Recent content by Vormaerin

As always, this argument fails to resolve the initial condition. What does piracy look like in the area in question? In the Imperial Core, it's probably entirely hijackings, barratry, and opportunistic merchant in the backwaters. Very unlikely most merchants would actually be armed at all...

Honestly, the envelope it came it was practically worth the cost of the goods. (This isn't a picture of mine, which has a different image of the free trader on it. But I don't have it immediately to hand to take a pic so I grabbed this one off the internet)

Calling something a moneygrab implies that it was a bad job done solely for money without any actual care for quality, with a general implication that the sale is a scam. Or that something disingenuous like intentionally leaving out important elements so you could sell them separately happened...

There's lots of players who like to have someone else do the custom design for them. The number of players who will actually engage with those rules themselves has always seemed pretty limited, both in my direct personal experience and on the internet. And that's with the internet actually...

Because miniaturization was, in fact, the core breakthrough that used to define Fusion+. That's why in T5, ship work stations can have their own Fusion+ power distinct from the general ship power. Fusion+ was, along with Jump Drive, originally marked as "a technology that might or might not...

This is also true of all the construction books. Very few people actually build Robots, Vehicles, or Starships themselves. Even fewer put in the attention to detail that Terry does.

They are as entitled to credit as the author.

There shouldn't be people on starships. But the powers that be don't want the ship to be able to fire weapons without human intervention for some reason. Also, the 1 ton of interior volume that a turret includes was usually defined as the fire control system. It used to be de rigeur to reserve...

The correct reading is 3. It has the better of the two computers. It is a Waferjack that ALSO performs as a neural link. The Neural link on its own just connects an existing computer to your nervous system so you can use physical skill expert systems and is otherwise just a neural commlink...

That's the whole point. The quality control in RPG books is generally not great and Mongoose has certainly never been one of the top performers in that area. They stopped the "rush to print" by putting the PDFs out well in advance of the books, because we'll find way more errors than they ever...

Yes? What does that have to do with anything? Are you proposing that we don't release the pdfs early and go back to the old way? Or do you want the printed versions to be delayed even more? Or was this just a non sequitur?

Besides, the whole point of releasing the PDF before the print edition is so we can get some of the errors caught before it gets a final printer ready version. :P

Obviously, it's a silly semantics argument with no meaning. But it is interesting that just saying "Let's play Traveller" does not actually tell you anything about the game except that it's Sci Fi. D&D varies quite a bit between it's 7+ editions, but they all use the basic D20, character...

Or.... since Skip drive is TL 20+, it is entirely possible that someone will get around to replacing the TL 9 Maneuver Drive with something faster by that point. Then you can have your Sprint Drive crossing the solar system in a few hours or whatever.

"No one uses Hop drives, because if you aren't dead on target, you appear where your M-Drive doesn't even work for bleep. And even if you appear perfectly, you are a week or more from your destination!"