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I'll be there! This year's theme is Bwaps!

This makes a good case for having another characteristic; for lack of anything better to call it, call it Wisdom (WIS). I view them more-or-less as follows: INT represents your ability to recognize facts and put them together EDU represents the facts you have to hand, and knowledge of the...

Given what I see in university curricula, even at the postgraduate level, I wouldn't limit the chosen skill to "technical" skills - if the player wants his character to be an expert in Cultural Appropriation, I say "go for it" - I know plenty of people who have piled useless subjects higher and...

The July/August 2025 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download! This article provides more "advocate" material, following on from last issue; the featured article is Timothy Collinson's "Court Proceedings" house rules. He has also given us an adventure where the above rules...

There are three articles at Freelance Traveller about this: Traveller: Child's Play (https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/childsplay.html) Suffer Unto Me the Little Children (https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/children.html) (previously mentioned in this thread)...

The main problem is that this late in the cycle, I'm still short needed articles. Anything is desirable, for any section; I do specifically need at least two reviews (and I must ask that reviews of Gypsy Knights Games/Independence Games products NOT be submitted, at the request of the...

I'll have to take another look at both DTRPG and Mongoose's own store - my brain is currently insisting that the print and PDF prices have been The Same Blasted Amount...

What I would like to see henceforth - but don't know if it's economically viable from Mongoose's point of view: A "harder" separation of rules from setting. A setting book should, IMO, not contain any new rules, and a rulebook should not discuss setting-related matters. Adventures and Career...

The May/June 2025 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download! Dick the Butcher, in 2 Henry VI (IV.2), says "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". Timothy Collinson, on the other hand, says "Let's create some", and provides us with a Mongoose Traveller career for...

Actually, on a serious note, I was thinking that if one wanted to release Traveller: Jay's Random Setting, it might be an interesting idea to release something like Traveller Lite or make them Powered by Traveller. The Core Rulebook is really overkill if you want to release Pooh: The Second...

Yes, there's no question of that - but one has to consider whether those possible starport careers would make for good player-characters. That's what I'm not really seeing.

I think that if you limit colonization to "garden worlds", there will be two knock-on effects: ships will have to be bigger to support the higher-distance jump drives that will likely be viewed as more efficient (time is money, after all), and choke points with "rest stops" (fuel and basic...

The problem with this is that the Classic Other career was a bit of a "leftover" - essentially, anything that wasn't one of the other five careers (Army, Navy, Marines, Scouts, Merchants). Supplement 4 offered some Basic careers for specific roles, and later unofficial development generated both...

For what it's worth, I toss out two sources of possible ideas/inspiration: 1. Jason Barnabas, "Economy Passage", Freelance Traveller, November/December 2012 and January/February 2025, https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/transferbunk.html 2. Philip José Farmer, Dayworld...

That would be the Battle of Zhothello, then?