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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    Print on demand does not produce the range of options that proper printing does. If you limit the effectiveness of makers to low grade...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    If they've been around 1200 years, they are probably common :P
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    Traveller has a nasty tendency to introduce major technological innovations and then pretend nothing changes. Personal Energy Shields...
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    Vormaerin reacted to actionman's post in the thread The Premises of Traveller: 1. "Jump takes a week/No ansibles" with Like Like.
    Exactly. It's like a magic "off button" to turn off a ship's drives to advance the plot or for whatever reason. It's like the "warp...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    I think fabricators first showed up in Traveller in T4? T:NE was still doing "portable machine shops" and other mico factories, not any...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    Traveller's definitely not designed around any kind of post scarcity, print whatever you need sort of economy. You can definitely do...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    Why isn't Bangladesh as technologically advanced as the United States? They have access to the internet and examples of the goods. It's...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    Yeah, if your players are fond of dying, loading up on high end military gear is a godsend. How else are the GMs going to feel like it's...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Earth-Standard Worlds Only.
    It used to be 25 jumps per year, because you had to spend 2 weeks on annual maintenance at a proper port. But that's been recently...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    I think the TL system is excessively granular. I don't think most people could tell you what would be different about the experience of...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread What's your goto tech?.
    This is a result of the Traveller tendency to pretend everything is in one spot and does everything. Regina is TL12 (post retcon). It...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Earth-Standard Worlds Only.
    Yeah, the first Traveller adaptation was in GURPS. I really like the idea, but it depends a lot on how you have your space...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Muster out with a scout ship - A question.
    That's one of those rules that makes no sense with the change in available technology. If you have gravitic lifters, you are not going...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Earth-Standard Worlds Only.
    Everything is vastly more complicated than any game simulation. Even when that game is The Campaign for North Africa. :D There's no...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Earth-Standard Worlds Only.
    That does not match my experience with ships. Obviously there is shore leave, but there is ALWAYS work to be done. And most small...
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