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On Sunday, February 22, 2015 11:24 PM, " [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
I haven't read the thread, but I assume the ship is easily explained as "a
mistake," rather than, "here is this canonical thing and you're not
allowed to make one, the rules say so." Mistakes are easy.
The inability of an SFRPG design sequence being written on deadlines by
people getting paid $20K/yr to produce everything in the real world boils
down to, "Duh."
> Wouldn't be the first time that something popped up in a Traveller book
> that can't be re-created using the design sequences.
> http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss//showthread.php?p=116339
> FYI: TL 12 ship with a TL 13 jump drive and power plant
>
> There was also one of the design sequences in FF&S (I don't recall now
> which one off the top of my head) that simply couldn't produce equivalent
> 20th century real world designs. Simple solution was just go ahead and use
> what FF&S gave you with the knowledge it was "wrong" or use the
> contemporary numbers for whatever it was and not stress about it.
> Ultimately though we're speculating here about the "how" behind a canon
> storyline. The story is indeed correct as you state by default. The "how"
> has more wiggle room.
>
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On Sunday, February 22, 2015 11:24 PM, " [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
I haven't read the thread, but I assume the ship is easily explained as "a
mistake," rather than, "here is this canonical thing and you're not
allowed to make one, the rules say so." Mistakes are easy.
The inability of an SFRPG design sequence being written on deadlines by
people getting paid $20K/yr to produce everything in the real world boils
down to, "Duh."
> Wouldn't be the first time that something popped up in a Traveller book
> that can't be re-created using the design sequences.
> http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss//showthread.php?p=116339
> FYI: TL 12 ship with a TL 13 jump drive and power plant
>
> There was also one of the design sequences in FF&S (I don't recall now
> which one off the top of my head) that simply couldn't produce equivalent
> 20th century real world designs. Simple solution was just go ahead and use
> what FF&S gave you with the knowledge it was "wrong" or use the
> contemporary numbers for whatever it was and not stress about it.
> Ultimately though we're speculating here about the "how" behind a canon
> storyline. The story is indeed correct as you state by default. The "how"
> has more wiggle room.
>
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