Flynn’s Guide to Alien Creation is very good.

There are also rules for creating robots and drones in Traveller 'Mindjammer'.

You might want to have a look at the Traveller 'Mindjammer' - it has chapters to develop and expand on the basic system building and culture (it does cover and deal with low tech).

All the gear is stated for Traveller, or references the CSC and Traveller MRB.

I can't say anything about Traveller and other older Mindjammer supplements sadly.

I have to say that this is "Modern" Traveller. It takes the game out and beyond the 1970's "retro" rut it had gotten into due to the 3rd Imperium setting.

I like it a terrific amount.

I'd second 'Mindjammer'.

Has pretty much what you're after covered.

Fallout is of course an 'Aftermath!' derived game (it really is). However, Legend would be fine as a system.

It's been around for years... this is just an improved method of manufacture.

I love the way the toilet is next to the drinks dispenser....

Why use skid pads when you could use "feet"? You don't need a skidding surface to skim to a halt if you have anti-grav.

Yes, but 6 knots per hour, minus 3 knots gives a result of 3 knots....

You're reading "/" as divide... it's used often by Mongoose (and in this context) as "per".

Nautical miles and standard miles are different... it's just a simple calculation though.

How about brain plasticity? After the first life (and char gen) everything is merely "experience". You just don't gain skills, just "Yeah, I've seen this before".

They had fun using the vehicle tables for hits and damage... They all whooped it up when "weapon/arm" got rolled. Nice, yeah, robots and creatures are fun by being the "free fire" things you can shoot without moral quibble. Wait for the 'Transhumanist' book where you realise that that was your gran...

Here's a thing. Let's assume your Adventurer discovers the skill of hypnosis. Somebody has to. Now, in your fantasy world you don't have a god of sleep called Hypnos, and your name is not Franz Mesmer so you can't call what you do either hypnosis or mesmerism. What name would you give to your newly...

Finally, consider making the ooze resistant to edged and pointed weapons. Although bludgeoning weapons inflict full damage, weapons that can perform the Bleed or Impale combat manoeuvres only inflict half normal damage. I'd actually go the other way... blunt weapons inflict less damage as the impac...

Condottiere wrote:Honor Harrington intersects Traveller, in that big investors get the best lands and titles, and I wonder if those with favourable skill sets got sponsored.

Works the same in 2300AD, corporate sponsorship really helps.

I don't know anyone who uses the 3rd Imperium OTU. That said, change the TL structure to do what you want out of the game. It's your game, it's designed to be altered (as log as you aren't using the 3rd Imperium, that is). It's just a framework. Wasn't someone doing an 'Eclipse Phase' to 'Traveller'...

In many ways I'd threat it as an elemental in that size dictates some characteristics. That said, it is a lump of protoplasm, it is not going to have high DEX, INT, CHA (APP), POW or anything other than sheer animal resistance to anything that affects its body. It's a tough, slow lump of animal prot...

I really hate to say it... but dump the 3rd Imperium. There is just too much arcane, esoteric baggage. Someone has already mentioned the obvious point that new players are most likely drawn in by seeing some "cool" movie, or reading some recent bestselling novel. Sadly the 3rd Imperium is not in any...