Recent content by GypsyComet

Dungeon crawls in Traveller? Shadows, Annic Nova, just about any of the Halloween adventures from Challenge, Research Station Gamma, at least one of the chapters of T4's Missions of State. They're out there. In Traveller adjacent media, there is one of the books by Jefferson Swycaffer, in...

A concern of mine is that we already have brand/edition confusion in Traveller. Having two more editions named so close together (T5 and soon, inevitably, "T5E") makes this worse.

High Guard 79 only, I think. As a side note, reading between the Book 2 lines implies that even 100 tons is skirting disaster. The letter drives are indexed at 1-to-1 to *200* ton hulls.

Removing the 100-dton jump-capable limit was intended to make travel both more affordable and more terrifying in the New Era. IIRC the hull minimum was previously attributed to jump physics issues. Too small an object simply can't maintain itself in the weird space of Jump. I think TNE took the...

As a race of agrarians the K'kree are, IMO, highly tolerant of insectivores unless their particular digestive processes make them smell like a carnivore. Then instinct takes over. This is the exemption the Ciruwar operate under.

You jest, but that was a different WW problem: 1st edition VtM's adventures were all aggressively railroaded. They called their game masters "Storytellers" unironically, it seems. That was *also* a different 90s problem: The juggernaut of MtG caused extreme behavioral changes in games...

That may be a translation issue. Prior editions of Traveller used ten hard points for bays and a variable number for spinals, while Mongoose requires much lower hard point assignment. If the Mongoose version of the Plankwell was designed to match the older version, quite a few of the hard points...

Both of whom have fought wars with the Imperium and/or its citizens. Wars are an efficient breeding ground for slurs (though not the only one, of course). According to some census grinding Don McKinney and Marc did, the Third Imperium and its Noble population are majority Human, but *just...

While the Aslan secret was published by DGP, it was sourced from Marc and GDW as one of the founding secrets of the Aslan. DGP was set up to reveal it, but didn't invent it. The Major vs Minor terms are discussed in some of the same sources, and are presented as in-universe terms translated from...

While they are handled separately for socio-political reasons, the Sword Worlders are just a sub-group of Terrans. Odd that the Jonkeereen are only in the Trailing Frontier. They're "native" to Deneb.

The Interstellar Wars were around 200 years, and the RoM another 500. Here on Earth, the last 700 years has seen about a 20x increase in population. Then add the Long Night, another 1700 years. That era came with some tech regression that may have led to higher birthrates if an agrarian surge...

This is, in fact, what the previous write up by DGP assumes. It even has a map. The Vilani are also documented as being cheerfully "exploratory" when it comes to other Human branches. GURPS tells us that they came very close to wiping out the Syleans as a pure sub-species via interbreeding...

A complete re-imagining of the Vilani would almost certainly be worse off for the setting. It works better, IMO, to assume that the Vilani around Vland are the living stereotypes of the Vilani ideal, but the farther they get from Vland, the more the rest of the universe asserts itself in their...

Vargr space has several regionally dominant languages, as well. Losing Vland at the level of "published" that map represents is what I meant. The data underlying the CT Atlas was the basis for everything in the Imperial Rectangle, and is not tied up in some DGP Exclusion. That said, the DGP...

Massilia should also be on this map as it was in Knightfall, albeit with an 1120 internal date. Hinterworlds is in that era, so it is more about the political changes than the date or source. One of the Julian sectors should also be there, from Challenge. The DGP exclusion also loses us Vland...