Recent content by zanwot

I think the site is unstable. Someone has hosted it elsewhere, try this: http://s3.silent-tower.org/worldgeneratorMAP4.xls

I tried one of these with a group. What I did was give the sheets of the characters pre career to the players (with basic stats and background education skills). Players wake up from cold berth in a room: They discover they are prisoners of a group of mercenaries/pirates, through a screen their...

Ouch. Sounds like the plot really is broken and nobody has found easy solutions to make it work better. I don't look forwards to the extra effort in game to make it work. The thing is it really is the kind of plot I want.

Well admitedly not all Marines use Battle Dress: You also have support, etc etc. But I personnaly would make Marines able to use Battle Dress with the Skill at level 0. Just don't expect them to make the most of the fancy tactical stuff. Nah, all those times when you roll twice a benefit and...

I believe battledress is the standard equipment of Marines. HOWEVER: Marines are NOT the standard Imperial troops. Marines are the elite space troops, I am not even sure of their numbers, who says the Imperium has hundreds of thousands of them?

Concerning this issue on the price of a battledress: I think the answer is probably in the inflation hight tech equipment has. You cannot compar the price of a modern tank to a battle dress. It is like comparing the price of an assault rifle with a sword. A primitive guy woul even argue that a...

Well as far as I am concerned that is exactly what I am describing, it is just that I can put names and explanations on things that were maybe more handwaved back then. I cannot remember the details as I was young back in CT days, but I remember one of my characters wearing a battle dress was...

There is an issue in that I am talking "fluff" while alot of you are talking "rules". I have not yet tested enough MGT rules to judge them. I was looking for a movie which would be a better illustaration of what I view BattleDress as, and I think I have found it: From the trailer it seems the...

Appart from the obvious things, I consider a guy wearing it is faster than others, and certainly is not in any way slowed down by the armor. It is really the best of both worlds for me.

There really is not much choice: Battle Dress is the standard equipment of the Marines. The Marines operate on starships. On starships space is limited. Ergo Battle Dress must fit in starship corridors, even hostile starships. Ergo it is not much bigger than combat armor. However it still is the...

The first part is so rail roaded it hurt my eyes, but in practice I think the players will probably not feel it, at least if they don't make silly choices which would require the GM pulling them back on track. Once the players make contact with the second spy in Imperium space things get better...

I'm pretty sure everybody realises that, even GamerDude (though I could be wrong, after all misunderstanding can go both ways, so I can't talk for him). Don't feel in any way you are being accused of any thing! As I was implying in my post you made a valid review, praising something is good too...

Wow, there's some misplaced reactions! Relax guys! I could have said the same thing as GamerDude, as he was just comenting on the fact that the review is so positive it could just as well be an add. It does not give me the feeling of being very critical either, just a general praise - which is...

The fact that Traveller Drives are reactionless and/or gravitic means we have no way of unverstanding the kind of energy they require. So they could very well use the kind of energy involved, and probably do.

Looking at the very cool 100 ton Nemesis class Pursuit ship from Spica, I got to thinking that for a bounty hunter, especially a skip tracer (I mean the guy who tracks down ships), it would be critical to gain even one level of jump over the standard jump 2. So I got to modyfing the design, and...