Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Jeffrey Schwartz (23 Jul 2015 17:03 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Grimmund (24 Jul 2015 12:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Phil Pugliese (24 Jul 2015 14:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Ethan McKinney (24 Jul 2015 15:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Grimmund (24 Jul 2015 16:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Bruce Johnson (24 Jul 2015 16:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Ethan McKinney (24 Jul 2015 18:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kelly St. Clair (24 Jul 2015 22:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Christopher Hilton (25 Jul 2015 02:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kurt Feltenberger (25 Jul 2015 02:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (25 Jul 2015 03:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kurt Feltenberger (25 Jul 2015 03:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (25 Jul 2015 03:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Christopher Hilton (25 Jul 2015 03:42 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (25 Jul 2015 04:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kelly St. Clair (25 Jul 2015 07:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (25 Jul 2015 08:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Postmark (25 Jul 2015 09:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (25 Jul 2015 10:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Edward Anderson (25 Jul 2015 11:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Phil Pugliese (25 Jul 2015 14:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kurt Feltenberger (25 Jul 2015 18:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kurt Feltenberger (25 Jul 2015 03:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (25 Jul 2015 04:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Phil Pugliese (25 Jul 2015 14:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range William Ewing (25 Jul 2015 20:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (25 Jul 2015 22:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Grimmund (26 Jul 2015 00:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (26 Jul 2015 01:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Ethan McKinney (24 Jul 2015 17:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Craig Berry (24 Jul 2015 20:54 UTC)
RE: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Anthony Jackson (23 Jul 2015 21:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (24 Jul 2015 00:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (24 Jul 2015 00:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (24 Jul 2015 00:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Ethan McKinney (24 Jul 2015 00:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (24 Jul 2015 03:46 UTC)
RE: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Anthony Jackson (24 Jul 2015 20:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Richard Aiken (24 Jul 2015 21:19 UTC)
RE: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Anthony Jackson (24 Jul 2015 21:55 UTC)
RE: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Ethan McKinney (24 Jul 2015 00:17 UTC)

Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Kurt Feltenberger 25 Jul 2015 02:59 UTC

On 7/24/2015 10:34 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote:
> Nuke-hardening your plots is one choice. It even happens to be mine. But when I GM Traveller, I usually end up being accused of wanting to run an elaborate physics simulation, not a role playing game. Many people seem to be more happy with a handwavium solution, some sort of magical drive that pushes things like spaceships around without being "dangerous" as in dangerous to a neighborhood or a city. One should be thinking of Niven's "The Ethics of Madness". When I end up playing in one of these handwavium settings, I sometime wonder aloud where we get the unicorn blood needed to lubricate the drive.
>
> -- Chris

Personally, I play RPGs for escapism.  When Traveller introduced TNE and
tried to quantify everything with 20th century knowledge and physics, I
lost interest.  I want adventure, not physics.  I want to play something
that's less "Interstellar" and a little bit more Star
Wars/BSG/Firefly/B5 where I don't have to worry about whether what I'm
doing is breaking some Law or Theory.

But that's me.  I need a break from real life so I game or write.

--
Kurt Feltenberger
xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com
“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not
living enough." - Me