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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Traveller Release Schedule 2025.
    Yes, but in the game, that's handled by your prior career. Skandersvik, Leviathan, and Last Flight of the Amuar are fine if you want to...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why no co-pilot?.
    Yes? Duh. I would PREFER that Mongoose put in the effort to make Astrogation a skill that has value. I like the idea of the skill. I...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Traveller Release Schedule 2025.
    That's /sort of/ a merchant campaign. The players are not the merchants. The players are the crew of a merchant's ship. Yes, they get...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why no co-pilot?.
    Core skills that are a required role in a typical game ought to be things that a player can use proactively, not something that the GM...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why no co-pilot?.
    Exactly. A while back I started a thread asking how people actually make astrogation work since it's a required skill for starship based...
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    Vormaerin reacted to Terry Mixon's post in the thread Traveller Release Schedule 2025 with Like Like.
    And to go along with the merchant campaign, you need your expanded Merchant Prince rules to cover it all from small traders to...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why no co-pilot?.
    I run about half my campaigns with the PCs not having a ship. Probably more than half if you count campaigns where the players don't...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why no co-pilot?.
    They are not the co-pilot because Pilot skill is not a required part of the job. They ought to be the co-pilot, though. But the...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Traveller Release Schedule 2025.
    Well, I too, would like a proper merchant ship campaign. Not just for my own use, but because I think the game needs some attention on...
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    Vormaerin reacted to MongooseMatt's post in the thread Traveller Release Schedule 2025 with Like Like.
    On the cards, certainly - in fact, we are currently looking at two of them, one based in the Marches and the other in the Islands...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why no co-pilot?.
    Since the Astrogator basically does nothing, they should normally be the copilot. But the game seems to assume a very great deal of...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!.
    Actually, you get zombie fleets from abusing sentient rocks. :P Also, no one will actually care about hypothetical zombie fleets...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!.
    Can you explain why your remote control technology is so pathetic it can't handle a 1 second lag? A light second is 300,000km and you...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!.
    Right. So the question is why the f aren't nearly all ships like that? It makes no sense. People are expensive and annoying. I've...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!.
    That's going to get into an argument about what "Drone ships" are. Drone is usually used to mean something a human in monitoring. Like...
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