Recent content by Vormaerin

I like to see the things other people do with the system, even if it is not something I'm going to adopt myself. If someone's excited about the game and wants to share their creation, that's good in my book.

Yes? I've read all those too. Other than both being vaguely cat like, the Aslan don't act like the Kzinti. But I guess I don't understand what's being argued here. If you are saying there are useful insights into the Aslan to be gained from the Kzinti, I'd say "hell no". If you just mean "I...

Of course, Kzinti females are non sentient. The actual behavior of Kzinti males is nothing like the Aslan. The Aslan are neither the Kzinti nor the Hani, but they are much farther from the Kzinti than from the Hani in terms of how their society works.

From a game play point of view, I agree. But you aren't "returning" to the same career under the rules. You are starting a new career that is covered by the same career type. You were in the Wehrmacht, now you are in the Legion Etrangere. They are both "army" careers, but they are NOT the...

Word on the street being Matt saying this:

This is the fundamental disconnect between Traveller's basic system generation for government/law/TL, which was designed for creating high adventure backwaters and has not been adjusted to account for the ever increasing effectiveness of the Imperial goverment. It's ideal for the Trojan Reach...

Since the same guy wrote both of them, I don't think that is in any dispute. :D But there's more text changes than just illustrations. But it's the same concepts.

I'm not making the decision on that basis. IRL, if you are a former US army guy and you join a PMC or the French Foreign Legion or whatever "Army, but not the same career", what rank you get will depend on all sorts of factors that are only vaguely related to the rank you had before. However...

I would personally ignore that as the GM, but it does seem like it is the actual rule.

Oh, I prefer the grid in the hull by far. It does lead some people to get whiny about hull repairs, but I don't generally care about that level of detail. And T5 has rules on patching hulls and what effects it has on jump grids if I never did decide to care :D

Yes, but that doesn't say anything about where the ideal placement on a ship or what the ship's design would be like. It just means bigger ship needs bigger engine, which is generally true of engines in general.

IMHO, if the jump drives actually produce a jump bubble of a certain radius (which is not the version I use, but seems to be a popular conception), then the jump drives ought to be in the center of the ship and most ships should be spherical or some variant of that to maximize the volume.

Yeah, since we have no real world constraints on anything, it's easy enough to do. Most inconveniences IRL (not all, of course) have (or had) a reason for them being done that way. But RPG ship designs are as much about what people expect as anything that makes sense. No one is piloting a...

I think the fact that these image generators are massively subsidized by bubble finance is a bigger reason to consider whether they are viable once consumers have to actually pay the costs of using them. Currently, they don't.

One of the issues with the standard Type A deckplan is that the cargo hold is between the bridge/crew quarters and the engineering section. So if they did ship the hold in vaccuum, they'd have to put the crew in vacc suits because it's just iris valves between the old and the inhabited...