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   Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:26 JST Worthless Bums

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   ship's fund: Cr0

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:28 JST Worthless Bums

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     "Great Rift Adventures 1-5: A compilation of adventures set within the empire-less expanse of the Great Rift. Includes revision of the first three Great Rift Adventures already released, plus two completely new titles - The Undying and The Lost Garden. A resource for Referees whose Travellers have ventured into the Great Rift, providing adventures that can be pulled out at a moment's notice."

     ah. yes. ok

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:28 JST Worthless Bums

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     in terms of money spent i think mongoose/traveller is now firmly in the lead out of all the rpg stuff i own

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:29 JST Worthless Bums

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     oh the last two aren't even for sale on their site, just the first three

     what happened there?

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:30 JST Worthless Bums

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     studio2 has their own site with some traveller books that neither mongoose nor dtr have physical copies for... lol

     oh no i'm in danger

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:30 JST Worthless Bums

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     oh shit mongoose has a combination great rift adventures 1-5 for pre-order

     guess i'll see what that's about

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:30 JST Worthless Bums

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     although... one wonders how they fit 5 adventures crammed into one physical book and what they cut...

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:31 JST Worthless Bums

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     i also have the tripwire adventure (i don't remember buying this but okay lol) but it's in jewell which is a long ass way away

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:31 JST Worthless Bums

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     it looks like officially mongoose only has one other solomani rim type adventure on their site

     but that's okay. that's what old pdfs and spinward encounters is for xD

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:32 JST Worthless Bums

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     wait i have a jump 1 ship

     am i stuck in this cluster lmao

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:32 JST Worthless Bums

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     drop pod/cargo hold fuel shenanigans incoming

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:33 JST Worthless Bums

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     murder on arcturus station was pretty good. built off the base of the amazing adventure, added a pre-adventure to lead into the murder mystery better

     overall better laid out and updated than the original

     i think it would have benefitted from a 1-2 page sample of an overview of how they thought it might be neat to run it in a simple spiderweb/breadcrumb way

     running a murder mystery as a first adventure is probably intimidating for new refs

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:33 JST Worthless Bums

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     now to collect my ship, get to banasdan, and get paid

     i'm sure nothing will go wrong

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:33 JST Worthless Bums

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     freight cargo is still bullshit lol

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:34 JST Worthless Bums

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     the fun part about energy weapons coming with a power pack included in the price is weapons with the same price as the power pack means you should always just (try) to buy a new weapon

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:34 JST Worthless Bums

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     always customary to yell "I'M THE MEDIC IF I DIE YOU DIE!"

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:35 JST Worthless Bums

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     alright starting to get annoyed that they released (two? at least 2?) updates in 2022 and when i bought this crb i got a different version in pdf

     it's the same (or similiar) as in 1e according to 2016 2e and the physical book i have

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:35 JST Worthless Bums

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     also my hardcopy central supply catalogue has it right as well

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:35 JST Worthless Bums

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     for extra fun my csc was updated... in 2023 xD

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:36 JST Worthless Bums

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     why does a tl11 laser pistol's power pack cost cr3,000

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:36 JST Worthless Bums

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     iirc in 1e it did as well, but that's because all battery packs were uniformly expensive af

     in trav 2e a laser carbine battery pack is cr70

     a laser rifle's is cr150

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:36 JST Worthless Bums

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     even if you rated it as cost per shot the laser rifle's power pack is 5 times less expensive than the laser pistol

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:37 JST Worthless Bums

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     Yeah that's what I thought

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:38 JST Worthless Bums

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     (the primary reason being that attempting even regular 8+ skill checks with DM+0 is still a balls trap)

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:38 JST Worthless Bums

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     it's weird how mobile comms don't go past tl 10

     "that thing everyone has? it doesn't get any better than this!"

