[TML] travel by freighter

Tom B kaladorn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 10:07:13 MDT 2008


Interesting.

At what point do traveller ship construction metrics (I'm thinking of
MT construction - answers probably vary from construction ruleset to
ruleset) do you need to add that extra medic and/or steward? :)

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Ken & Juliane Murphy
<booksfleamarket at yahoo.com> wrote:
>    Hiya gang,
>      While surfing the WWWeb last night after work, I ran across the following page:
>
>      http://www.gonomad.com/transports/0011/miniguide_freighter_voyage.html
>
>      All about traveling the woild by freighter with a FAQ, etc...
>      Anyhow, it mentioned that such ships usually keep the passenger count to 12 or less, as that is the "magic number". With that many passengers, the ship isn't required to have a medical proifessional oboard; medical stuff being handled instead by ship's officers with some medical training.
>      Thought it might prove of some relevance/ inspiration to folks. A nice bit of color to drop into a campaign where ship operators are keenly aware of corner=cutting methods :)
>      Best,
>     -Ken-
>
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