Recent content by KingMonkey

A top 3 is really tough, but I'll add a few that are specifically not listed here. The Risen Empire (2 books) by Scott Westerfeld The Golden Age (3 books) by John C. Wright Lensman (5-6 books) by E.E. "Doc" Smith Without other people listing so many great books there is no way I could keep it...

Hmm. I looked at it using Safari on a Mac and Firefox on WinXP. Maybe it's a problem with IE or maybe the machines are running out of memory since there are lots of big images? BTW, I'm not connected to that site in any way, just thought it had cool images.

I did a little searching for good art, specifically ships, and I found a treasure trove. There are so many images by so many artists I would be doing a disservice by posting a single image here. Even better, the site looks like it gets updated quite often. Check out...

I like the work of John Berkey. Among other things, he apparently did the cover art for the Nightshade Books' Hammers Slammers collections and the space opera The Dragon Never Sleeps. I found this image at http://wickedmoon.com/cards/johnberkey/8.jpg, but it is Copyright by John Berkey.

I can't believe I overlooked that one, right there on the first page of google results for "Traveller RPG". I guess I dove into traveller.wikia.com and forgot about the wikipedia. Thanks for the input everyone, this has definitely given me what I needed.

I think the intro in SM is quite good, especially considering that it is basically my Traveller background. Since my players are remote I cannot just hand them the book and say "read this". So unless I find something already out there, I'll probably end up doing a drastic paraphrase of what is...

I'm starting up a play by email game for some people who know nothing of Traveller or the OTU. My game will probably be placed in the Spinward Marches since I have a copy of that excellent work, but bringing the remote players up to speed on all things in the OTU as background might be a bit...