Author: justinaquino
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Writing Skills Down more Thoughtfully
I dont know how to describe when I describe skills in this way: Example: 1) select a people or cultural…
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Walled Garden of Apple – the Vilani Nobility’s Tech Monopoly and Cartels
In Gurps Traveller Interstellar Wars (2200 to 2300s; 2100-2299 ) the Vilani being an Imperial Monopoly and Cartel going crazy…
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What would be a different Ship Design System for Cepheus Engine?
So in a Metric based and Delta-V Budget Cepheus Engine Ship Gen with a Spreadsheet You can imagine it as…
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Career Design Notes for Alternative Cepheus Engine
200607 Scout Creation 200611 Drifter Creation 200611 Soldier Creation It must be remembered in Homebrewing there is: No wrong answers. …
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Progress with Scout
What makes the First Career Draft difficult is all the Character Creation Mechanics that needs to be organized. I’m used…
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Change of Paradigm – Advantages of Harder Scifi Aesthetic
World Building. That the Ship is NOT some shark or enclosed space means it can be modular. As it is…
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Anki – Brute Force Learning
Brute force is charging in without a Plan. A plan being taking 4-6 hours to arrange things and work out…
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Alternate Jump Constraint, Near Space
Its a minor thing but because I made Fuel Tanks reaction mass for Intra-stellar travel. what allows multi-jumps? What is…
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A shuttle sketch
Used GURPS vehicles and ISW to sketch out the ideas. This is something I wanted to know when I decided…
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The paradox of Failure and Importance – some prethought strategies
In a TRPG there is a strange paradox where the higher the stakes, I expect a harder and harder roll.…
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Criteria to make my Careers Consistent.
I realize that anyone can tinker with this, and change the “Controlling Stat” depending on the “Culture” of the Entity/Institution.…
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I’ve become Fossilized
I use a lot of my work skills in my games. I do Requirements Gathering and apply Interpersonal and Team…
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Distraction in my Alternate Cepheus Engine writing – How to rewrite the Introduction
I got distracted writing my Game Prep. After some thought while I stretched and hygeine I realize I can break…
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Authority is not the Solution
Problems at work where Authority is NOT the solution. Technical Design – who make the Requirements, BOM, SOW, Drawings, and…
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Ships and Dimensions. Relearning Blender and some basic flight science.
I was really distracted wanting to know what the layout would be if the ship was blended wing and if…
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Tinkering around with CE SRD Spreadsheets
Having a chance to Sleep on it, it being the Spreadsheet for CE ship building. The great thing about SRDs…
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Schelling Points – Space combat – Same as a real life project at work or a bid, except for the lethality
In COADE or some of these space combat mechanics (Non-Dog-Fight Mechanics) can be simplified as ONE shelling point. The GM…
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Taxes and Margins – Ways the GM can simplify his Job
I realize that not everyone enjoys the Books keeping, but the problem with not doing the books is CONSISTENCY that…
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Trade off of Older Ships: usable in GURPS, MgT2 and CE.
This Exercises the Sense of Technical DEBT of the GM and the Players. If you want to exercise your Total Cost of…
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2020 May 13 Review of Old Traveller Notes
Digging up my old Traveller notes is a pain. Classic Traveller ship spreadsheets, Mongoose Traveller, Interestellar Wars, and now MgT2. …
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Cepheus Engine Tinkering – Scale, Size, Range, and Velocity.
So there are some Tailoring (PMBOK term) I want to do with CE to make it easier for me to…
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Spreadsheets and Gaming. Cepheus Engine and MgT2.
Lessons Learned after reviewing Traveller and Cepheus Engine after my long hiatus. Traveller is a game where you make a…
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A lifetime ago i could draw
What did I learn? Using an Ipad6 with 2GB ram of about 500usd would take twice to thrice as long…
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Luzon ECQ update of List of Information Sources
200430 Here is the list I can scrounge Up 200427 ECQ FOLDER https://tinyurl.com/yap6p4z8 GITB ECQ Notes https://tinyurl.com/ycb4aedw Chat’s Tracker https://tinyurl.com/ydys8nda…
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Luzon Enhanced Community Quarantine Notes
TIL that the Essentials Goods lists DTI memorandum 20-08 has been expanded, 20-16 and 20-06 have been updated. DTI’s list of Advisories…
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XP loss Rate, Training and Conditioning, Overcoming Weaknesses
If one believes all skills need maintenance, then XP has a shelf life. That over time our ability to get…
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Unlearning Argument of Authority
The argument of Authority (and its all other forms like see the Sub fallacies and related arguments, normally accompanied by…
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Test Characters: Fighter as Baseline, Long Lived Races Amnesia
The Fighter is the Baseline So I should balance the Professions and Specialists against this. From the looks of things…
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Test Characters, How I made my Load Out gsheet, and World Building fun.
Creating the Test Characters made me realize the following. Gdocs having Columns eats up a ton of ram. I noticed…
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Limited Modifiers – it can be anything, just prioritize
In a TRPG you can make a character’s success hinge on arbitrary things – see “For want of a nail”…