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Fairly straightforward session. The troubles that keep building triggered a few times: We needed to deal with an intensification of the Cold War (the USAF and some Soviet...
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Recently Sammy, of Scattered Amusement Machine/TrashedTabletop fame, has been running an Orbital Cold War campaign, using an early but complete enough version of Freefallers. I...
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Much of this is adapted from the ATV rules in Across the Bright Face. Basics Mechs are a type of vehicle and use the Vehicle (Mech) cascade skill. While a variety of designs...Linked by the ring
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oldhawkeyes put together a great post about combat styles in Classic Traveller. When it was first posted, I threatened to make some of my own, so here here we are. Some of my...
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It bears repeating. One of the cheapest ways to build depth in a TTRPG setting is to reuse things. Need to introduce a NPC? It was the one that the PCs ran into a few sessions...
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Many Traveller adventures (and in similar systems/settings) are geared towards the PCs being fresh out of a career, with ‘assets’ amounting to massive debt, a half-collapsing...Linked by the ring
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There have been a few people who have asked about starting Traveller. This needs something to be asked of them before answering properly: do they mean Traveller-the-setting or...
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One of the major hassles folks seem to have when running factions in RPGs is deciding what they are trying to do and what assets they have available. One possible framework for...Linked by the ring
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Charted Space, the Original Traveller Universe is big. It is pretty too big for most practical purposes. There are a few ways to approach this. The most common is to find...
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One thing that might be useful for thinking about in SF settings is what information ships broadcast. While all sorts of things could be, a good model for what information...
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This is an entry for the SFRPG Secret Santa. Doubloon asked for a space truck stop, and well, here it is. Welcome to Jan’s Landing: Summary Jan’s Landing is an old, rundown...
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The following was intended as a short adventure seed for a simple Traveller adventure, but grew a little in the telling. It is based on the (largely improvised) game that I ran...
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Editor’s note: The following is an extract from partially burned papers from the church of St Almat. They seem to be from the notebooks of one Magister Garius Kal. They may...
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The Clacks and Post - a Magical not-Victorian Matrix Game Welcome to the city of Endon: greatest city in the world. It is a dynamic, go-getting city that is moving with great...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. An,...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. An,...
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Background I do not really use any VTT tools for running games, but folks running Traveller of various kinds often like having deckplans, at least for the ship owned or used by...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. An,...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. An,...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. An,...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. Currently working at a cleaning contractor (player unable to attend) N, playing Yannis -...
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I recently ran a one-shot of The Troubleshooters - an alternative 1960s with campy evil shadow organisations and artwork inspired by the Franco-Belgian bédé. I have run a few...Linked by the ring
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants...
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I have recently been rereading the Pern series by Anne McAffrey, and thinking about it as a RPG setting. Spoilers are going to crop up in this, so if that bothers you, you...
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Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants...
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The Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to...
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The Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to...
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Classic Traveller has a moderately arcane combat system to modern eyes. For the most part though, it is not too bad. This is an example of how it can be interpreted. If you...
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The Dramatis Personae: S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to...