2020-08-31
TL9 Basic Crew Vacc Suit 2200
Continued from Vacc Suit musings at TL9 One needs to explain that the way we think of suits as changeable set of clothes is NOT…
Traveller
2020-08-28
Vacc Suit Musing from TL9 and implications. Survival Rolls in Hard-Scifi Travel
I’m bothered by Vacc Suit and Combat Env Suit Stats of MgT2E. one is 10kg the other is 2kg and in the setting End+Str+Athl in…
2020-08-20
MgT2E Problems with Equipment
what i like doing with my spare time. Armor Piercing and Armor Piercing Discard Sabot Rounds were not Factored in how battle strategies and…
2020-08-15
Another Project, when the Other Lost Steam. This time Post Pandemic Philippines 2020 using Traveller SRD.
Doing a simple write up of observations into a Traveller type mechanic. If you are familiar with Mongoose Traveller, I made a “Laborer” Career. It…
2020-08-12
Traveller SRD to Philippines 2021
the equivalent of – livelihoods that are not “Careers” if I convert Traveller SRD character Gen to Modern 2021 Philippines. Note in Traveller “Livelihood Time”…
2020-08-04
TL9 Habitats, Vacc Tape, and Repair Wraps.
Stuff that I find frustrating when I’m prepping for our Traveller Game. After Delta-V and Seveneves I realized that versatility and emergency resources: like the collapsible…
2020-06-18
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 will allow for REALLY expensive…
2020-06-05
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 the constraint for jumps? I’m…
2020-06-04
A shuttle sketch
Used GURPS vehicles and ISW to sketch out the ideas. This is something I wanted to know when I decided that I’ll keep reaction mass.…
2020-05-31
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. Someone can just change the…
2020-05-23
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 it was a hex tube.…
2020-05-22
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 is that fixing loose ends…
2020-05-20
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 works back from that shelling…
2020-05-17
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 bites us in the ass.…
2020-05-16
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 Ownership Calculations which includes Factoring Technical…
2020-05-14
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. The more detailed I go…
2020-05-06
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 run. Every GM is different…
2020-05-03
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 Biz Plan as part of…
2015-12-15
Update in Homebrew Traveller SRD, Careers
An exercise of categorical thinking and how I understand my world. This Traveller homebrew has more stats. Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, Cha, and Soc…
2015-12-04
Booklet Creation
Things you can only do with an Open SRD Type System: Splitting up Booklets so that its modular and can be printed as needed for…
2015-11-11
Scope of reworking the Ship Creation System
I did some of the calculations and initial research and here’s what I got. Step 1: Hull, Costs and Tons tables. I also made a…
2015-11-09
Scope of Making a Sci-fi Reaction Drive Doctrine
In reaction to the Rob Garrita’s Reaction Drives discussion I’ve done some basics research. So i’ve inputed some of the formulas from GURPS Spaceships into…
2015-11-06
A scope of the impossible, now to trim it to something doable.
So I have to stop right now and focus on the adventure for the Mini-Con in Nov 27. But I did figure out some of…
2015-10-31
Progress update of Traveller SRD, Character sheet Draft
Draft of the Traveller Character Sheet I made. Its meant to be folded as a Booklet (spine on the left side). Inside is the basic…
2015-10-26
IMTU: Defensive Doctrine Spitballing
Common features in Star Systems that have a built up Defense. This is in settings with no FTL communications and no “stealth in space“ Underground…
2015-10-23
IMTU: Panspermia, Phylogenic Tree, “Democratic Republic”
Bouncing ideas off +Nick de Vera when I learned this term. For lack of imagination I will move the panspermia IMTU back to early biologicals…
2015-10-16
Pantropy in my Traveller
I had a terrible time finding this word: Pantropy and of all the search I did I could always rely on Atomic Rockets to have…
2014-01-13
My Review of GURPS Spaceships
It deserves its glowing review and ratings. It simplifies a lot of work when creating ships in GURPS. I have one big problem tho, its…
2013-09-20
After my first article
Wow, it was my first time to earn anything outside my income. I’ve never been successful selling my art, much more getting anything I’ve written…
2013-09-19
The GM just blew up our Ship!
The Pathfinder Chronicles: So Last Nights Game of Traveller Hit Hard: I do not normally do this as I figure that I record the sessions…