Recent content by actionman

This can be easily done, like with the Traveller Starter Set or some kind of free quickstart rules. That's where we come in. If Traveller players have a setting they're creating, then they can put it up on Drivethru or something and see how well it does, or even share it with selected beta...

It's a long way To the shop If you want a sausage roll

This is profoundly true, and it is a product of level based D20 type game mechanics, regardless of genre. Compare Traveller and 5e/D20. D20: characters' hit points scale with levels, creating characters who are effectively demigods who are greater than mortal men. This creates situations...

Well done! EDIT: That's a sincere compliment, it's no small thing to do that.

People can do what they want, but 5e is the second worst version of D&D, exceeded in horridness only by 4th edition D&D. We already had D20 Traveller in the 90's, and I don't know how successful that was in achieving goals like bringing D20 players into Traveller or generating revenue. IMO a...

It's especially funny when they all hate each other, but instantly close ranks whenever someone tells them to do their jobs.

Something else, consider what I'll call micro-elites: the people who reach a certain level in their organization, be it a workplace, a military, or a society, can feel entitled. "Well I've been working here for 27 years, blah blah blah, so I'll sleep on the job or screw around all day!" "I...

Ohhh, that part.

There's probably some kind of magistrate or official who interprets and enforces Imperial directives, probably the court of the subsector duke. That could be one of his responsibilities, or the responsibility of an official he appoints, and he would have a panel of advisors versed in the...

??? Which part was that?

Agreed. Imposing contemporary rl western liberal democratic values on a far future setting light years away from Earth is a design choice I vehemently reject.

We're probably talking about different things. My point was that the 3rd Imperium as a government has had a habit of war and state violence for more than 1000 years, from its beginning as the Sylean Federation to its current form. I recommend an excellent book, The Chief Culprit by Victor...

The start of the current polity.

A slight quibble: I wonder if it has more to do with economic privation and the attendant anxiety than the nature of the regime. If people live in a society in which their economic security is always at risk, they'll be highly motivated to get what they can at every opportunity. The only...

Well that was a bit Dark Imperium of you! But the 3rd Imperium's penchant for violence is well known. https://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/imperial-regional-cultures-and-books-detailing-them-continuation-thread.125107/post-989264 I know, especially since so many starports in the...