Recent content by ZobMan

That's exactly how I interpret it myself. I think you could also have an expert program running 'engineer - jump drives' to help you make the eng + edu roll (or even make it for you), but that's a separate thing from the jump control program, which is just a pre-req for jumping.

Good point well made. Of course we could be in the middle of a 'golden age' of technology right now, and 21st century artefacts could be much sought-after by scientists of the far future who for some reason could never figure out how to develop decent sensors, top-loading video players, or...

For me part of the fun of traveller that it's a vision of the far future as seen from the late 1970s when the first game was published. That's why nanotech, full-on virtual reality, AI, and especially comparison to modern techs don't really fit properly. Darn it it doesn't have to be realistic...

Thanks guys. Emperopr Herden, your suggestion makes more sense - ie to give the +1 for the program if your skill is equal to it or higher than the expert program you are running (as opposed to only if your skill is higher as the rules state). Otherwise a 3 skill character would be better...

I'm a bit confused about the (uncharacteristically) complicated computer rules in Traveller - which generally seems pretty straightforward otherwise. Specifically: a character uses the Expert Navigation/3 program. As I read it the following cases arise depending on the skill of the character...

Legally, I'd have thought there would need to be somebody who was responsible for the actions of the ship. For example if it flies dangerously or undocks without permission etc, you'd have thought the imperium would want to know who to blame/fine/imprison/execute. I'm not sure how this could be...

..although percentile does literally mean 'per hundred' so on a d66 roll you should be calling for a 'persexasexagentile roll' or something! Seriously though - it's an elegant system and works just as well as the d100 roll. There are no numbers 'missing' as 17, 28 & 39 don't exist in base-6...

Along similar lines I have a question. I know you can have a 'stat test', such as rolling and adding your endurance DM to hold your breath, with no skill DM added. But when rolling a skill-based check, do you always add an appropriate stat? In the example given under the skills section there...

I've noticed how traveller-like the world is in those books. It has low berths (zero-tau pods), the equivalent you mention of the '100 radius' limit, and a sort of lo tech vision of the future many things (guns, lifestyles, sports, and drink etc.) are vaguely analogous to today. The big...

EVE online has an excellent in-game news service. http://www.eve-online.com/news/archive.asp Filter for 'News from EVE'. There's probably an archive somewhere too.

Calling ruleslawyers! I have a couple of questions about the starship rules. I know these might be clarified in High Guardt but just wondered how you guys plyed them: 1) When refining fuel on board ship, do you only obtain a certain proportion of the unrefined hydrogen as refined fuel? 1:5...

Thanks guys. I'd not even though about using computer game generators! Not sure I can risk reinstalling EVE though - I'm only just out of re-hab after the last time it took over my life... Will check out this RPOL business as well.

Hi all Does anyone know of a decent web resource for getting character portraits that would work with Traveller? I like comic book/manga style stuff myself, but anything I could point my players to and ask them to pick from would be great. Cheers ZobMan

very nice - thankyou

I had to enable the macros to get it to cyxle subsectors...