Recent content by Maxijohndoe

There is one really good reason to use robots in Traveller... Property damage instead of murder. Unlike say D&D where your party of adventures can slaughter monsters and take their stuff, before returning to sell their bloodstained loot and then celebrate at the tavern, Travellers might find...

In the context of the FFW the 3I has been on the receiving end of a generational program of influence, infiltration and espionage from the Zhodani. That introduces a set of risks that the 3I would be aware of but would be hard to mitigate against. The Cylon infiltration that allowed them to...

I think people don't realise how quickly meatbag pilots can be turned out. During WW2 around 1.5 million aircrew with around 500,000 pilots were trained, and more pilots died during training than were in service prior to the war. The USA had 450,000 aircrew in the pipeline for 1945 but cut...

This is what I think is the problem Traveller is now facing. Classic Traveller was based on the sci fi novels and movies of the 1950s to 1970s. Computers were primative, robots were like the one from Lost in Space, and everything was at a human scale with super high technology being treated...

While I enjoy these discussions I cannot understand why people think that the rules say you must do this... The rules allow you to build fighters that have a sophont pilot, an android pilot, a robotic fighter, or at the highest Tech Levels AI pilots. And as the Referee you can bend or break...

Same thing fighter pilots do today when they are not at war - train, train, sit around, do paperwork, sing You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin at the bar, attend workshops, train. One area where fighters would be really useful would be checking asteroid belts. A single patrol ship would take an age...

Reading through this discusion I am reminded of a certain meme.... Sir, this is a Wendys! To paraphrase... Folks, this is Traveller! Traveller is a game of Sophonts - Humans, Aslan, Vargr and others - travelling Chartered Space having adventures. It isn't about a future of AI and robots...

Armour and limiting the weapons the Travellers will face. And make the Law Levels of various planets count. A Traveller wearing a good vacc suit can take a couple of pistol rounds and not die. A Traveller wearing Combat Armour can take hits from heavier weapons. Anything with the AP trait is...

As was mentioned above mostly it comes down to TL and the battlefield environment. Until this century when electronics have become cheap and robust enough to have cameras and remote firing systems a lot of weapons required a human to open a hatch and fire them. Also for a long period - from...

A bit late to this party. There is a discussion on Traveller 5e on Traveller Reddit. My advice when it comes to any crowdfund campaign is do your research, specially when someone is asking for large sums of money and your trust. World's Largest RPG's That is all I will say.

This is where the game runs into reality and you need to decide what is more important to you. I am going off memory but I believe that when the first Traveller subsector maps were being created it was unknown in which direction the Milky Way Galaxy rotated. The designers had a 50/50 guess and...

Not in a Mongoose Publication that I am aware of but it goes way back into the age of Classic Traveller. This is an example from the wiki. 627-301 Blackhole

Recent observations of the voids between galatic clusters suggest that voids are strange places. Whether smaller light year wide voids could have similar properties hasn't been examined to my knowledge. Because of gravity voids tend to be really empty. There is far more mass outside of the...

Having created a huge number of solar systems using UWP, Mongoose and Wiki data all I can say is don't sweat it too much. The reality is that all our theories about exoplanets and exo solar systems get proven wrong on a regular basis. The theory that every planet around a Red Dwarf will be...

I don't like tooting my own horn but I have detailed hundreds of Traveller Systems. Drop Box link My aim is to eventually detail the entirety of the Spinward Marches on top of most of the Trojan Reach