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The Firebird replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 2.Honestly I don't think we can say anything plausible about what space combat will look like. All the "realistic" scenarios take... -
The Firebird reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with
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And lasers have one big problem. Distance. Lasers disperse over distance. If you fire normal green laser from Earth to Moon, with beam... -
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I think the idea that space combat would be fought with missiles to be incorrect. It would have to be energy weapons like high powered...
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The Firebird reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Amen. Interstellar travel, by the laws of physics as we know them, is pretty much impossible, and it isn't looking good for...
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The Firebird reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Half right – there are RPG origins, but they aren't Traveller. The first inklings were Ty Frank doing some work on lore for a planned...
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The Firebird reacted to Zil's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
I remember reading somewhere that the origins of The Expanse were in a long running Traveller game. Traveller always leaned towards...
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The Firebird reacted to Cergorach's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Sure, how we think about that now. But just how realistic is the psychic goo and the giant space portal? Or how realistic is the actual...
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The Firebird reacted to Cergorach's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Depends, what kind of story is being told, what kind of atmosphere is being set, and what kind of technical designs are being...
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The Firebird reacted to lewpuls's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Picture courtesy of Pixabay. A Change of Space When I write a Worlds of Design column about worldbuilding I usually think in terms of...
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The Firebird reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids? with Like.
What was unfair about it? It was literally said in the railroad thread, and here you said people "want to be able to just punch people...
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The Firebird reacted to Saracenus's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
When you say that fans are upset with X, you are forgetting that vocal fans are a sub-culture of a sub-culture and not as representative...
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The Firebird reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What I Learned Switching to Reddit For A Bit with
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As some folks may know, I feel the need to take little breaks from EN World every once in a while. It is a "It's not you, it's me"... -
The Firebird reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids? with Like.
This is why so many bad guy groups in fiction are patterned after the Nazi Party.
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids?.This. Above all, zombies are boring. Even an always evil but smart species can be negotiated with. There is the classic deal with a...
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The Firebird reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General In 2025 FR D&D should PCs any longer be wary of the 'evil' humanoids? with Like.
The problem with suggestions like this is that it rules out a lot of creativity. For instance, there are several "dirty trick" methods...