Recent content by kaleotter

Oh good. Getting tired with just how fiddly Traveller 5 is. Could be a good system under all of that terrible layout, but I don't have the patience for it.

So i rejiggered the ship into a 500 ton hull, which makes the design make a little more sense, and made one or two other small changes. One thing about mongoose traveller that irks me is that there is no system in the game for generating solar systems, just system mainworlds. I looked into...

10 weeks operation is not the same as 10 weeks travel. It would probably have been better to word that as 10 weeks system operation. I went with a large crew capacity as the vehicle was intended more for salvage companies requiring a full crew, or a small mercenary outfit looking for a boarding...

I'm thinking of keeping the whole thing pretty abstract, Just so that we don't have to deal with the ins and outs of working out the Dietary needs of the crew, but just so we can know how much we have when and if it becomes important (if the crew spend a long period of time where they cant get...

Ah, Yes. I see now. Thank you for the help :)

So I bought traveller to my play group the other day, and said I wanted to run *something* that wasnt another high fantasy romp through DnD. And they agreed. After some discussion, my group agreed that they'd like to do something like voyager or lost in space. However, I couldn't really find...

I think, in part that this is due to the fact that survival stories strike a chord in people. I used to on books focused on characters being stripped of home comforts and being forced to adapt to a new situation. I'm currently participating in a DND based survival campaign, but I get the...

I have been wanting to run a campaign in traveller for a while now, and have finally gotten a chance to. The first part of the campaign as I have it planned is a survival/escape story. In this game, a recent civil was has just ended, and the act of setting up a new democratic government has...