Recent content by Grognardia

Artwork by the fantastic Ian Stead

(or, A Day in the Life of a Dreadnought Engineer) https://soren-boye-petersen.itch.io/a-very-large-ship-with-very-small-problems

The only true size for Aslan :)

I have written a few (hopefully humorous) short Traveller stories, with some of them based on published adventures. You can find them here: https://soren-boye-petersen.itch.io/

How are we doing for Riftbreaker #3?

I've seen some arguments for using just pure Pilot skill in space combat and not add the DEX DM or other augments. Still debating with myself if that's a good rule interpretation or not.

There are many ways to approach the Death Station :) https://soren-boye-petersen.itch.io/death-stations-and-how-to-avoid-them

No point in feeding the troll. He's just being deliberately obtuse now.

Why? He's correct. They're all different settings using more or less the same rules.

Reported for member conflict.

Traveller Companion has full rules for point buy. Which, granted, should be in the main rules. I always offer my players the choice.

There's a persistent idea in niche hobbies that you must abandon what makes you unique to attract new people. This rarely works. D&D didn't grow by ditching the Forgotten Realms. It kept its flagship setting while adding others. Mongoose seems to be doing exactly this with Charted Space...

And it always features the same suspects....

What pulled me in back then was exactly that international flavour. A world where French was the working language, German admirals set the tone and not every future had to orbit the USA. It felt fresh, lived-in and different. I loved it because it wasn’t built around American assumptions, like...

Worth remembering... Humans perfectly match the Kafers' ancient myth of the "Aach'an" - the legendary "smart barbarians" who destroyed Kafer civilization. To every Kafer, humans are literally the boogeyman from their childhood nightmares made real: destroyers of civilization, eaters of babies...