roundman43
Mongoose
I no we got the animal encounters book, but can we also have an traveller bestiar book maybe call it a thousand and one animal and monster book.
bestiar for traveller
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GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
The problem is one of reach. There are a few species spread about by the Ancients, the Vilani, or more recently, but that is a short list. Most life-bearing planets are going to have their own unique sets of critters.
nats
Banded Mongoose
Yes I have always wanted to see something like this as well, perhaps a book of animals and flora based on different planet types, sizes, temperatures etc. We have some standard ones that have been mentioned already in several places like Beaked Monkeys but I would love to see a good list of say 50-100 animals of all different types for quick use in adventures.
It was sort of done in the CT Animal Encounters supplement but they werent fleshed out enough for me - they were really just a load of stats that anyone could do. I am talking about fleshed out creatures with a decription about how they live. Would be very interesting supplement.
I was really hoping tht the Mongoose Animal Encounters would have provided this but it only provided a few samples from what I have heard (I havent got the book myself yet). It would have made MgT Animal Encounters so much more worth buying than presently where you just seem to get an expanded generation system and little else (and no animal speeds which really narks me).
It was sort of done in the CT Animal Encounters supplement but they werent fleshed out enough for me - they were really just a load of stats that anyone could do. I am talking about fleshed out creatures with a decription about how they live. Would be very interesting supplement.
I was really hoping tht the Mongoose Animal Encounters would have provided this but it only provided a few samples from what I have heard (I havent got the book myself yet). It would have made MgT Animal Encounters so much more worth buying than presently where you just seem to get an expanded generation system and little else (and no animal speeds which really narks me).
I myself would love a book like that it could even have a section on typical starship pets like from some of the old traveller magazines with illustrations. Then do a section on dangerous creatures from different world types, like heavy worlds, light worlds, etc etc. It could even almost be a very large book in the 3 or 4 hundred pages if it was like 1 creature a page with pic and everything (if I could draw I would even think of doing a book but well my art looks like a 5 years old that was drawing with dull crayons wearing a blindfold and dizzy).
Lord High Munchkin
Mongoose
Perhaps a short "Special Supplement" .pdf of "templates" that could be quickly added to the creatures from 'Animal Encounters'.
nats
Banded Mongoose
Lord High Munchkin said:
I dont buy PDFs myself so that would be no use to me. And I dont read PDFs if I can possibly help it as well. I like proper books. So I would prefer to see a revised copy of the animals book come out some time.
Animal Encounters was probably the most interesting MgT Traveller supplement for me, and the most disappointing. I think it was this supplement that stopped me buying any more full price Mongoose books.
I'm not sure a real bestiary is possible in Traveller, though it would be fun to have some "popular pets of the Spinward Marches" article.
Mongoose's Animal Encounters does have a set of 'templates' for adapting an animal to various UWP stats.
Unfortunately, the majority of the book is just the same random table with these templates applied to them. (To be fair, I've only examined a dozen or so tables, so it's possibly I just got incredibly unlucky.)
AE has a fantastically interesting system of generating and 'evolving' animals in its first few pages. I just wish they had used that system in the rest of the book. I know I've said this before, but I really feel like this is a combination of a few good S&P articles and a ton of tables with very little variation between them.
And of course the size|weight data is missing for all of the animals, as is the speed. No way to tell if you can outrun that hunter, or to judge how much meat that prey animal might net you in a survival situation (which comes up surprisingly often in old CT adventures...).
I guess I'm in with nats - I had high hopes for AE, and though the book shows a lot of creativity in some parts, the overall product is much less than it could have been.
Mongoose's Animal Encounters does have a set of 'templates' for adapting an animal to various UWP stats.
Unfortunately, the majority of the book is just the same random table with these templates applied to them. (To be fair, I've only examined a dozen or so tables, so it's possibly I just got incredibly unlucky.)
AE has a fantastically interesting system of generating and 'evolving' animals in its first few pages. I just wish they had used that system in the rest of the book. I know I've said this before, but I really feel like this is a combination of a few good S&P articles and a ton of tables with very little variation between them.
And of course the size|weight data is missing for all of the animals, as is the speed. No way to tell if you can outrun that hunter, or to judge how much meat that prey animal might net you in a survival situation (which comes up surprisingly often in old CT adventures...).
I guess I'm in with nats - I had high hopes for AE, and though the book shows a lot of creativity in some parts, the overall product is much less than it could have been.
