There are a bunch of ways the King's plan (such as it is) can work. And yeah, there's an inherent contradiction between the two halves of the plan, with Rao pushing the 'steal stuff and break things until our fleet of pirate bastards rules the stars' and Harrick going 'hey, maybe we could fly around...

Nope. it's from Adventure 10 in the campaign. Check out p. 246.

Wow, that's fascinating. +1 Commendation Point, citizen.

You're obviously way beyond the scope of the campaign as envisaged, especially in terms of elapsed time. So, throw my Part 10 as written out the window - it's of no use to you. You need to answer the following questions - or, more precisely, set up a situation in game where the _players_ answer them...

It's possible, given Drinax's chronic lack of resources, that the Tower can only produce a small supply of anagathics.

Ambitious player characters could go out, score more raw materials, convert them to anagathics, and then go dealing drugs across the stars...

Take a look at the Blue Planet rpg - that's got almost exactly the same setup as you describe (mysterious wormhole beyond Pluto leading to another star system, and the suggestion that there are more wormholes leading to more systems). In Blue Planet, Earth suffers a catastrophe after sending the fir...

There's an argument to be made that Traveller needs two space combat systems. There are two sorts of engagements: there are close-range, cinematic fights ala Star Wars, where the PCs get into trouble while they're trying to loot a wrecked starship, or they're racing ahead of a System Defence Boat to...

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For simplicity's sake, I always assume containers are one dTon.

You could boost the costs of military-grade weapons and components, to make the disparity bigger (which has the nice side benefit of making military-grade weapons something the PCs need to steal/acquire through back channels/lust after, as opposed to just buying with petty cash). One of the biggest ...

Egad, even back in issue 55 I sounded tired...

Mass Effect did fun things with food and chirality.

When I was writing it, I think I assumed TL12 (Trav really needs a default assumed TL) and was a horrible cocktail of exotic gunk that really doesn't want to exist. I'd just reread Stross's A Tall Tail...

Yeah, dumping cargo won't affect Jump. That's deliberate - I wanted to keep calculations simple for players and Referee. A minelayer? You want to lay mines from a ship that's specifically noted as absurdly vulnerable to external damage? You want to put explosives in a cargo bay that takes damage whe...

A few questions for Gareth: Does the external framework take the volume (ie. fill up ship's displacement tonnage) regardless of whether there are modules bolted to it? Yes. Think of it as a big, empty cage bolted to the core hull. Does the hull at the core of such an arrangement need to be a legal ...

Good catch. This is what comes from writing linked adventures over multiple years. My apologies. Clearly, his trader was damaged and the necessary Aslan-made parts were unavailable on Drinax during Adventure 3. Now, with the PCs raiding Aslan shipping and the growing prosperity of Drinax, he finally...

Good catch. This is what comes from writing linked adventures over multiple years. My apologies. Clearly, his trader was damaged and the necessary Aslan-made parts were unavailable on Drinax during Adventure 3. Now, with the PCs raiding Aslan shipping and the growing prosperity of Drinax, he finally...

The easiest solution, if you're dead set on the "clueless barbarian goes to space" setup, is let the player choose from the skill package skills normally, but they only get to use those skills *after* the first adventure. Grimgr Skullsmasher can pick Gunnery (turret) during chargen, but he only work...

Sweep of Unhistory is in Alpha Complex Nights - it's the 'you're reckoned again and again in future versions of Alpha Complex' one.

Thank you - it sounds like a fun session. I'm very fond of that scenario - it's up there with Sweep of Unhistory in my list of missions that I got right.