Author: justinaquino
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Problem and Opportunity: Why less Efficient and Cheaper Boosters First?
Question: Should Referees require players to calculate how many and how big the Boosters do they need to Escape a…
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Learned the rocket equation. Been sick.
Yesterday I learned the Rocket Equation, instead of simply calculating burn Time and adjusting the mass for every second in…
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Missiles and Scale. Checking the numbers.
Imagine a 400mm diameter missile made up of a ring 8 60mm solid x 3000mm rockets. Inside its core is…
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Hard Scifi – Why would you want to Play with Rockets in a TRPG?
Do you remember the number of rolls you make as you leave the Star-port and Roll for Jump. The Risk…
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Sizing Ships – Part 1
My process is so cumbersome and slow. Here I am comparing visually the scale of a 8:1 cuboid and…
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When to Roll for Information and Senses.
JUST a simple breakdown or decomposition technique in providing information. When to Roll for Information and Senses. Narratively. Does the…
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New Spreadsheet – that would add another month. Probably Dec
This Ship Design System is going to be Complicated, holding more Detail than the current CE ship system BUT because…
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Probability and Gaming – Additional Actions for Success
So a lot of my work is the inspiration for my Gaming, one of the Risk Management concepts that affect…
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Major Changes – Scope Creep
Scope Creep – why did I add more Scope? because my Assumptions were violated – that I thought I can play…
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Ship Compensation and Roles.
Determine Skills required and SHIFTS > Determine Personnel > then Determine Expenses and Compensation. PAY Cr 1000/mo per level of…
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Preview of On Going work – Maintenance Summary
I dont know if anyone feels terrible when they didn’t see a Rule that was about, lets say, about Maintenance…
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If I want the hobby to survive past me – making systems easier to learn
I’m currently working on another book for DTRPG drawing from my Homebrewing. simplifying maintenance, repairs, and damage. Making one wholistic…
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Slowly learning – Simple Rockets and how it relates to Traveller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity Q: If the earth requires 11KMs Escape velocity, when I achieve it at 11.1KMs 𝚫V does that mean I…
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Rockets and pushing my limits
All the tools that go to delta-v to be easier goes to designer notes. Sure write the simple parts down…
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Efficiency Reflections on Emphasis and reality
Rotating detonating engine and Small Modular nuclear reactors remind me of nuance approaches to the technology. That we don’t…
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Less Rolls, Uncertainty for the GM, and more focus on Reading the Players.
if the GM is fast and loose about the success of the players action to action, how can they create…
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Being that Annoying Pedantic Guy – Role Playing Operations
I dont know how many people need things to be in a System – where relationships and key terms are…
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Its Great, not perfect, but that doesnt stop it from being Great
When I tweak a system typically I do the following: 1) lessen the steps – I map out the…
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To write Game Material that makes it easier to have Fun
When I wrote my tools in conducting Narrative Combat, Adrian (My editor) taught me to put under Designers notes. One…
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Seeing Terrible things inspiring my Games
i did this analysis before in my other Job when I worked with BPOs. I’m doing the profitability analysis of…
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Today I Learned: Stars and Wishes.
8/22/2018 Stars and Wishes Today I learned about Stars and Wishes technique used to get feedback about the game so…
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3rd world biz deals, ship operations
One of the things people don’t really explain about Philippine construction is that gov’t tends to expect that after time…
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Baseline Performance – the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs.
The Saturn-V is a great sample rocket. Its performance and Stats are readily available and its a great baseline since…
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Some Progress – Ship Analysis
Help people understand how run a ship. Know their costs and how to use the various KPIs. Make that FUN…
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Pdf Outliner for your PDF products or materials
This is so that you can put Outlines in your PDF – I used it for updating my Drivethrupg Mneme…
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Leaders and Accountability. Going through a lot of Leaders.
If we hold leaders to be accountable and people fear that they will run out of leaders – then let’s…
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Reserve – a concept that should come before the concept of Profit.
https://pmstudycircle.com/contingency-reserve-vs-management-reserve/ I dont hear a lot about RESERVES. In pmbok we learn about Reserve, Allowance, and various types of reserves…
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Efficiency Curve – I have to make a Chart on the Efficiency Curves.
So the Thrust to Weight Ratio determines an Efficiency Curve for the Mass Ratio (Fuel to total Mass of the…
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Its all about the Mass, Structure of Ships
Instead of Distributed Hull, I will be changing the terms so that the reader can easily transition to the harder…