Recent content by RogerMc

One idea I toy with is what happens when the PCs discover the Secret of the Ancients - surely a big enough deal to get you an all expenses paid J6 trip to Capital (with intervals similar to the DGP house campaign) and of course they are in the queue for the audience just behind Dulinor... Plus...

While as as old, old gamer I doubt I'll live long enough to see it roll on the third edition...

Also as recently as Feb 7 2025 Matt said: 'This is the custom 100-ton Modified Seeker, the Reftbreaker. At MCr52.375, it can make two jump-4 leaps while carrying a Pilot and Astrogator.' But the revised version of the ship in the revised book he's presumably pitching there doesn't actually do...

This is why I am less and less happy with Mongoose revising anything other than the core rulebooks and then expecting to be paid over again for them.

Wait I have to pay again for a revised version and one of the presumably very few things that actually got revised manages to still be wrong albeit for different reasons?

It is however more the implications for canon that concern me here If you can get Jump-8 or even J-7 out of an scoutship that costs 50 Mcr then for instance The Islands Cluster is far less isolated than depicted. So IMO there needs to be some other reasons in the rules and the setting to make...

Yes I do recall we already picked over this design two or three weeks ago and found it wanting....

Nope - Great Rift book 1 page 80 says 10 ton for J-drive and has Decreased Fuel x2 where Decreased Fuel uses 5% less fuel per advantage number i.e. 80 x 90% = 72dt. And it doesn't even have a stateroom but a 'cabin space': Or are we looking at different versions of the same design? FWIW my...

RE Borderland I would have preferred a full Trojan Reaches sector book with perhaps not so much detail but still something significant for every world as at that price it is a very niche product.

But The Traveller Adventure's whole point is that even a J-1 fat trader can just fit demountable or better collapsible fuel tanks and multi-jump through empty hexes. (Plus quite early on they get to hijack an actual far trader which makes the March Harrier redundant...) IMTU empty hex jumps...

Other than the obvious it being a different timeline but only after that thing we hate didn't happen in 1116 I can't see how a line edited by Loren Wiseman is not canon... In any case I see Traveller canon as rather like Doctor Who or Star Trek canon in that it is frequently added to by people...

Yes - shouldn't the J-drive be 15 tons rather than the 10 in the book (10% of hull for J-4 + 5 tons) - which throws the whole design out even if you allow the decreased fuel rule. Unfortunately with Mongoose if a ship design looks too good to be true it sometimes actually is.

FWIW I am myself less than enamored of the most recent MGT version of High Guard and the ship books following it as the piling on of more and more options mess for me with key features of Traveller. If for instance 'decreased fuel' is a thing then Great Rifts are meaningless as you can design a...

If compatible to you means you can convert most things on the fly in seconds using common sense then most of MGT 1 and 2 is compatible with CT. In that respect MGT is certainly more backwards compatible than current editions of RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu and Warhammer are with their...

Working on rather more detailed spreadsheet of MGT2 ships, careers, vehicles etc when I encountered this excellent index and immediately stopped as it is as it is clear I'll never be able to afford every Mongoose product and it will therefore never be complete... Should anyone with deeper...