... SNIP ... Owning a starship "free and clear" of any mortgages etcetera means that you own an asset worth several million credits. You could use it as...
... I think that if you are either a captain of a vessel or are the owner and the ship is in good legal standing this would increase the individuals social but...
... lots ... I'd agree. There is a difference between wealth, celebrity and social standing - what do you think the term 'nouveau riche' means? In a universe...
Hi, this is my first entry here...one of these days I'll probably start an original thread... Re: Bill Gates: "Bill Gates has even more money, but he hasn't...
... Apologies for my late response. Many thanks to all who replied - there were some things I had already thought of but many that I hadn't. I shall have...
Just use the standard rules for improving ability scores to improve Social. By working on it you can increase your "effective" social by 1, after 8 years and a...
This is fairly complete but I would assume that your average "joe paycheck" is social 5-7 and that they would be about 80% of the population. I actually prefer...
... start an original thread... ... got a lettered social." ... Empire (for services to business, IIRC) as of the 2005 UK honors list. The honorary part of the...
... Yes, the bell curve should be much steeper than 2d6 will allow, and skewed to the lower end, but my list wasn't intended to rewrite Traveller CharGen, just...
... Gurps does offer many desirable features for the demanding player, in fact it is in most ways superior to the more familiar Classic Traveller. That said,...
Required reading?! No, I got curious going back to the first go-round in the Gulf; I've been a militaria buff since my teens (no, RPGs weren't my first public...
... They have been having fire sales through warehouse 23 lately on the GT stuff. Not sure if they are still offering stuff cheap... One starting point for...
... I tend to adapt rather than adopt. I'm running a CT core with elements of TNE, bits of T4, some borrowings from MT and combat modified from Snapshot/AHL....
It sounds that I will be going in the same direction. I went another step further and spun off the CT rules, modified then changed the genre to a post ruin...
Mad Maks 6mm Auto Emporium! (1/285 civvie automobiles) Hi Everyone, I just published a new update on my blog with a photo-rich parade of 6mm and 10mm...
What would be cool is if you could maybe do a small website with an overview of your Traveller universe and it history as well as its current political ...
In a message dated 08/06/2007 17:18:33 GMT Standard Time, ... (mailto:Classic-Traveller@yahoogroups.com) , Drel Pryn <drelpryn@..d> ... T'ain't me, guv'nor! ...
... Sorry, mate, TOO much work by far. I created a simple FAQ sheet as a player-aid, but it was more about game etiquette than political history. ... Quite a...
As one of your players, and someone who likes this sort of stuff, I could possibly help with some of this. Let me know ok? Larry ... Sorry, mate, TOO much work...
http://www.peterleeson.com/An-arrgh-chy.pdf This is a long (sometimes dry) article on how Pirate "checks and balances" can be explained by game theory. It...
Some time ago, I read a white paper on the advantages to colonizing Venus. It has been tickling the back of my mind as an adventure seed. I thought that it...
... seed. ... your ... The ... At ... a ... is ... of ... would ... per ... possible ... Interesting concept. How and where would it be constructed? ... other ...
... SNIP ... How about Tech Level 0? If you allow one BIG plot device (well 2 plot devices). I'll call it "Sargasso terraforming". One of the original...
Hi Drel (and anyone else who might be interested). By your request, some info on MTU. Below is an edited copy of the 'orientation talk' for my players. It ...
... My personal tastes lean more towards a human-centric hard science "steam-punk" feel, but you present an interesting alternative bio-tech solution. If I...
... For the initial colony (assume TL 8+ main world), the frame (ceramic-metal alloy or carbon fiber?) would be constructed in the orbital shipyard at the main...
... For the original TL 8 colony, Robotic mining of planetary resources to support the colony might be viable. A TL 12 hard suit might easily allow technicians...
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