Besides Terran cigars, champagne, and chocolate, what other planets produce something really special? Vilani ale? Vland might have several things being a major home world. ideas I have: Basilisk eyes (from where... and wasn't there a basilisk in some Traveller bestiary?) ... dangerous like puffer fi...

... and, because you've already settled up and bought your new shiny with your recent payoff and still have credits left over, you saunter into the gift shop just to browse. What catches your eye enough you would spend a few of those destined-for-the-local-"fun"-spot credits? In other words, what co...

How do I play... only in my imaginations when I look at my shelf full of Traveller books (MGT1 & 2, the rest are in a box in the closet). *sigh*

My group cannot kick themselves off the d20 teat.

(I also do not follow links)

I know most of you don't know of any other die type, but the d88 could be useful, the d1010 is used in many games although I don't believe anyone calls it that.

However, I doubt anyone wants to use the d2020 table ever again.

Annatar Giftbringer wrote: ↑

Fri May 08, 2020 10:00 am

So, would any of the currently available ships (from High Guard or other sources) have been available back then, or would we need to design something new (old)?

We would need new designs.

Except the Imperium has had jump 5 ships for a couple of centuries and jump 6 couriers by the 600s. The novel really does upset the applecart of 'what you thought you knew about the OTU' Perhaps this is a good reason NOT to read it. Otherwise I might wonder why the Imperium's general TL in 1105 is ...

I think that a linked series of adventures based around Grand Admiral Arbellatra defeating the Out-World Coalition in the Second Frontier War and her going to Capital to defeat the current Barracks Emperor would make for an epic level campaign. The players could be a special unit of the military at ...

Thanks for the link to the older thread. I remember that one NOW.

I'll check Expedition to Zhodane, I had forgotten about that one.

How does the Imperium spy on the Zhos?

Any citizen keeping a mind shield up is probably detained by Zho authorities for a more thorough investigation.

Are there trained psionics that can keep a false ID in their surface thoughts? What are their options when found out?

It's not Hawaiian?

I just translate into English as if Kzinti. Like...

She acts like bird-prey dancing in rainfall.
His enemies stabbed multiple times. (<--- once translated this warrior gets LOTS of respect)

For EU/US readers note that what's missing is not just a university to do sport at, but the whole "professional" league for college sport that the US has that doesn't really exist in the most of the EU. We're not talking about attending university on current Terra, but in the far future where milli...

I believe you can pick Athletics as a background skill. Or you could home-rule that Athletics is available at University. If Profession can be studied at University you could invent Profession (Athlete). I'd keep the Profession specific skill limited to one sport per Profession choice. Not many ath...

Geir wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:59 am

So, one overly pedantic question: Is Dallia in District 268 still atmosphere 8 or is it back to B, which is what it was before somebody with bad eyesight got ahold of a bad PDF of the classic Supplement 3?

Is that what it takes to terraform a planet? A bureaucratic SNAFU?

So Luke was a bootlegger? That explains his good driving and flying.

I would expect allergies to be curable by interstellar TLs. I expect this, too. But how? What tech? Many worlds of the Spinward Marches are somewhat low on tech so those allergic treatments might be more expensive if available at all. But I suppose I could go along with all the shows and movies tha...

I agree with your assumption on cross-species relations - like today some worlds / cultures will be open and accepting, others virulently opposed, and the rest scattered across the continuum in between. Those feelings could be based on tradition / past history, cultural / religious biases, perceive...

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Sun Nov 10, 2019 12:01 pm

Aslan evolved from Earth cats...

This is false.

Humans shed a lot of dead skin into the air. Our lungs have been used to it for millenia (this word is not liked by the spell checker). But would alien species get sick from it? Or, could humans get sick, or have some other respiratory problem, from alien cast offs? These questions came to be when I...

I don’t know what an ACS is Edit: Oh ACS would be Adventure Class Ship. Sorry, that is a bit of T5 leakage... ACS predates T5 by a considerable margin. It's used by the Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration (FASA) for their product "Adventure Class Ships Vol. 1", published in 1981 hence C...

so what do you do if your players decide to spend time looking? do you go with it - or tell them there is nothing there and please get on with the plot? Pretty much. If they insist, after 1D6 weeks of searching have someone roll an Electronics (sensors) check, they find nothing (but then Ancient te...