Ship's Fabricator

[MasterGwydion]

Nothing says it is adjustable in its dimensions. @MasterGwydion will undoubtedly disagree, but my view is that they have a fixed form.

Ha! Guessed wrong! lolz! I just don't bother with that level of granularity. It makes the problem a non-issue at the table.

 

[MasterGwydion]

I'd be okay with the TL17+ ones doing that. But they're space magic anyway.

It's all space magic, just some space magic has better rules than other space magic...

Edit - Or merely better explained rules

 

[Sigtrygg]

Many 3d printers today are open, so products can actually be extruded beyond the printer's internal volume. Then there are the printers that are completely open frame...

 

[MasterGwydion]

Many 3d printers today are open, so products can actually be extruded beyond the printer's internal volume. Then there are the printers that are completely open frame...

Not in Traveller.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Since when did Traveller take any notice of the real world <sigh>

 

[MasterGwydion]

Since when did Traveller take any notice of the real world <sigh>

It's worse than that. Just a few sentences away it talks about how low-TL fabricators are exactly like modern 3D printers when this is obviously contradicted on the same page of the book.

 

[Endie]

My guess is for the same reason that the hammer in My toolbelt doesn't change dimensions based on what job I want to use it for? It could, in theory, but that is covered nowhere in the rules. Maybe you could combine a fab chamber with an adjustable hull type thing, but I have no idea otherwise.

You have a TL13 hammer?