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Annual Cost of Living takes care of the following: Food Utilities Telecommunications. Repair and Replacement of clothing and small personal devices. Taxes and Financial Obligations. Housing is not part…
Read more →This should also help in character creation, by setting expectations and understanding how things work. Spacer 5cpCore Skills: Professional Skill: Spacer (A) IQ-1 [1] (B215) Spacer (E) IQ [1] (B185)…
Read more →Made a sample character based on the guide lines and process I made. Ironed out some kinks… a lot of kinks and made it all more presentable. I had this…
Read more →The Default Campaign: Terran Free Traders (google docs link) Character Creation Guidelines Step 0: Pre-game Prep. Familiarize with the Game Setting and Background history. Chapter 1 (ISW6), Chapter 2 (ISW17),…
Read more →Updated 4-26-2012 Finally got around to detailing IMTU robots. I think my brother would love this. This is for Androids and Robots. Sources of Note: AI and Software Cost UT25…
Read more →Reading through the thread Appropriate gear for TL3 soldiers – Steve Jackson Games Forums: I’ve come to realize that you don’t need to go all that Historical if you can make…
Read more →This is the Ying Xiong, this is a specifically designed economy class model and knock-off of the Hero for $14.32M, the price includes ithe cost of a microboat. At Accel…
Read more →This is meant for fleet protection and given the range of TL9 jump-capable construction is 100-4000, 400dtons is pretty big. Basically its a Screening and Range Extention Role. I want…
Read more →Vilani is Apple and Microsoft, Terrans are Linux and Opensource. Vilani don’t make crap, they make awesome Products they’ve perfected milleniums before Terrans became “civilized”. These products have been perfected,…
Read more →This is the first ship to travel to Bernard Star as of ISW22 The Jump Drive, it has enough jump capability to Jump 4 times. This means it can jump…
Read more →Part of my detailing IMTU:ISW setting. I wanted to paint a more detailed picture of current circumstance and the past. My idea for the game is nothing new, I want…
Read more →Below is a 2000Dton Carrier coming TL9. It is capable of 2 Jumps at Jump-1. The extra jump is for escape, it is not used if it cannot be helped.…
Read more →I wonder what the operational costs of following will look like: TL9 J-1 100dton J-1 200dton J-1 400dton J-1 1000dton J-1 4000dton TL10 J-2 100dton J-2 2-jump 100dton J-2 200dton…
Read more →One side effect of living on a ship is that your cost of living is paid and you don’t get a lot of temptation to spend. When the crew does…
Read more →Calculating Sections is hard and messy. I noticed I have to keep adjusting, also I have some contrary opinions regarding how man power should be distributed in a Highly Automated…
Read more →Correction and Update 4-26-2012: i forgot to add a zero in my calculations… I did the cost of operations of all the merchant ships in ISW and the Gupr Traveller…
Read more →Cost of Living in poorer countries are lower, but there are significant trade offs. First consider what makes up Productivity: Productivity is the Value of the work done. Increases in…
Read more →This is how to integrate GURPS InterStellar Wars so that it won’t conflict with Ultra Tech, beginning with computers. Computers In ISW164 for computers, use UT25 for cost, weight, and…
Read more →GDP per Capita is a great way to measure Technology over time. The economic metric of GDP/C allows one to measure a state’s relative productivity per individual. My assumption of…
Read more →I got to fixing my Ship Building Spread sheet. I’ve added a bunch more steps. I’ve probably spend 7 hours behind the screen doing all this. What an interesting way…
Read more →Manpower costs are a pain to the bottomline I was doing the numbers how much it cost to operate a defense ship for a year for an economy or government.…
Read more →People live longer, they can have more than one family in their life time. They are more productive and technology allowed us to multi-task to a degree allowing us to…
Read more →Finished the chapters in my learning course regarding Motivation for Learning and Intelligence and Learning. I’m happy about what I learned about the first lectures, it a very handy set…
Read more →Ancient Era is my open standard term to what would be Low Tech Eras in GURPS. I admit its not very accurate, but so is Low-tech, but it will do…
Read more →In GURPS IQ is kept static per era, the only thing affecting IQ per Era is TL disadvantage and advantage. If you look closely at the rules an option allowed…
Read more →I was supposed to make a follow up on my second to the last post. What i did was breaking down templates into 5pt and 10pt chunks that way its…
Read more →GURPS: where is the conversation skill? I bought social engineering a couple of months ago, and I've read through it enough, so I thought. Strangely I just realized while i…
Read more →Came from hong kong and got to visit Ehobby Asia. Because of Philippine Import Laws sucks… The batteries I bought. i bought around 8, saved about 8000-12000 pesos if I…
Read more →These Background packages are meant to give color to the character templates in pyramids adventurous occupations men-at-arms. This also allows the players and GMs to easily build non-warrior character. Mental…
Read more →HoldFast said… Nice work! Do you think that putting these on a Creative Commons license might get your work noticed and thus create opportunities to use your drawing talent? I don’t…
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