Year: 2020
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Updates to Quick Combat and Alternative Cepheus
200413 Quick Combat – Weapons and Armor; 200425 GITB Quick Combat – Combat Mechanics, 200419 GITB Quick Combat – Combat…
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Lessons from Delta-V by Daniel Suarez
Some of my Take-Aways for the TL9 Game I’m planning to run based off of Daniel Suarez Delta-V. Asteroid Selection…
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FABS the SCRAPPER
FABS THE SCRAPPER a friend who is having his IT journey.
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Simple Container Calculator – Bags, boxes, and Containers for your games.
Check Container Calculator Subsheet I’m the kind of person who writes up his load out before going on a trip. …
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Learning Children of a Dead Earth Orbital Mechanics and Phasing.
Children of a Dead Earth was about 1usd because of the steam Summer sale. So I got it. Unlike Kerbal,…
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Quick Combat Update June 24 2020
This is system I just want to make because I want to apply the concepts I like from various systems…
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Cost of the Liberty Ship, Victory Ship, and the Type C2 Ship.
I’m using this as a Baseline for my KiloTon TL9 ships. https://tinyurl.com/y8c5uala to the Page. The Book is free, I…
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Getting Back to my April 2020 Project – Quick Combat
I got back to my April Project of Quick Combat System (gdoc link) Inspired by The Fantasy Trip, meshed with D&D.…
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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…