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Very cool! I played a lot of Traveller in the FASA days but hate to admit I never updated and didn't keep up with the game past about 1990.

It was not confirmed at the time of posting this article. But pleased to share we'll be chatting Traveller on Not DnD on 29th September!

Pretty sure space cake is a lie...

I had some in Amsterdam just before taking a brief interstellar expedition and can confirm that such a thing exists.

Here comes the juice!

I have to admit, I kind of got goosebumps the first time my players executed a 'flip and burn' rapid deceleration move in The Expanse RPG.

I was asked once if the cgi was wrong because Expanse ships often “flew backwards” I had to explain breaking burns to them.

Lots of grandmothers were alive for Pearl Harbor and the ones who weren't grew up in the aftermath of WWII, under the shadow of global...

This never gets old:

A classic. This is another reason why I love the way ship encounters are presented in the Expanse. A ship using thrust to turn 90...

I have a difficult time with this premise. It’s difficult to cite specific examples without invoking real-world politics and risking the...

We're really juggling two contradictory ideas in this thread-- how 'real' is our fiction? Science fiction asks a lot of what ifs. It...

Strategy and tactics are highly situational. If the stakes were high enough; if the strategic objective didn't involve capture...

This is exactly right. The Expanse RPG is one of my favorite tabletop systems, with all of its Newtonian physics and somewhat...

I'm missing the option: "Depends on the story/design..." There are all kinds of fantasy sci-fi settings I like, for all kinds of...