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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    Or introduce T5's uncertainty mechanic, where the player rolls 1D publicly and the GM rolls the other secretly.
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    I don't understand the question. Jack of All Trades does nothing except reduce the penalty for unskilled use. So, yes, you can make...
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    Vormaerin reacted to Talon Greyfeather's post in the thread Crew Salaries with Like Like.
    I don't understand rolling Astrogation/Engineering until you succeed. Why bother rolling at all? IMTU, unless there is something else...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    It's basically just annoying that the attempt to make Engineering and Astrogation skills "important", they have changed the setting in...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    Freighters are NOT normally shipping for consumers. They are shipping for businesses. Consumers WILL (sometimes) pay for faster...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    That assumes that someone can actually check who has what skill level. Which is true in a game, but not in real life. In game, Jump...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    That's a house rule in Mongoose Traveller. It used to be that you didn't need an engineer at all unless your ship was greater than...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    Not really. At least, not if Future Man is anything like modern man. It's pretty consistently established that businesses won't pay...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    You have to have a very large ship before you have enough engineering crew for all those specializations. You are unlikely to see that...
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    Vormaerin reacted to hopsnbaer's post in the thread Crew Salaries with Like Like.
    I see no reason a roll should be required for a routine use of a skill as long as the person knows it. It is just more overhead. If...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Crew Salaries.
    I have always been under the impression that "average difficulty" is the average difficulty of a dramatic action whose outcome is in...
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    Vormaerin reacted to Geir's post in the thread Why is Aging worse in Traveller than in 2300 AD? with Like Like.
    Fight? I have people for that.
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Why is Aging worse in Traveller than in 2300 AD?.
    Str is barely relevant for combat. IF your strength is 9+, you get +1dmg. OMG. It's not worthless, but it's definitely the least...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    Well, sure, we actually have zero information on how Imperial trade actually works. 100% of the data points are oriented around tramp by...
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    Vormaerin replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    You are correct, it does not talk about recovering tanks. But it does talk about freight and passenger service using jump tanks being a...
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