Recent content by twodsix

Honestly, unless these artificial gravity fields have a magic cutoff point which goes from Xg to no effect in an instant, they're going to follow the inverse square law. As soon as gravity starts getting high retreat to a safe distance and work out a way around it (assuming gravity takes time to...

Let's start with a 150dton hull, just because I know it'll all fit. M-drive = 3dtons J-drive = 7.5dtons Power plant = <100 power points, 5dtons TL15 fusion or 1dton antimatter. (not including fuel processors, but should be able to be done at full capacity with thrust 1) Jump fuel = 15 dtons...

The first thing I'd like to see is a 'universe building guide', which gives help to newer GMs on building their universe and how different technologies will change universes, such as hyperdrive leading to more centralised government or an utter lack of FTL leading to independent systems...

I don't believe there is a companion on the horizon. Honestly, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a compilation of rules from various sets. I own 1e, while my dad owns 2e, and I can tell you that the two editions are 90% cross compatible. I'm currently sticking with 1e...

I've been eyeing out, the problem is that if I wanted the more transform elements of Mindjammer I already own Eclipse Phase. I might pick it up, although I've been saying that for the Fate version as well. Not really enamored by the Mindjammer setting, from what I can find out it feels like is...

I have two universes, but the answer is the same in both. However you'll only see the answer in one. Note that I don't use the standard Jump Drive, which makes my settings rather different to the OTU. Both generally abuse the fact that ships move faster to centralise government more, with...

Indexes are hella useful, especially out of game. Instead of knowing roughly what section I want then flipping through it I can go to the index, get the page (or set of pages) it's on, flip there and scan for the heading. I've generally found indexes useless when they're bad indexes. Sure, I...

Most hard science fiction methods of time travel I've seen don't let you travel to a point earlier than the time machine you've set up (they generally involve wormholes and relativity). Now the problem is, we have just removed causality form the universe (probably, I'm not 100% certain on how...

I'm personally against psionics in most settings, and highly against anything apart from telepathy (and even then only because it's the psi in my favourite pulp science fiction). This is partially because of the science fiction that inspires me, in Night's Dawn there is telepathy but it's been...

I'm actually happy if it's been delayed slightly, strangely enough, I have 1e and I want to be able to get a physical copy of the 2300AD while paying Mongoose. I like the 1e ship building system with the lettered drives as it's simple, although it does mean I have to pick up 1e High Guard to get...

Yeah, I did roughly work that out later in the post, using 100g rather than a kilo, and we're assuming that this scales linearly (which I'm suspicious about). Even at that point we're looking at fifteen times the weight for the same power. I was more using the terrible unit to make a point, but...

That's the thing, going for realism they're unlikely to scale up that much, I wouldn't say one would be running your space kindle. Of course, if we assume we can get them to the size of a five pence coin for several applications you'd just link a load together to get the power you want. Of...

It reminds me of Foundation, and how Terminus managed to come up with fission reactors smaller than a human thumb. It's interesting, but the probability is that the power generated is probably too little to do anything truly useful. Power an LED torch maybe, but anything else you'd probably...

I suspect it's about how different people view Traveller as different things. To me Traveller is on the harder end of the tabletop science fiction spectrum, while remaining a bit pulpy. No strange transhuman things, but force fields aren't a standard technology and reaction drives actually...

I'm cutting out the previous quotes to make it easier to read. That's kind of my point, hard science fiction isn't ONE THING. I believe it is possible to write a 'true' hard science fiction story (maybe a decade into the future, if that, only visible advancement is that some cutting edge lab...