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HTML5+JavaScript is also cross-platform and can be available off line if it's done right.

Excel spreadsheets are mostly cross-platform. Depending on what macros you use it might even work in OpenOffice.

-- 77IM

+1 vote for JavaScript and HTML (5?). Based on the lifepath examples, using lifepaths this seems almost trivially easy. Each step of Lifepath adds some skill and attribute points and some benefits. Should be pretty easy to just sum them up. The extra points at the end that might be tricky. A decent ...

Two NPCs are having a discussion of something controversial, with opposing views, and ask a PC to weigh in. - Does the PC equivocate or refuse to take sides? Do they take a side, and what are the political repercussions? Are they able to propose some sort of compromise? This encounter is "just ...

I guess I always assumed the planetary tech levels were maximums, not averages. Like on a TL6 planet, the PCs could reasonably be expected to track down and purchase a TL6 item or find someone to repair their TL6 item -- even if this was only available in the main spaceport. The rest of the planet m...

That's tough. As a serf, it's easy. Hawkwood and Li Halan are both known for treating their serfs much better than the others. Hazat and Decados treat their serfs poorly. Al-Malik, for all their talk, aren't especially good to their serfs. But as a freeman... well, you're free. Your main issues woul...

(Oh, and nice job seeding the new forum with topics, btw!)

There are plenty of reasons a party from various factions would work together. ⋅ They all have a common patron that trumps their interfaction squabbles. The best example is being Imperial Cohorts to an Imperial Questing Knight. Other patrons might be the Imperial Eye or Kalinthi. ⋅&nb...