Recent content by Corvus

I agree that SotA is a bad choice for a first adventure; it will be a huge amount of work to run, and requires a lot of background knowledge by both players and referee. A bad decision can easily end in a campaign-killing TPK. I do not like "you all meet in a bar" adventures for beginners...

This is exactly why why I would buy a book; I can easily do stats and descriptions myself. I cannot as easily do drawings and plans.

I agree with this; the expense required to maintain an interstellar organization, and the delays in communication, would make an interstellar rescue organization infeasible IMHO. The real Red Cross is criticized for administrative overhead and delays in response to emergencies on a single...

I like to incorporate logic puzzles, like the classic "Knight and Knave" ones, into my games. This is easy in fantasy games, where one can say a wizard created the puzzle for some unknowable purpose, but in Traveller I want the puzzles to have a purpose and fit into the setting. As well, the...

That is amazing Mithras. Can one use this for arbitrary orbits and trajectories?

Welcome aboard Claybor, feel free to ask any questions and let us know how your campaign goes. I've mentioned before that I think Beltstrike is an ideal adventure for beginning players. If you are going to run a campaign I advise you to run through the entire adventure once yourself; making...

Welcome aboard, ScottyG. I remarked earlier that Beltstrike is more suited to starting players than an established group, especially one with a ship. My players are natives of the system, and don't own a ship. They are using a modified 200 dton Free Trader, not the 400 dton Subsidised Merchant...

This I agree with. Skill levels are gained by training and experience, not innate talent. Also, the skill system has to handle everyday use of skills, not just exceptional geniuses. Innate talent is modeled by Stat bonuses in MgT, not by high skill levels. One problem with Medic skill at...

I try to avoid being an adversary to the players, you want them to cooperate with you. To that end, I make NPC the adversaries and authorities to the player characters. One piece of advice I have is to try to give the players what they want. I don't mean to hand out free rewards, but to find...

I just used the one from the adventure, but replace ship shares with Cr10000. Ships are rare in my campaign, and wouldn't fit in the adventure as written. I made sure the players created their characters together and that their characters knew each other, to avoid suspicion and conflict. The...

I was a player in a mercenary-based Traveller campaign set during the Fifth Frontier War. The GM was excellent and didn't hold anything back; player mortality was high and TPKs not unknown. The way he handled it was for every player to run multiple characters, typically 2 mercs and a...

I have played RPGs for many years, and one thing I have come to believe is that sandbox-style settings, where the players can do whatever they want, don't work. At first they sound attractive to players because they can do "anything", and attractive to referees because the players can drive the...

If people are interested, I can give examples of "how other people do their game mastering" from my Beltstrike campaign. My campaign is taking place in the Official Traveller Universe but not in the Third Imperium, so I had to override a few character generation rules. For example there are no...

I understand that. I am saying the question is biased, like asking whether I would prefer wealth or health, as if they are in some kind of conflict when the two actually promote each other. I prefer having entirely new settings with all the assumptions of the OTU. Make up anything you want...

It is quite possible to have an original setting in the Official Traveller Universe. The OTU includes tens of thousands of worlds over hundreds of millennia, only a few of which have been described in much detail. There is ample time and space for every GM to have their own setting; new aliens...