Recent content by Maxijohndoe

The Fifth Frontier War gives many openings for Traveller Heists to work. Normally given the TLs and the way jumping between systems work stealing something of great value or importance means facing the full might of some pretty powerful opponents. But what if those opponents have even bigger...

Here I am trying to address the need to get more Referees willing to run Traveller games. Both attracting Referees and players is needed.

I have two groups: one of four players old enough to have played Traveller back in the 1980s, a another four completely new that I brought across from 5e. All enjoyed different aspects of the game. Some were really into trading and watching the credits roll in. Some like being spies and agents...

What I am suggesting is a worked example of each of the main parts of traveller so a Referee and therefore a player can easily follow the steps. The explorers pdf is just pieces taken from the books. In homework terms what I am suggesting is going through things step by step. Show your...

Before I start this is my POV and not a demand. Ok. There is a thread in the Traveller forum where people are debating how to get more people interested in playing Traveller. I gave it some thought and realised that attracting new players is useless without getting more people interested in...

It varies. To make a basic one star system probably takes me 45 minutes to 1.30 depending on the number of moons. Over time I have built up a huge library of names for planets so that helps. Atm I am updating a lot of my earliest work in the Spinward Marches. Fixing takes longer than making...

I bought it on the STEAM sales. It has a big learning curve but the basics are pretty easy to pick up. I have a full tutorial on Reddit going step-by-step with a few of my tricks. Universe Sandbox tutorial

I have created these for every system used in the Pirates of Drinax campaign. Reddit post re Drop Box Yah I can finally post links! The above is a bit out of date as I have done Dpres and most of Jewell as well. Once things get back to normal I'll finish the Spinward March systems as I have...

Ignoring the bun fight the way I see it Mongoose Publishing is doing fine as it is. They are clearly selling enough books and products and having successful kickstarters to pay the bills, buy their office building, and to start building up a war chest. I think a lot of players in the TTRPG...

I created the Asim System using the UWP data and the information from the Wiki using Universe Sandbox. With an F2 1.46 Solar Mass star at 2.01 AU Asim has an average temperature of 24.4 degrees with a range from -97.8 to 33.3 degrees.

Is there an actual Vargr dictionary anywhere? I searched but didn't find one. There was a Aslan dictionary of sorts on the Traveller Wiki and I used it to name my Aslan planets when I was making my System maps. I am now updating my work for the Spinward Marches and Regina has a few worlds...

One issue that may be putting people off making a Vargr Extents book is the system names are just random letters. Unlike the Aslan where someone made an effort to create a language the Vargr are probably too diverse to have a standard language. A handful of the systems across the border from...

Piracy, or Privateering as it is in this case, is both for profit and for politics. Drinax has Asim as a colony but it really doesn't have a huge range of goods to sell. Plus there are other pirate groups in the region operating out of Theev and of course the Oghma raiders. So you are a thief...

Military is different from civilian. In time of war all available resources will be diverted to production. For example the USA was producing more ships and aircraft a day than they produced in a year if you compare 1945 to 1920. Civilian ship construction is more constrained by the need to...

The best way to handle this is via role play and using social and other skills. You want to sell your ship and by a new one? First you need the mortgage holder's approval as you don't own the whole ship. Then you need to find a buyer for your ship who has the millions of Cr to pay for it...