MonsterX
Emperor Mongoose
I don't know. High SOC people can sometimes make you feel really bad when they say mean things.It's more relevant to Melee combat than SOC though.
Why is Aging worse in Traveller than in 2300 AD?
- Thread starter Terry Mixon
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Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Punch, with augmented battle dress.
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Fight?It's more relevant to Melee combat than SOC though.
I have people for that.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Yeah, unless you have a high SOC because you are a famous fighter, you have people for that. Hell, professional fighters have bodyguards too...
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Yeah, unless you have a high SOC because you are a famous fighter, you have people for that. Hell, professional fighters have bodyguards too...
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
A knight doesn't punch someone. A knight slaps someone with their glove then arranges to meet them across the river in New Jersey.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Or, if they are a peasant, simply have them executed for being rude.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Punch has quickdraw advantage.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
Knighthood moves at the speed of 2.236 squares per turn.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Knights default to hooks.
Straight punches are harder.
Straight punches are harder.
Charted Space is influenced by mid-20th century space opera like Trek and Wars, where privately owned FTL starships with artificial gravity are commonplace but human biology is mostly unchanged save for rare exceptions.
2300 AD has more cyberpunk/"hard" sci-fi influences. There's no gravity technology, most ships need big rockets to escape atmosphere, but biotech is very advanced and many people have DNAMs and/or cybernetic implants.
2300 AD has more cyberpunk/"hard" sci-fi influences. There's no gravity technology, most ships need big rockets to escape atmosphere, but biotech is very advanced and many people have DNAMs and/or cybernetic implants.
Bryn the 2300AD guy
Cosmic Mongoose
The latter point is not true in the original canon.
In the 1987 1st edition, there is stated to be no genetic engineering of people - it was something they hadn't cracked and was still experimental.
In the Colonial Atlas, Billy Connor's write-up of King was very messed up (see here). He generated a gas giant, but didn't read the rules correctly. With such a high gravity (the highest possible in the system, involving rolling all 6's etc.) he invented the DNAM to cover that circumstance only. The DNAM virus' effect was roughly 50% successfully transfected, 25% failure with only minor side effects, 25% lethal or crippled. It clearly wasn't meant for general use.
The Earth/ Cybertech SB didn't change this - retroviral transfection remains extremely lethal.
And in the edition where aging rolls start at 50 getting a DNAM safely is just a END 4+ or 6+ check.
I'd expect a telomere extension to be even easier on the body than chromosome-level GRS.
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
It is for the provolutionists...
"Provolution genetically and mechanlcally enhances its agents, but, because of limited resources and unconcern for the individual, worries little about side affects. Provolution agents are often powerful, but they pay for if in terns of shortened life expectancy, constant pain, and/or mental instability. Also, if is believed that many of societies missing persons end up as experiments on Provolution lab tables every year."
More about the provolution movement in Earth/Cybertech and Rotten to the Core. I am not fighting with the formatting of the pdfs anymore.
I really wish they had scanned this stuff properly.
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