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Protagonists or Antagonists? :)

Well, as of today (2008/04/28) it's still not showing up as in stock at Amazon, but I've got an "expect time of arrive" listed as April, 30th. I'm guessing that if it's not in stock today, I won't be getting it on the 30th.

There are already "solo" games in Traveller. Generating characters Creating a subsector, or three, Building a starship Travelling about trading all can be...sort of... a game in an of itself. Write a supplement that makes one of the above *more* of a game and less of just a past time and...

I'd be interested if someone would like to run one. Eris

I thought it might be nice to have a thread where we can report that we've got our grubby little hands on Mongoose's Traveller. :) No, I haven't, yet. I'm still waiting for Amazon to get their copies and send me one of them. IAC, when someone *does* get a copy, how about posting here and make...

How about a "gone final/to the printers/we can't take it back now" pdf for a few $$?

Ah! So, you don't loop to Step 5, you have to stay in the same Specialization! Got it.

Here is my reformat of the Character Generation Checklist. I think this one makes more sense...at least, it did to me. Generation Checklist Basic character generation uses the following steps: 1. Roll characteristics and determine characteristic modifiers. 2. Choose a homeworld. 3. Choose...

I noticed that, too. There are still some of us who prefer to "work for a living"...right? :) Eris

Yes, but is that what was really intended? I struggled with the steps this weekend and decided that there were some errors in it and rewrote it to how I *thought* they meant it to be...things went smoother for me after that. If Mongoose tells us that the steps as written are the correct...

Allen, keep in mind that in CT there was virtually no character improvement (of skills or characteristics anyway) once the character left character generation and entered play. IIRC, I think you could pick out 1 skill and after 4 years of play improve it by one level. CT was (and is) based on...

Frankly, I'd make the career...Academic...and have Scholar handle the social sciences and Scientist handle the hard sciences. Student, I'd drop...student is a rank, not a career. Physician, doesn't fit in here...IMO. I'd make it a career totally of its own. You could have specialties like...

Most skill tasks use one skill + one characteristic for the DM to the 2d6 roll. So, for characteristic only tasks, I tend to name off *2* characteristics (often the same one like Str+Str, but sometimes it's Str+Dex or Str+End or whatever) for the DM to add to the 2d6. This makes the task...

Yep! Eris is my name and Eris is my nature. ;) Eris, The Heretic!

Or maybe he was sent on an "undercover" assignment to gather information on the pirates. The pirates don't have to be real pirates, either, they could be irregular forces operating outside the Imperial borders against non-Imperium interests. The non-Imperial state would call them pirates and...