tsykoduk :K_VERIFIED_PURPLE:
tsykoduk :K_VERIFIED_PURPLE:  Β·  3 weeks ago

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Been working on some Traveller adventure writing set in the wilds around some β€œextralegal” ports.

And I’ve been really thinking…

What is the difference between a bunch of heavily armed outlaws building a base, and β€œtrading” with their neighbors and a (polity? Empire?) other then scale and treaties?

#traveller #ttrpg

Strange Quark
Strange Quark  Β·  last month

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It has only recently dawned on me that artist Mark Harrison who illustrates space opera story "The Out" in #2000AD is the same Mark Harrison who wrote and drew "The Travellers" in #WhiteDwarf forty years ago.

"Syrena, when you've seen one A788899A planet, you've seen them all." Classic!

Mark also illustrated #ThrudTheBarbarian for White Dwarf. (1/2)

#Traveller#TravellerRPG#Thrud

Screenshot of a website with art by Mark Harrison, https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/ The picture shows the crew of the Osprey crouched around an egg resembling the one in Alien, with the caption, "In space, no-one can hear you laugh".
Screenshot of a website with art by Mark Harrison, https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/ The picture shows the crew of the Osprey crouched around an egg resembling the one in Alien, with the caption, "In space, no-one can hear you laugh".
Screenshot of a website with art by Mark Harrison, https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/ The picture shows the crew of the Osprey crouched around an egg resembling the one in Alien, with the caption, "In space, no-one can hear you laugh".
Alex Keane
Alex Keane  Β·  2 months ago

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Reading through books from the "More Reading" list on the #Traveller wiki.

Current book is The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper. I'm just short of halfway through it. I'm really enjoying it, except for where the fact that it's from the early 1960s comes screaming to the foreground with things "but we can't expect the women folk to use logic." Otherwise loving the plot about trying to use an almost religious devotion to a falsity to motivate a community to improve

#HBeamPiper#SciFi#Bookstodon

Spinner
Spinner  Β·  2 months ago

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Do any other Traveller players use the Miller rules for M-drives in gravity wells? It encourages you to put reaction drives on your ship if you really want to survive a slight mis-jump that puts you in between worlds and too far from the star. It also encourages a ship that operates far out from the gravity source, to plot an eccentric orbit that brings them back in again so their drives will eventually resume functioning.

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vdonnut
vdonnut  Β·  2 months ago

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Sometimes I think that thanks to the inherent debt spiral #Traveller is better at diegetic explanation for adventuring than any of #DnD systems. I mean it basically forces you to adventure by how spaceships and debts are set and how it sets up all the things like jumps, worlds, where to buy stuff, how to make money, patrons and pirates.

I think if you worked on feudalism as Coins and Scrolls does it you'd have diegetic adventuring more like Traveller than DnD.

https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2017/06/osr-death-taxes-and-death-taxes.html

Alex Keane
Alex Keane  Β·  3 months ago

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Had a post from Grognardia show up in my feeds today reminding me of this excellent post from A Knight at the Opera analyzing why the simple mostly black cover of Classic Traveller is so effective:

https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-best-rpg-cover-of-all-time.html?m=1

The distress call really does set a mood better than most any illustration I've seen on an RPG cover.

#Traveller#TTRPG

Norton Glover
Norton Glover  Β·  3 months ago

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I mostly finished creating all of the worlds in the Foreven sector for my ongoing #Traveller campaign.

Most of them were randomly generated, a few were designed, and a handful were taken directly from various Traveller/Cepheus books. I used the TravellerMap site to generate my own map and booklet.

I'm going to tidy it up a bit, and make a final version for my players. Will most likely post it on my blog as well.

#TTRPG

Lazarou Monkey Terror πŸš€πŸ’™πŸŒˆ
Lazarou Monkey Terror πŸš€πŸ’™πŸŒˆ  Β·  3 months ago

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Bless the little cottage industry coders who honour a payment made in 2012, I purchased Astrosynthesis 2.0 many many machines ago and after delving into Traveller Lore these past few months it's time to dig out the old universe I made.

Now if only I could remember which one of these old hard drives has the starmap data on it.....

https://www.nbos.com/

#Worldbuilding#Traveller#SciencFiction

Jon Hancock
Jon Hancock  Β·  4 months ago

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The equipment descriptions in the Mongoose 2300AD rulebook come just before the relevant illustrations, which leads to this accidental juxtaposition of the excavating tools illustration with the locksmithing description due to them appearing at the bottom of the page. In fairness, this quite accurately illustrates my characters' usual approach to picking a lock.

#RPG#TravellerRPG#Traveller

Image taken from the Traveller 2300AD RPG by Mongoose. Picture shows a selection of hand excavating tools, including a pickaxe, hammer, spade and hatchet, above a text description which actually accompanies an illustration overleaf. Text: "Locksmith Kit - A locksmith kit contains tools for opening mechanical locks. On most worids it is illegal for an individual to possess a locksmith kit without a local license. The locksmith kit allows a Traveller to use the Mechanic skill to pick mechanical locks. All locks are rated by the difficuty of picking them and lockpicks by the bonus they add to the Mechanic check. If the locksmith kit..."
Image taken from the Traveller 2300AD RPG by Mongoose. Picture shows a selection of hand excavating tools, including a pickaxe, hammer, spade and hatchet, above a text description which actually accompanies an illustration overleaf. Text: "Locksmith Kit - A locksmith kit contains tools for opening mechanical locks. On most worids it is illegal for an individual to possess a locksmith kit without a local license. The locksmith kit allows a Traveller to use the Mechanic skill to pick mechanical locks. All locks are rated by the difficuty of picking them and lockpicks by the bonus they add to the Mechanic check. If the locksmith kit..."
Image taken from the Traveller 2300AD RPG by Mongoose. Picture shows a selection of hand excavating tools, including a pickaxe, hammer, spade and hatchet, above a text description which actually accompanies an illustration overleaf. Text: "Locksmith Kit - A locksmith kit contains tools for opening mechanical locks. On most worids it is illegal for an individual to possess a locksmith kit without a local license. The locksmith kit allows a Traveller to use the Mechanic skill to pick mechanical locks. All locks are rated by the difficuty of picking them and lockpicks by the bonus they add to the Mechanic check. If the locksmith kit..."
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