Recent content by serene_muse

Ooo Sword Worlders *and* it makes mention of GT: Sword Worlds, an excellent book that also actually tried to update and make sense of RandomLOL UWPs in the Marches. Don't have a copy handy so I can't verify if the UWPs are old stock or reflect the updates, it was a shame to see that work ignored...

Golan's Dead Cities is cool. 8) Well the OP was mainly looking for reading material at first, but yeah big whoops! It's all about resource scarcity. There's a lot of other Soviet abandoned places too, trains, depots, cities, half-constructed areas and so on. Don't have a link handy tho...

T20 and 1248 had a range of that (and MJD/BITS stuff for T4). You may want to check out MJD's non-equipment writings. Most of it's either systemless or nearly so.

That is some fun stuff, tho a bit pulpy Mongoose Traveller has room for it. Maybe if you have some thoughts on more in this vein you could try submitting them to S&P, and if fleshed out enough, put them out on PDF for some spending money. A lot of S&P articles are submitted by gamers and the...

A recent Marc Miller interview touches upon T5. I've linked to the source and provided the full T5 quote so you can read in context. Take it as you will. I'm glad Marc Miller's finally actually speaking, just wish he'd do a bit more speaking or at least be more clear & consistent on the...

Odd, I thought the stock critique of Mongoose Traveller was that it had too much silly stuff "that doesn't fit My Traveller" or make realistic sense. Mongoose Traveller's nowhere near, oh GURPS Traveller's Far Trader, First In or Starports in terms of realism or detail so far. Can't win 'em all...

There's rule books and there's also supplements, they seem to be getting mixed together (both for CT and for MGT) a bit in this thread. A custom mix of CT seems to be good enough for you. Cool. My custom mix of CT is MGT Core. I am no fan of Action Point systems in Roleplaying Games and I'm...

Sure, anime can be very good at story and character arcs and can do the gritty yet powerful feel of Lone Wolf. I'd like to have some British illustration work or at least character design for it so it has that as a starting point but anime takes influences from all over since its father watching...

1977-1986 (Classic) Traveller 1996 - GDW closes down 1996-1998 Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games) 1998 - GURPS Traveller starts 2000 FFE starts reprinting Classic Traveller So there was a gap with no Traveller at all in print, but it was shorter than I remembered*, only a matter of months...

Also: http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/04/other-old-school-renaissances.html is good food for thought. While I am often in disagreement with James, he does a good job in presenting his views. While that was one reason for Swords & Wizardry (OD&D), Labyrinth Lord (B/X), Dark Dungeons (BECMI)...

Also QLI took to hosting the TML under its servers, lost most of the archives, had TML outages and pretty much (unintentionally) killed the TML. So some had feet on both places and stayed at CotI. Before then CotI was pretty much T20 with some other discussion and a lot of grog raeg was directed...

Great pics! Historical games tend not to generate a lot of frenzy but can be steady stuff. I mean to get into this as soon as Real Life permits, as VaS looks like a very good combination of easy of play & presentation. Also a lot easier to get ahold of than obscure b&w pamphlets which is the...

Whatever works for your game cool. For me I'd find Classic Traveller too all over the place and requiring houserules and/or slapping in 4+ books just to even get close to what I use from MGT core that I'd just use it instead. A simple task system instead of tons of DMs, more careers from these...

Mate, if you think T5 will be simpler than MGT or core CT (and CT had more than 5 rulebooks)...well I'd suggest you try the beta (or save your money and ask around, look for reviews). A cd full of rules chock full of charts, options and stuff. Before it's even published fully and before the...

Conan stole it from a earth-pig one night in a tavern! more including some other familiar characters a take on Frazetta