Recent content by Morte

Whilst there's a lot of robot/AI/cyber/biotech stuff that can be worked into traveller, if that's really what interests a gamer they should at least think about running Transhuman Space instead.

Suddenly I need to go shopping. :) Actually, I'm instinctively a "single aimed shot" kind of guy. So what I really want is laser pointer, HUD link, and that kind of thing rather than sheer volume of fire. But I'll need to find a high tech world where we're not yet wanted criminals for that...

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Imagine that you have a basic pump shotgun, a skill of 2 with it and 8 dex, and the choice of shot/ball/HE/HEAP. You are going along as tech support on a commando raid to blow up a TL5 chemical weapons depot/bunker. This is a world where armour sees occasional military use, most often by guards...

In gaming Science Fiction is not normally a genre, it's a setting. Genre is war stories, romances, police procedurals, heist capers, magical fantasies etc and you can do all of those in science fiction settings. To be science fiction as a genre, rather than a setting, you really need to pose...

I the last arc of my current campaign, the "medic" killed more enemies than all but one of the combat guys. We were the sort to take and treat prisoners, and he botched every roll on them. He made a new character for the current arc. :wink:

"Checking that the stars are still there" -- Zhodani Core Expedition joke about the IIIS

Hmm. The "every ship" part sounds interesting, spreading data more like the old school usenet news file than email. Back in the pre-web pre-internet days there was a thing called "the news file" that bounced around connected institutions delivering/collecting fresh posts and merging with other...

There are 14 "Imperial Ursa worlds" with a substantial Ursa population in the Gateway domain book, and one of those is a TL9 HiPop in Ley sector. UREWR 0123 C887A859 Hi 505 IU G2 V The Ursa in the Kursis Charter adventure (their main showing in T20) were OK, a bit different but not terribly...

Say you're off in the wilds, somewhere like Theta Borealis with no big powers and not that much population. There's no XBoat setup, or imperial mail, or whatever. How do you keep in touch with your contacts when you and they are wandering around space and perhaps avoiding authority? There's go...

The best (i.e. only plausible) pirate attack I've ever suffered used a different kind of stealth. They hid a few armed men inside a carefully modified 1 dton cargo container and paid us to haul them as priority freight. They busted out in the middle of the night, donned vacc suits, and messed...

I think was specifically to make them use the speculative trade system, rather than to adventure as such. It tends to be hard to break even on passengers/freight unless you have the best ships (400 dton fattie) and best routes (shuttling back and forth around a hi-pop). But you can make a mint...

As an aside, people who are interested in doing exploration within OTU might like to look at GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, which set out to support that sort of gaming and made a pretty good job of it.

A fine choice. One nice thing for you is that much of RD is an "exclusion zone" between the 3I and the Aslan, where both sides agreed to stay out. So you can be further from authority than it seems by looking at the map. I've always liked to think that various OTU are analogous to certain...

Why do I have this sense of deja vu? Looking forward to it, Colin.