Recent content by Maxijohndoe

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

More like carrying a portable habitat, reactor and a 3D printer. And a small craft to fly between the ship and a planet if the ship can't land. Having two ships in tandem are better than having one, but it is possible that both ships get in trouble, or one ship cannot support the crew of both...

Obviously there is a wide range of opinions on this topic. In part this comes about from popular fiction like TV shows and movies which do not necessarily reflect how things would work in Traveller. Also in part due to the limitations in the materials that have been produced for Traveller over...

Something like that would probably be best in the form of a novel or short story. Way back at school I wrote a short story for a competition. It revolved around a desperate group of plotters storming a palace at night to usurp the occupant. Even with all their planning most of the plotters died...

Thinking about it one big difference between a ship on the ocean and a starship is, while a ship on the ocean without power will drift with the current and wind, a starship will keep travelling at the speed it was going when it lost power. I actually was looking at doing this in one of my...

Empires survived when the people moving against the Emperor want to replace them instead of tearing down the system and replacing it with something else. The Roman Empire was like this. Once the Republic fell to Octavian most uprising by Romans were people who wanted to be the next Emperor...

Probably the most realisitic lifeboats were from the Aliens movies. Basically a lifeboat needs to be able to sustain live long enough for rescue to be a possibility. In space that might be a really long time. So a couple of weeks won't be worth it. If you are in a system where you are likely...

I believe that the intention was to recreate the War of the Five Dynsasties or the War of the Kingdoms period in Chinese history. Given the horrific loss of life during and in the aftermath of the Twilight War a lot of 20th Century nations vanished. Note that over time the Maps have varied but...

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...