Recent content by NOLATrav

Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy is a terrific read and sadly little known.

This is a great idea for a free trader campaign- yoinked!

Love me some ProjectRho. Traveller ships don’t use heat sinks and IIRC none of the stealth options discuss venting or redirecting heat signatures. So IMTU I use Power Plant output as +DM for detection and tracking. None of this “not sure if it’s a space rock or a ship” BS. Doesn’t matter if...

My free trader just misjumped but thankfully not catastrophically. We have Basic sensors. I can’t see anything reliably beyond 50,000 km. Maybe a blip, but I know nothing about it. But I can see stars that are light-years away?…. And triangulate my position?…. Yep, sensor rules definitely...

Feats or Skill Levels? Proficiency Bonus or Characteristic DMs? Unified XP costs to level up or player-chosen Terms? I think this is definitely going to be 5e D&D in Third Imperium spaaaace….

Yeah, and I would say the PC’s Initiative score resets to that new position in the cadence. I know dynamic Initiative is not a thing in Mongoose but we use it all the time and it makes combat a lot more interesting IMO.

To the OP, a Dodge reaction could work, putting that PC in the line of fire but giving their DEX DM as negative modifier on the attacker’s to hit roll against the target (and probably the PC as well). The PC could also Dive for Cover, tackling or obscuring the intended target, which is a flat...

This is very easy to do. Every career Event, connection, etc, is given a place on the map, a relevant company, person, etc. Whether it’s Travellermap, or a home brew setting. Granted, a line in the rules suggesting such would be a great add.

Ok so I don’t really get the tonnage breakpoints either and quite frankly I don’t like the kludge of certain high tonnages being immune to Crits, getting addl Hull, etc. IMTU I am using these breakpoints: 100 - 1,000 tons: Operator Class. These ships are workable with small crews and...

It had to have been early-mid Classic Traveller. I remember reading somewhere that a stretched out cotton ball could be used on the table to represent the sand and yeah, same initial vector as the launching ship. IIRC, same time period that pieces of string were suggested as an aid to vector...

Also not an expert but your process seems legit and with such killer rolls the PCs deserve the victory. Just like that episode of The Expanse when the Roci takes out a ship’s power plant with a single rail gun shot. Awesome 😎 Mongoose has said out loud they wanted space combat to be quick and...

There was… I backed the Kickstarter and was super-psyched… The art? Fantastic and evocative. The quality? Very well done, cards feel great in the hand, additional components like tokens are well done. The rules? Completely different than Traveller, doesn’t feel like Traveller at all. Also a...

This. My very first ever home-brewed subsector (using The Traveller Book, 1985-ish) was a mash-up of all my favorite movies. There was a Blade Runner world, a Road Warrior world, a Brazil (Terry Gilliam) world, Outland in an asteroid belt… Hawk the Slayer and Lynch’s version of Arrakis made it...

Also just realized the updated Companion has rules of varying turn length in the chapter on vector-based space combat.

I’ve always really liked the Safari Ship, with its multi-environment tanks, lounge with floor-to-ceiling windows and the form-fitting launch. The original Classic version also had a collapsible balcony/veranda. Pretty unique and cool IMO.