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  11. Traveller Hero is BACK!!!!

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    the green cover version with the Hero data has the wrong page 10, the red cover regular traveller version has the correct page 10, how this happened is beyond me

    The one law that never changes, no matter how far we travel in space or time, is neither Newton's, nor Einstein's, but Murphy's.

     

    my thought on this is just to copy the correct page out of my archive copy, and just put it where folks who bought the CD can download it

    That's cool. I wasn't asking you to re-do the CD. This is just an errata.

  12. Traveller Hero is BACK!!!!

    in Star Hero

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    Say, Shadowcat, by any chance, do you have (or can get, or direct me to who I should contact) the deck plan for the upper deck of the LSP Modular Starship? Page 10 of TH GAS7 has the deck plan of the Armed Free Trader (from TH GAS8), rather than the expected upper deck.

  15. Allomancy for HERO?

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    Don't forget to include a 'Power' skill in the framework for each allomantic ability. For example, a 'Steelpush' or 'Steel Allomancy' skill for steel, a 'Seeker' or 'Bronze Allomancy' skill for Bronze, etc.

     

    It was discussed in the books that Mistings often had greater depth and nuance with their one ability than a Mistborn, who had eight abilities to learn to use. In other words, Mistings put more points into their one skill, while Mistborn have to spread their points across eight skills.

     

    That, and when you come up with clever new ways to use the abilities, you will need a skill roll to make them work.

  23. A galaxy of humans

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    Re: A galaxy of humans

     

    To me' date=' a human-only future is plausible, but only if it includes genengineered, mutated, and cyborg humans. Which wind up standing in for the aliens. Conversely, a galaxy populated with only mundane humans seems really unlikely. Does the Battletech universe try to explain the absence of development of people themselves? I know it's vaguely postapocalyptic, but still.[/quote']Mostly, I think that is it. After the "Golden Age" of the Star League collapsed with the assassination of the First Lord, the remaining leaders all tried to claim the title, which led to generations of warfare and an overall decline in technology.

     

    Now, as for the "stand-in" concept, there are the descendants of the people who decided to leave when the warfare started, who later returned. Their society (while away) became based on strict genetically engineered castes, so there are effectively sub-species bred to be mechwarriors, aerospace pilots and battle armor troops, as well as "normal" humans in the tech caste.

     

    I do like the fact that there are no aliens doing strange things for reasons that humans couldn't understand. The universe is large and varied enough that different authors can tell very different kinds of stories within it. For example, Mike Stackpole was very good at following the Machiavellian intrigue of galactic politics in the midst of multi-planet warfare, and William Keith was able to tell good stories focusing on a single unit.

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