Recent content by vladthemad

You could find the age of an item just by extrapolating what career path he received it from, and which roll it came from. You served five terms, and your first three terms were as a marine. You received 2 rolls, one from your first term, and one from your third. You take equipment rolls. The...

Book 1, 2, and 3? I thought you guys were getting away from that naming system? The description text on the store page was ambiguous. Are these books replacements for, additions to, reorganized and repackaged versions of, or less complicated versions of the Core Rule book and High Guard?

The design process takes tonnage from the ship when you add things like armor. Rulewise, you'd just take whatever extra tonnage you needed to add armor after the fact from the cargo hold. The problem is, once the ship is built, for realism and consistency you can't very well go adding armor to...

If he's a self aware android with combat experience, he'd definitely be outside the law. Even if he looks human, he's not getting through any type of any type of scanning device that might turn up at a customs inspection or a highport. It'd be interesting to role play, assuming the other PCs...

So they changed that from the beta to release? I wonder why?

Sadly, this is Mongoose, so when you start adding books past the Core Rules you also start adding contradictions! I'd go as far as to say that the hardened bridge includes a FIB upgrade to the computer if you want to make sense of the contradiction. If it isn't a FIB system, the computer really...

If you really don't want them, I'd say sell them. There's a collector's market out there, I've seen it. I have a friend who literally has multiple copies of just about every RPG printed in English taking up an entire room of his house. How many copies of the Fiend Folio do you really need Brad?! :)

I've gone the way Jak has as well, I'm sticking with 1st ed. Granted, 0G is a passive skill, just like Vacc Suit and a few others. With 2nd ed. I thought Mongoose meant to combine the skills of vacc suit with 0G, but after some thought that's not that logical. 0G isn't always used in a vacc...

"Life Support" isn't just the air you breathe, although that seems to be the main component everyone focuses on. It includes all the food, water, and waste facilities too. I'd argue that the costs of food probably take up the lion's share of the cost related to monthly life support, followed by...

Not sure about laundering, it was supposedly more to make it difficult to keep and carry large amounts of physical currency easily. According to the History Channel at any rate :) As far as Apple Jacks and cereal box storage, I'd like to read your citations. Sounds like it might be an...

Isn't this one of the main reasons that the courier network exists? You make your sales and pick up more cargo, then plug in your credstick at a banking kiosk at the downport and make your deposit, noting your next planned port of call. While you are getting your ship, cargo, and passengers...

The Third Imperium is a little odd regarding laws. Basically, each planet is pretty much autonomous, the Third Imperium only controls and protects interstellar space and trade. The planets pay taxes for this protection, but gain the benefit of access to the wider universe on an equal footing to...

Many versions of Traveller have listed "live animals" under speculative trading, including MgT1 and MgT2. Granted, there is no explanation of *how* they are transported, and my assumption is no more or less valid than yours. We are just looking at it from different perspectives. If there is...

Well, I guess I'm not as caught up on 2nd Ed as I am on 1st ;) My suggestion still stands though, let them trade in what they have and buy what they want.

I'll try to make it easy to understand, as it took me awhile to get some of the science behind it, but it's easy to get when it's in layman's terms. You may have figured a lot of it out as a kid actually. If you hold a bucket of water and spin around real fast, the bucket can hang out at a...