Recent content by NOLATrav

Maybe we just need a D66 table of “Why this shipment is Un/Available” that has plot hooks/fluff to sprinkle about. It doesn’t matter if every system can produce everything locally, sometimes Jethro’s thingamajig craps out and he needs shit shipped in. Or, what if the regularly scheduled big...

Peter was fairly active over at CotI, you could try searching for him there in order to contact him directly. But to be honest, I haven’t looked at CotI in ages. https://www.travellerrpg.com/

Supercool idea 👍🏼

Same here, exactly as described above by others

Just meant that people are easily consumed by the newest thing, a popular Believer may be very hot one week, forgotten the next.

Well Amazing people have built Type S Scouts and Firefly class ships out of Legos… I feel like building the DNR out of Legos is a multi-year project. And an expensive one. Probably a fool’s errand. Not being snarky. Thinking about VTTs. And printable USABLE maps at the table.

At the solar system level…

True but we shouldn’t have to wait for technology to catch up with our minds.

A ship like DNR needs to be presented as a pointcrawl, with geomorphs available to build PC level stuff. The geomorphs are available, we need to do the pointcrawl scale. Imagine if you had a pointcrawl map to use at starship combat time frame, that you could drill into with geomorphs to do...

Or social media. He’s big on the vid streams but no one on the ground actually thinks he’s the real guy. Factor in jump space time lags and freshest-of-the-week type TAS reports and he’s got a hand tied behind his back. If that’s what you want. If the player is cool and his character doesn’t...

A bit off topic but man, the laser/energy ranges in Traveller have always been crazy IMO.

“Gold Watch” is just fluff to give a sense of the differences between the various awards, all the identifiers are fluff. But feel free to add a real gold watch if one of your players makes that roll!

I’m leaning on energy generation IMTU

Early: TL-2 = 2 Disadvantages (TL6 Vacc Suit: Bulky, Limited LS) Basic: TL-1 = 1 Disadvantage (TL7 Vacc Suit: Limited LS) Standard: TL+0 = 0 Dis/Advantages (TL8 Vacc Suit) Advanced: TL+1 = 1 Advantage (TL9 Vacc Suit: Extended LS) Ultimate: TL+2 = 2 Advantages (TL10 Vacc Suit: Lightweight...

There’s some tables in T5 that give you results like “The Pursuits at Alell” or “The Assault on Efate” or what have you.