Recent content by Yatima

BTW, can I say that I love the logotype for Pioneer and the page layouts, the books look great. Congrats to Abby and the rest of the Mongoose team for creating such a great new identity for the product. The art direction looks really good too from what I've seen so far. J

Sure, but that's no reason to argue that Niven's works did not inspire the aliens we find in Traveller when they clearly did. We can't ban discussions of this because people lean into the connection too hard. If I have an issue with artistic representations of the Aslan, it's certainly not that...

Backed. Now to forget about it until next year 🫣

I'm not sure that's so. The Aslan and Kzinti are both felinoid, with warrior cultures that emphasise personal honour and a stark delineation between male and female roles in their cultures. In both cases, they did not discover the setting's star drive for themselves (the Aslan learning it from a...

That Podcast is simply brilliant, one of the best I have ever heard.

What's being argued is not that the Aslan are a direct lift of the Kzinti in all details, but that they are a primary inspiration for the Aslan. J

I think Larry Niven's Kzinti are the elephant in the room, here. Same can be said for his Pierson's Puppeteers as the archetype for the manipulative Hivers. I know this has been denied down the years, but it's incredible if these widely-known literary aliens did not influence these specific...

Sophonts can be broken down to provide the building blocks for food and nutrients...

I understand that a lot of the conversation around the development of 2300 is on a Facebook group? As someone who left Facebook behind years ago I would ask not only why 2300 does not have a distinct forum here, but also why the main conversation about the development of the line is not...

This Kickstarter (which I backed): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarcrawl/solarcrawl-osr-exploration-in-a-fantastic-space-age/description Is very adjacent to Pioneer, it's a system agnostic hex crawl that involves the exploration of a solar system over time. The game proceeds in two...

What I hadn't realised is that the DGP Task system was lifted and adapted for the first edition of 2300AD (Traveller: 2300AD, 1986) including uncertain tasks. The mechanic is adapted to 2300's 1D10 system, however. The DGP guys are actually credited in the Referee's book front matter:

Actually, looking back through my collection, Uncertain Tasks were not introduced in DGP's Traveller's Digest magazine issue 1 after all. If you look at the first four issues of the Traveller's Digest the task system is introduced gradually: Issue 1: The article 'Using Skills Effectively'...

This is my favourite rule too, and something I've not seen in other games in quite this form. Uncertain Tasks, like all of the Task system, first appeared in the Traveller's Digest by DGP, starting with an article on how to set task difficulty in a consistent way across skills and eventually...

Publisher of The Grenadier Magazine, taking that over from GDW: Source More Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grenadier_(magazine)

I'd love to see the Zhodani Z80 tank, also in the Mega Traveller materials. That is a bad-ass vehicle design!