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    Vormaerin reacted to Galadrion's post in the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use with Like Like.
    Also bear in mind that Steward is the primary (though clearly not the only) skill of a butler. And before anyone starts to disparage the...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.
    You can choose to make a skill useless if you want, but that is not the design intent. Steward skill covers cooking, tailoring...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread The Core Expeditions - on PDF and Pre-Order!.
    Yeah, I much prefer the "Many different possible futures" style of long campaigns to "We know what's happening and maybe we'll tell...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Be that as it may, both the Fusion Gun and the Particle Accelerator in High Guard have the "radiation" trait.
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.
    It is true that most players will not think of the steward skill as definitional the way they would pilot or medic. In my last campaign...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.
    If you say so. Steward is one of the most generally applicable "ship" skills there is. Medic is the only other contender.
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Traveller Release Schedule 2026.
    Most Traveller releases are on Friday. This one is a day early, so he was joking that Friday must be a holiday. Bank Holiday is, of...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.
    I enjoy the Mindjammer/Culture style advanced tech with sentient ships, player robots, and other nifty things and run that fairly often...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Once again, we are in the territory of 'what situation are we talking about?'. Governments with an actual space navy and reasonable...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    A particle accelerator turret is the same energy cost as a double laser turret. A pair of them on a free trader takes up 16 energy, of...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Advanced missiles are TL14, which is atypically high for merchants in Imperial space, if nothing else. Multiwarhead missiles are three...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    I was under the impression we were talking about merchant ships, so I don't consider advanced missiles or multi-warhead missiles to be...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    In the Nicholas Van Rijn story involving pirates there were state sponsored privateers capturing ships and enslaving crews to the point...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    Pirate risks in a region vary. Pirates could be other merchants, pirates could be commerce raiding warships, pirates could be a swarm of...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Merchants weapons.
    As always, this argument fails to resolve the initial condition. What does piracy look like in the area in question? In the Imperial...
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