 for being north of 1000 tons). Second, rounding down when converting between the scales would mean that there would only be a critical if 10...

Are large vehicles too easy to kill with criticals? Picture this scenario: a farmer is standing on a headland when he sees an Achilles class Frigate go steaming by at full speed. Out of sheer devilment, he pulls out his trusty old rifle, aims for 2 rounds (6 minor actions), and then fires at...

I think it's a pretty nice upgrade. A lot of rules got tidied up, especially for big ships. All the ship designs have 2D maps as well, which is more useful for gaming. The ship designs make more sense too (e.g. most military ships now have radiation shielding).

Going back to the original question, about whether you can disperse sand multiple times, I'd suggest allowing it once per sandcaster. For example, a double turret with two sandcasters could be used against two laser attacks at 1D each, or a single laser attack at 1D+1.

Sorry - just found the answer to my question: they also work against particle accelerators and energy weapons.

I noticed that a lot of big (and, in some cases, heavily armoured) ships in high guard have a lot of sandcasters. What do they use them for? Aren't heavily armoured ships pretty impervious to lasers?

Thanks for posting that - it's a cool improvement over what's in the books. I would comment that the average payout of Cr12,500 per year is pretty generous compared to taking Cr10,000 for a clan share as cash upfront (maybe that's the "male Aslan discount" coming through). I think when I was...