Recent content by Vormaerin

Sure, it's published material. You'll probably just never see a hop drive again. Just like Personal Energy Shields are canon and no one in even a single published book actually has one. :D But, yes, if someone at Mongoose wants to write future adventures around the adventures of TL16 ships and...

They are last week's trash for the Ancients. :D

I doubt they are trying to invent skip drives when they don't have Hop drives, but supposedly the three technologies are not really related so it's possibly someone is moving straight from Jump to Skip. Or from no FTL at all to Skip, for that matter.

Which is the point of all these different campaigns. Some people are excited by super powerful aliens and gaining personal power for their characters. Some people want to do big military stuff. Some people want to see a technological revolution. Others want to survive as it all burns down...

Canon's a term only relevant to Mongoose authors. The original canon on Hop drives is that they don't get deployed to a significant degree for another 8 centuries, but that "fact" is pretty much irrelevant to any actual game at the table. And may not be true any more. Absolutely someone is...

Yes? That's true. Maybe I misread something, but I was under the impression the argument was being made that *MONGOOSE* should be doing the applying of these things to the wider setting in an official manner. I couldn't care less what someone does with the setting on their own. More power to...

I am. Where did anyone say anything about how you run your game? My position is that *you* should be running your game. Saying I don't want Mongoose publishing material that assumes an particular outcome of a random adventure they published and expecting new material to conform to that is not...

If Mongoose wants to start running different product lines for Charted Space: 1105! 1150! Whatever and commit to actually writing books that implement the new technologies with all their effects at the society and structures, that would be interesting. As long as they are clearly labelled...

It didn't wreck the setting because it isn't actually applied. That's actually a big problem for a lot of the rules. They write the rules. They don't actually use them. It's now pretty straightforward, if not easy, to cross empty hexes but everything still pretends Rifts are major obstacles...

That kind of setting change and growth should be determined by the GMs, not by publishers. It just pisses off players. The published setting should be pretty static, because once it's at the table, it belongs to the players. Publishing Singularity is fine. Making Singularity the basis for...

This thing that stopped being true about 30 years ago is apparently the main thing the average person "knows" about Traveller. 😈 😟

I'm fairly confident that "prototype" and "mass production deployment" are not intended to go together. Once we do have TL17 drives in place, Charted Space will be a quite different place. There's a lot of Rifts and other elements that will become irrelevant. For instance, you could hop from...

So, the default in the 3I is the X-boat, which is a 1 man J4 ship that follows established routes with waystations at intervals for maintenance and whatnot. They basically jump into a system, transmit the data to another X-boat that jumps out while the original gets the usual maintenance. The...

That's probably true, but the original comment was explicitly about the IISS being a subordinate service to the Imperial Navy.

That's true, but no one has produced a source that conflicts with it that I am aware of. If they have, I'd like to see it.