Recent content by Ursus Maior

I would!

Fantastic, that's what I needed to hear.

Sorry for the delayed response, I've been absent due to real life events. T4 was a mess in many ways, but Pocket Empires always seemed to me like a good source for inspirations as a GM. I wouldn't deem it as being easily integrated into an ongoing campaign straight from the text, because it will...

How about the Threshing Oar-class raider? Will it be there in all its glory? It's one of my favourite ship designs and I wrote an entire story line around this for my PoD campaign. So it's a big incentive to buy the module, if this makes it an OTU design. :)

The Drinaxian Companion is a treasure trove for these things. It really has an amazing array of ideas for almost any Traveller campaign.

I think, by definition, we're currently TL7 bordering TL8 in certain fields of technology. Retrospectively, in 20-30 years, we might call the current generation of handheld communication devices as TL8 prototypes. Alternatively, we might see in 20 years that a lot of features then...

Can't wait! Can't wait! Can't wait! Also, all authors who have received money for their articles will see these articles printed, right? :mrgreen:

I totally get this and support the idea. In all honesty, my group has no desire for crunch more than Traveller offers. I tried BattleTech's vector movement rules for Aerospacefighters from their optional rules. It's nice for a 2 vs. 2 and could be adapted for Traveller easily. But it's no fun...

I think that is very debatable. First of all, none of the previous Traveller publications gave the community rules that achieved to simulate real physics in any way, shape or form. The original Traveller used range bands and "g" of thrust. Space combat was very - and I mean very - abstract...

Lived. Mr Banks died in 2013. I'm not sure, though, if we can ascertain the Culture series to have a background concise enough for an RPG. It seems to be very amorphous in many of its aspect. I did like a several of the novels, however.

Yay! The latter is a much needed addition, I had hoped to see!

I just noticed that Shadows of Sindal shows up as "shipped" in my account, but it's not in my book shelf yet. Is this a recent dispatch or do I need to worry?

Me too. I also looked into Psion from 1st edition and cannibalized it a bit for my PoD campaign. It's still 2D6, so there's hardly a problem.

If your Harrier was built there, maybe or certainly, the ship might have coordinates for it's original shipyard. Cross reference these with modern charts, do a little orbital mathematics and narrow it down to a search that will need the desired time frame. Then have them find out that the...

I took a similar approach: On Clarke, I think, it's safe to assume that not many fleet assets exist beyond the perimeter of its highport and the usual approach vectors for merchants. Fleet strength is given as "2" in the appendix of PoD, putting it just slightly above "ramshackle navy made from...