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Traveller is a game where you're not meant to be in a fair fight. And a lot of PC scheming goes into making any fight as one-sided as possible. This is a completely valid, rules-as-written way of playing that's a lot of fun. But, since you're asking, you don't have to play it that way at all...

I’m going to agree with a lot of posts here and say that it sounds amazing, and I love the quirky nature of the campaign. I have a few questions though. Could anyone who has the book please let me know: How are characters developed? Is there a trucker lifepath? Or are PCs the usual spies...

If you want to play more slice of life (and why wouldn't you?), then The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is really good. Alternatively, All Systems Red by Martha Wells (the first of the Murderbot series) has a really engaging protagonist and is loads of fun. Sorry, just...

What does "includes the compendium" mean? If I buy the Secrets of the Ancients campaign, do I get the core rules as well? And, to the extent that is the case, is that useable in other games I'm currently running, or do I have to start a new game to utilise it?

That's great. Exactly how I hoped it would work. Ah, that's a pity. I didn't realise it would be so difficult. For some reason I wasn't imagining drag and drop for the ship pages, but more a set of characters in a folder that I could simply duplicate. Like, if an adventure came with NPCs, each...

Any chance you could expand on what the content is? I put some questions above - but I'm particularly interested in High Guard, and whether it would let me drag ships into play and have them functional. For background, there's a tab on the character sheet that makes a starship a playable...

This is really helpful - thank you :) I hope so. If the ship sheets are available, it will be top of the list for me to buy because it would make ad-hoc space encounters so much easier.

I saw a graphic saying the Roll20 compendium would be available from 1st May. Has it been delayed? Also, I've never seen a Roll20 compendium. Does anyone know what the functionality will be? For example: Will the core rules allow some sort of guided interactive character generation /...

I see! That's really helpful! Thank you.

I've just looked on TravellerMap and there are so many worlds in the Great Rift that have nothing around them for many parsecs. Phobetor, for example seems remarkably isolated. Then I found "Hope Freeport," which is a trading hub selling (presumably) anything to anyone. But how can the buyers...

Is there anything in the old set that isn't in this one? Or is it all additional stuff?

It's been a while since I ran a Conan-inspired game. And it depends what part of the stories I'd want to highlight. But I think I'd be using Swords of the Serpentine - because, as well as doing really good sword and sorcery, the corruption mechanic means it's one of the few games that gets...

I actually quite like the fact that Hiver information is slightly different in different sources. Given who the Hivers are, and all.

The difficulty with the map as presented is that it's got a clear "edge of the world" aspect to it. The Imperium is completely surrounded by people who want to take its lunch - but who's putting pressure on the Zhodani? It's a lot easier when you only need to reinforce a border in one direction...

More plot ideas and low level stuff. There's a lot of big picture stuff describing the cold war nature of the islands. But I'd like to see some ideas of what the Travellers can get up to as they move through. For example, let's say they dock in Elysee. That seems like it might fall on a...