I had an idea the other night to create a character based on Ford Prefect, of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm happy with the outcome, even though the process took a sharp turn toward the end and I wound up with secret agent Ford Prefect. The idea is that, per his Term 4 Event (Mishap 2, ce...

1. How does the missile fire work with Full Auto? Does this mean three attacks and nine missiles consumed? Correct. 2. The APC will use the gauss cannon to attack the missiles. What modifiers are relevant (e.g. missile speed)? After a quick review of the vehicle combat rules, I can't find anything ...

I'm looking for a class of ship suitable for use as a transport by a regiment-sized mercenary unit (3,000-5,000 soldiers), minimum capacity 1,000 passengers plus equipment. High Guard doesn't have anything that looks suitable.

Old School wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:48 pm

But even the diplomat or scientist in the group is going to have at least Vacc Suit 0 and Gun Combat 0, plus something useful to do on a starship.

Isn't that what the skill package is for?

In the Traveller game I'm in (or was, before the pandemic, and hopefully will be again eventually), all four PCs have at least some military experience. My character was career Navy, another PC was a career mercenary, a third was drafted into the Navy for three terms, and the last spent one term in ...

Yay, I'm actually playing Traveller! Our group has inherited an Empress Marava-class far trader, and while High Guard lists the design as including a fuel processor (40 tons/day), it doesn't show a fuel scoop. Is this an oversight, or does it mean that the Empress Marava can refuel from water source...

Old School wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2019 3:26 pm

Right. I doubt they'll be a 2nd edition Aslan sourcebook.

So what's Behind the Claw?

I'm reading the article on the Arhiyao clan in JTAS Vol. 3, and I feel like I'm missing big chunks of what the author was trying to say. Part of it is terminology, part of it is knowing nothing about Aslan history, culture, or politics. I gather that Behind the Claw will be Mongoose Traveller's Asla...

Unless you're building a ship-to-ship boarding craft? But that doesn't seem low profile to me. It's kind of obvious once you fly up alongside. Boarding space stations and spacecraft is definitely part of the mission profile. The stealthy part is the ship's use of the "superior stealth" hull option ...

I'm designing a special operations frigate: 2,500 tons, TL16, thrust 6, jump 4. Carries a marine company, primary mission is low-profile insertion and extraction of same. What should I arm her with? I'm thinking ion cannons, EMP torpedoes, and jumpbreaker missiles for disabling spacecraft, and conve...

Pyromancer wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:15 am

I googled "traveller blank subsector map".

So did I. How many pages deep was that?

I want to generate the Foreven Sector for my game, and I want the hex numbers to correspond to the hex numbers on travellermap.com. Every "blank" subsector map I can find has hex numbers already applied. Is there a source for actually blank (just the hex grid and nothing else) printable subsector ma...

Editing bookmarks really ought to be allowed, even if editing the content is otherwise verboten.

No, seriously. The core PDF is severely lacking in bookmarks, but I am inexplicably prevented from creating new ones. Who do I need to slap?

bklokis wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2019 8:55 pm

Not sure this counts as errata technically, but can we get a serious set of bookmarks?

Better yet, can we get the ability to create our own bookmarks?

One of my players (yes, holy crap, I'm running Traveller) wants to build a couple of engineering robots, and says he's gotten recommendations of Traveller ROBOTS by 13Mann. I'm not familiar with their material; is allowing this book worthwhile?

Can you be more specific? What's wrong with those systems?

Moppy wrote: ↑

Wed May 08, 2019 5:31 pm

size and "bloat" is fine so long as everything is useful, fun or and unqiue - the bigger the better in that case

i don't have any issue with the size of T5, just that I'm pretty certain it doesn't work as a playable game without a lot of fixing first

What is it that makes T5 unplayable?

Sigtrygg wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2019 1:22 pm

Mongoose can not decide if it wants Traveller to be the Third Imperium or Star Wars

What do you mean?

Moppy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:46 pm

I think I'm still banned from COTI because I have a gmail address. This results in me having a poorer opinion of their product and management than I would normally.

Why does having a gmail address get you banned?