Recent content by Empty Hex

If Mongoose wants to pull in a larger variety of players, I'd suggest old school. I'd really only recommend the "pin-up" approach if you're shooting for a narrow niche of action-sci-fi fans, but Traveller encompasses a lot more than that. On top of the already recommended Aliens, I'd also look...

Well, it depends on the nature of the fundamental state. A monarchy, especially a militaristic one, would seem to lend itself to a disintegration of the sort of local power centers that are commonplace in the OTU. An example would be the difference between, say, the medieval Muscovite state and...

I've toyed with a similar idea, but as discussed above, I find it just becomes too difficult to explain why the Imperium (or in MTU, the Federal Republic) doesn't just exert complete mastery over space. The week-jump seems appropriate to the 18-24 sector state whereas, to retain the flavor of...

Obviously, it depends on the setting. I would probably be a hell of a lot more interested in "Traveller: Dune" than an original setting, but I'd sooner check out an original setting than "Traveller: Cleopatra 2525." A "must buy" for me would be modular; something that's totally compatible with...

I was similarly flummoxed by that section so I came up with the following house rules for my campaign. To enter the Naval Academy, a character attempts to pass the admission roll for any one of the colleges. Alternately, a character can instead attempt a Social Standing 10+ roll to enter any...