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Thanks for the response. To answer your question, let me differentiate between two different ways of achieving characters with "heroic" combat abilities: 1. Heroic combat ability emerges organically from the character's abilities within the game system. For instance, in AD&D 1e, a 5th level...

Thanks, both of you.

Thanks very much for the feedback. So your sense is that, within the Traveller framework, skills should genuinely be left to represents years of experience rather than in some way adjusting the framework to provide more skills at an earlier age to folks like Luke. Where are the experience rules...

When I was referencing Captain Kirk, I didn't mean the JJ Abrams version of Kirk, I meant the Original Series version of Kirk. Kirk is supposed to be around 34 years old in The Original Series, meaning he's just finished his 4th term. Insofar as I can tell, Traveller simply precludes such a...

Hello! I've read here and there about folks using Traveller outside of the OTU to run games set in environments like Star Wars, Dune, or Flash Gordon. I am looking for a few pointers or ideas on how folks have tackled conversion in the past: 1. How did you (or would you) handle Luke...