Is this lower tech a problem / issue when trying to attract players to your Traveller Campaigns ? No, technology has never been the issue for Traveller games. In fact, if I took a few minutes to give a sketch about the nature of the TU, many players (particularly those with an interest to historica...

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This has the advantage of removing the highport from the immediate issue, but adds the complication of GeDeCo’s overall presence in system. Also makes GeDeCo at least complicit in helping ensure that indebted workers dont leave. The Imperium technically controls space - it doesn't control planets. ...

Most of those are valid concerns, but on the flip side, since when is a TL 12-15 Traveller starship a TL-6 U.S. Navy ship? From what I can tell, Traveller is very much based on a TL6 technology universe with a veneer of higher tech. It's possibly not even TL6, maybe TL5. Even by 1977 when Traveller...

I admit I've never understood the obsession that so much of the Traveller community appears to have with deckplans; so many people are always clamoring about them that I figured I was in the minority who don't have much use for them. In all the time I've run Traveller games ... I've never used them ...

So yeah, coal, oil and gas could still be hauled around the universe. Oil? Liquified gas? Sure. They're both far more valuable as industrial feedstocks than fuel. If transport fees are low enough, it might be economical enough to move it to use it as fuel, even. Plus they can be used to make coal i...

When a character dies, you should ask the remaining characters how they plan to fill in the gap because there likely is a gap in the group's skills. This is particularly easy if the gaming group is based around the idea of the crew of a small ship. If the person who died was the pilot, the character...

It sounds like the sort of problem that'd happen on "flexibly" (sloppily) run cargo haulers. They've had thousands of years (an unthinkably long time, honestly) to refine every small detail of space travel in Traveller. I think any dedicated bulk carrier in the TU would have thoroughly idiot-proofed...

Also asking because I'm considering it in the light of non 3rd imperium settings, too. I'd dump the SOC stat entirely if it were a non TI setting. Beyond my biases, there's a mechanical reason why having different SOC standings is bad: It's creating more specialized skills that players cannot get i...

It can go either way. Social Standing a complex subject and I don't actually support it being in Traveller at all; its many interpretations tell me how bad that stat is*. At the same time, I think it's more applicable to other societies than many people might think. Social Standing works and is appl...

It's a bit overpowered, but that's mostly because writers of RPG materials tend to have big problems understanding the limitations of cybernetics (and when it is pointed out to them, instead of fixing it they just shrug it of as "it's sci-fi"). As others have pointed out, you need to be pretty wary ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld is one of my very favorite novels, and lately I've been thinking about a Traveller adventure or mini-capaign set on a ringworld. Here's what I've got so far: I'm not sure if you're still following this thread since everything went all meta crazypants but looking over the ear...

This is great, except I can't actually generate workable skill stats for characters below 18 years in the rules. The kid is about 13 years, I'm thinking. Any suggestions? Traveller doesn't do a good job simulating people who aren't from the mid 20th century (and possibly later) America very well. I...

You keep missing out a key word - subsidised. The subsidised merchant and the subsidised liner must file a trade route due to the nature of the subsidy - but even then the Traveller Adventure shows a subsidised vessel can go off route for quite an extended time. Free traders are just that - free. T...

Banks might also demand a flight plan, with check-ins that can be communicated back to them, so ensure you're trustworthy. There's a note under the description of the Subsidized Merchant in TNE, which probably exists in other editions as well which I think is actually a universal rule of how this l...

Alternately, someone with computer skill could write the jump software. It's something I considered, but that's one of Traveller's slippery slopes, "the post-human automated society" question, which is why I put in a Navigator. It seems logical to me (and apparently you) that someone should just be...

He is only a few parts away from its completion and that's where the players come in. It'd probably flow better if the player(s) have some skill the prisoners need. I've always thought that it might be possible for a single prisoner to do this, it's likely you'd need at least a gang of prisoners. W...

If you're having a player generate a prisoner character, I am assuming you want to actually play out prison things. I think the first choice you need to make as a GM is how you intend to have the players get out of prison: Do you intend to have the players: 1) ... break out of the prison and escape ...

In Traveller a ton is 14 cubic meters (it's a cube about 2.41m on a side). This is ~500 cubic feet (a cube 7.93ft on a side). I'm not sure how much a "goat-sized" creature takes in volume, but with those numbers you should be able to figure it out. As opposed to transporting them, it depends on how....

How Do You (Logically) Prevent Players from Skipping Payments? Logically : Players shouldn't have these loan payments. It's ridiculous. No bank would authorize a loan to the likes of most players. It would be like walking into a modern bank and saying you want a loan of money to buy a modern contai...