Recent content by Vormaerin

Imagine the elder days when you had to shoot the can like a missile first and have the sand cloud floating in space between you and your enemy when they fired at you. :D Fortunately, they upgraded to precognitive launchers with time travelling principles, so you can spray them into position in...

And this is relevant to a demand to "fix" that some references say 2000 tons and others say 2400 tons in what way, which was starting point of this tangent? Besides which, that's not actually true because the BCS category is 2400 to 100,000 dtons, which is hugely variant in the issues you...

Done. Now what?

Yes, that was the point. It's a category that has no useful value. Most likely introduced to resolve some argument no one remembers from decades back. A 2000 dton freighter being ACS and a 3000dton Freighter being BCS means nothing. Now, we could imagine things to make use of this distinction...

Deepnight Revelation says that ACS goes up to 75,000 dtons now :P

Yup. I just wonder in what way is this classification of any practical value that we need to put effort into maintaining it?

Dunno. That seems like a bit of a pointless effort, since there is no mechanical difference between ACS and BCS ships that I am aware of. It's not like there's a tax difference so everyone makes SUVs that they can label trucks (low import tax) instead of sedans that are labeled as cars (high...

While I am not particularly married to Charted Space, specifically, I do agree that it is a very significant source of appeal for the game. It's just that, since there aren't other settings until quite recently, it also turns off a number of people who only know the bullet point review of it...

Softer than what? CT didn't even use stat modifiers on most tasks and then they were all over the place. Losing stats was bad, but in an amorphous and hard to quantify way. Guns had a minimum Dex and a Bonus Dex, which varied between weapon types. So if you used a carbine and didn't have a...

I just told my players that you aren't really that old. Future aging meant 50 was the new 30. And that the "aging" roll was just to scare you out into adventuring instead of piling on more and more careers. IIRC, I told them to halve their character's age and add 10 to get the 21st century...

They are both about as true as complaining about THAC0 and 1st lvl wizards only being able to cast one spell a day is for D&D.

I was responding to the previous post about why have setting parameters on technology at all. The point was exactly that, that different tech choices are important to the feel of the setting. The fact that GMs can choose to change them does not mean that the setting shouldn't have them.

The purpose is to have consistency of expectations. Why does 2300 have different technology than Charted Space? Why does Mindjammer? Why does Pioneer? They are all Traveller, after all. Why does the core rules say that a significant portion of Army veterans have cybernetics, but that's not...

So, instead, you have constant discussions about why your product makes garbage versions of whatever because it doesn't solve the problem with this or that from the CSC that was never expected to be part of Charted Space. Any referee can ignore guidance for their own campaign. But if they come...

They should because *you* can ignore that for yourself, but it establishes a baseline for what is and isn't expected. If no one knows whether or not every piece of machinery is a robot or arc field weapons are commonplace, then you have no consistency in the products. Take ion weapons. They...