Recent content by Vormaerin

I don't understand the question. Jack of All Trades does nothing except reduce the penalty for unskilled use. So, yes, you can make unskilled rolls using Jack of All Trades. And you shouldn't be applying boons/banes or other modifiers, because the whole point of the "skill" is that it offsets...

It's basically just annoying that the attempt to make Engineering and Astrogation skills "important", they have changed the setting in substantial ways. Originally, jump was intended to be reliable and "moving from planet to planet was as safe as flying from continent to continent today". You...

Freighters are NOT normally shipping for consumers. They are shipping for businesses. Consumers WILL (sometimes) pay for faster delivery. Businesses almost never will if they have any way to avoid it. Container ships can absolutely cross the seas faster than they do, but it uses more fuel and...

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 Drive is the most important specialty, because there's an actual discrete instance where you can say "ooh, make a skill roll". But in the fiction (rather than...

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 100dtons. That was just the rule in CT. You didn't need an Astrogator unless your ship was greater than 200dtons, either. So you didn't need one on a free...

Not really. At least, not if Future Man is anything like modern man. It's pretty consistently established that businesses won't pay more for faster delivery if they can just order earlier. Consumers will sometimes pay for faster delivery, but even then there's a lot of resistance which is...

You have to have a very large ship before you have enough engineering crew for all those specializations. You are unlikely to see that degree of specialization is commercial operations. Military might have an MOS of "Jump Drive Technician" vs "Power Plant Engineer", but not merchants. Aside...

I have always been under the impression that "average difficulty" is the average difficulty of a dramatic action whose outcome is in doubt. It is not the average difficulty of doing that job under normal circumstances. You aren't rolling a Pilot check every time you dock your spaceship or file...

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 useful of the three physical stats by a significant margin.

Well, sure, we actually have zero information on how Imperial trade actually works. 100% of the data points are oriented around tramp by small freighters. And, worse, tramp traders that are hyper simplified to be playable at an RPG table. So, for all we know, it's super profitable to run...

You are correct, it does not talk about recovering tanks. But it does talk about freight and passenger service using jump tanks being a thing in the core that could spread to the fringe. So something has to be different from the rules in High Guard or that wouldn't happen, as you rightly...

Actually, that's not how the rules work. Aging is not injury and the medical care rules only apply to injury.

We are talking about what battle dress should be since it appears it is being revised in the new book. So that does not limit the discussion to the current iteration of the rules.

I like the idea of changing the aging system. I just think it takes more work than just doing that. I basically don't use the aging system at all in my campaigns (people do age, but not in the course of chargen or typical campaigns). I change the rank system to be 10 ranks instead of 6. Easy...

"I want the rules to be different because I like something different" is fine. But "a different setting uses different assumptions, so this setting should use those same assumptions" is not a persuasive argument for making the change. :)