Recent content by Vormaerin

"Freedom from want" in the sense of having everything that you could possibly desire is, of course, impossible by definition. There's all kinds of intangibles that will never stop being wanted. There are also unique material things that cannot be had by more than one person. You and I both can't...

Because conceit has more than one meaning and it is the correct word for the use I put it to. It comes from the same root as "conceive". Unlike concept, it suggests a deliberate choice for effect. It also has a meaning in poetry related to an extended metaphor. Ships are highly automated...

I do believe the rules say "suppliers or brokers". But, ultimately, I disagree with your assertion because I think it is mistaking "rules to make players able to do stuff" with "how things happen in general". The rules are designed so that the players are going to get cargo no matter where they...

That assumes that you can't get any cargo or passengers at the alternate destination or that you aren't compensated for any additional expenses if that's the case. It isn't hard to not see things in the published material, when there's approximately no published material covering the topic. You...

? Obviously if the destination isn't the planet, then there's no reason you'd land at the planet. If it's going to some space station or whatever, the free trader can likely just go there. Probably just directly arrive in the vicinity as part of the jump instead of going anywhere near the...

I find it somewhat difficult to imagine that a Free Trader or Fat Trader would actually use a highport unless the downport has some significant element of danger associated with it. Direct pick up and delivery to the surface would be one of their few actual advantages over full sized commercial...

The setting is absolutely not portrayed as being post scarcity. It just is difficult to think of reasons why it isn't given the technology that they do have. It's just one of the conceits of the setting. Like why humans actually do things that you'd reasonably expect automation or robots to...

Yes, I missed that you were talking about the Vehicle Handbook and the Vehicle Catalogue. I thought you were talking about the updated Vehicle Handbook vs the existing Vehicle Handbook. I would expect the two numbers to be unrelated, because the Vehicle catalogue is not a core rulebook...

Isn't that how it is with the already updated books (Core Rulebook, High Guard, CSC?). I have the updated books in pdf only, but that's what is shown on the list at the start of this thread.

If past practice is any guide, it will be 4 and 4 with the cover title changing to Vehicle Handbook Update 2025.

It is nasty, but it is not quite that nasty. You almost never test Dex directly so the -2 to Dex is not the same as a -2 DRM. Traveller's stat bonuses are adjusted in increments of 3. It happens that an average stat changing from 7 to 5 is a -1. But changing an 8 to a 6 is no change to the...

Even the sub TL 8 systems that are part of a polity like the Third Imperium could well be extensively developed. For example, in Flatlined, the "main world" of Neon was very low tech, but an Imperial megacorp had a major mining operation in the asteroid belt.

I don't actually have a problem with Aslan having lower Dex. They always have. I am more concerned about how the current rules make stats mods substantially more significant than they were when those values were originally chosen. This may not be a problem. But I wonder if anyone has actually...

Stacking 3 dimensionally is irrelevant. Someone still has to pay for that to be built. And they are not going to build more than they expect to use, because that's wasting money. After all, you can spend that money building orbital manufacturing or orbital habitats or shipyard or any number of...

Ultimately, we are talking about a society with pocket cold fusion, fabricators, advanced robotics, and cheap orbital, interplanetary, and interstellar travel. The fact that they are NOT post-scarcity is a plot hole. :D How you fill that hole is up to you. It comes down to the fact that the...