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:39 JST Worthless Bums

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     i still think jot is an overrated skill but as someone with a jot 3 character i admit i have to think a lot less about what she does xD

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:40 JST Worthless Bums

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     also it's embarrassing how chrome deals with pdfs better than adobe acrobat

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:40 JST Worthless Bums

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     it was MURDER

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:40 JST Worthless Bums

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     why does weaseling look like it's spelled wrong

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:41 JST Worthless Bums

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     i'm still trying to play the twofer arcturus adventure i got recently but i gotta help a friend do a thing so

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:41 JST Worthless Bums

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     i just wanna say that, in my homebrew, it takes seconds to minutes to hack most computers instead of hours and this objectively makes the game better

     I'M IN

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:41 JST Worthless Bums

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     sabre iv's a pretty alright setup to arcturus station

     will have to prep the murder mystery for later

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:42 JST Worthless Bums

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     the good thing about being in debt and basically having no money is you spend very little time buying stuff

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:42 JST Worthless Bums

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     "ship is a famous and respected trader"

     well she's now crewed by a shady broker, a wanted psionic, and a disgraced navy commander

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:43 JST Worthless Bums

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     the physical (second 2022 update?) crb does not explain this AT ALL

     it's in the slightly different pdf version o_O

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:43 JST Worthless Bums

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     i found it

     the pdf places it right before the prisoner career where you expect it, and entire page of information

     it is boiled down to one side panel pages before in the physical book, sandwiched between a bunch of irrelevant information about making alien travellers

     why

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:44 JST Worthless Bums

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     i like how regeneration is explicitly noted as not being able to regain lost sco

     why would that even logically make sense??? xD

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:44 JST Worthless Bums

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     does the crb not explain how prison thresholds work at all

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:45 JST Worthless Bums

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     huh

     yeah only citizens and drifters are different for service skills

     ooooookay xD

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:46 JST Worthless Bums

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     they don't actually tell you what page testing your psionic strength is from the life events table, and it's not at the psionic career page...

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:46 JST Worthless Bums

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     that said there is something extremely funny about playing in the official third imperium, having soc 0, and then triggering psionics

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:46 JST Worthless Bums

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     wait so i don't have to test for potential in the psion career? i just get them all as service skills?

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:47 JST Worthless Bums

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     "i've got hot hands for rolling stats today"
     - bums, right before he hits a nat 2

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:47 JST Worthless Bums

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     my first two characters were so smart and both failed to get into uni

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:48 JST Worthless Bums

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     alright i think that's the first traveller done except for skill packages i may or may not apply after i roll a few more

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:48 JST Worthless Bums

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     i did notice a few differences between their core rulebook updates

     notable: anagathics cost per term went from 1d6xcr200,000 down to 1d6xcr25,000

     which is, of course, bullshit so 200,000 it is xD

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:49 JST Worthless Bums

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     oh you can't really conceal even the advanced lp tho. hrm

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:49 JST Worthless Bums

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     ah fuck it i rolled gun twice and want gun combat (energy)

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:50 JST Worthless Bums

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     ah i shoulda taken gambler instead of broker

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:50 JST Worthless Bums

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     also holy shit it's easy to come out of traveller 2e with a whole ass ship huh

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:50 JST Worthless Bums

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     hold on i can muster out with a laser pistol tho

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:51 JST Worthless Bums

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     guys i'm in so much debt lololol

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:51 JST Worthless Bums

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     my bad luck at university and skill tables was made up for with anagathic rolls at the end of my career despite a -1 soc dm lol

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:52 JST Worthless Bums

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     7, 4, 10, 10, 9, 11 is an absolutely wild stat array to start with

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:52 JST Worthless Bums

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     MY 11 INT 10 EDU CHARACTER FAILED TO GET INTO UNIVERSITY HE ROLLED A 4 LOL LMAO

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:52 JST Worthless Bums

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     obviously this is fringe world discrimination

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:53 JST Worthless Bums

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     wait what fucking year is it in the actual 3i

     fuck lol

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:54 JST Worthless Bums

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     what unholy things will my crew do for anagathics? let's find out!

     (they cost 1d6x200,000 credits a term now holy balls lmao. notably a hard sell during character creation but on a monthly basis in-game still not /that/ expensive..)

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     Worthless Bums (worthlessbums@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 04:23:55 JST Worthless Bums

     alright i need a new rpg thread and i need to actually run the 2e version of traveller so wheeee