Recent content by The Vrusk

I seem to recall from my college days with Megatraveller that there were several TL tiers of laser weapons including xasers (x-ray lasers) and grasers (gamma-ray lasers) which had powerful "Penetration" stats meaning they could punch through armor. I also seem to recall the xasers were TL 13...

Sweet! Just in time for my return to Traveller!

Nicely done! i personally, am kinda bored with the OTU. Some of the tech conceits grate on me, and the sheer size gets to me. Which is why I am always looking at other sci-fi systems such as d6 Star Wars (playing fringers or merchants), or Star Frontiers (despite its wonky setting, I like the...

Fun discussion. So what about fission-fragment drives? Those seem to match Star Frontiers' "atomic drives" and it loks like fuel consumption/reaction mass is quite small. Of course, they conveniently forget that the alien race determined to exterminate them could simply land a fission fragment...

Yeah, screw it. Just build ships for my Star Frontiers game with good old Traveller maneuver drives. I'll still keep the zero-G and difficult planetary landings as those are part of the flavor. And laser blasters and inertia screens, of course.

*sigh* there goes more of my spending money. :D

Yeah, I had the same figures. OK. So, Star Frontiers ships powered by 1G reaction drives that need to reach 1% lightspeed to jump FTL are quite silly. in-game, the fuel tankage for an "ion drive" is fairly immense - allowing for 30,000 units of fuel each providing a turn of 1G. They also use...

+1 for your reply from Obi-Wan. LOL.

So, quick question using High Guard with Companion rules ... How much fuel tankage would be required for a TL13 reaction drive (advanced: fuel efficient -20%) on a 600 ton ship to burn at 1G for 96 hours (to reach 1% lightspeed). My math skills suck and my calculations don't seem to work.

Just a thought in this model of Star Wars in Traveller. I for sure would use the Luck rules as found in Traveller Companion (pp. 4) to more closely emulate the science fantasy, sword-and-blaster flavor of Star Wars. There was a LOT of plot immunity going on.

Great book, by the way. Really a nice bunch of additions to hoary old Traveller. Quick question: In the Traveller Companion, page 21, there is a section called "Finalising the Traveller" and a subsection called "Traveller Skills" which says to chose two paired skills at level 1 and also a chart...

Falling back in love with Traveller after many years of an affair with Savage Worlds. So, i am daydreaming and musing of the day when things are normal and I can run convention games, and on top of the list is a rousing game of Azhanti High Lightning using MGT2 rules for "Incident V - Dead...

Cool to hear! I am still awaiting the OK from She Who Must Not Be Angered. *sigh*

Hey all, I was just looking over the GenCon list of gams and note there is only one (1) Traveller game. Either I missed it, or there are simply not enough games being run. C'mon folks, let's ramp it up here! If my wife approved the trip, I'll be sure to run something Trav.

Agreed with OP!