Cluster Truck - Here in Time for the Holidays!

[CordwainerFish]

If the locals were rich enough, they'd be able to import some shiny new ships and drives from the Solomani, some 17 parsecs distant.

There's drives in Texarkana / And they're jumpy in Atlanta...

 

[tolcreator]

Is the idea in the campaign that every player has their own starship/rig/etc, or is it the regular assumed Traveller setup where all players are the crew of a single vessel?

 

[Condottiere]

Possible, until the rule book says only one player in the group gets the freebie starship, and the follow up benefits for the rest morph into ship shares.

 

[ProfGrizzlyJon]

Am getting some 5E vibes written into Cluster Truckers, or is it just me?
Perhaps do not play William Shatner's version of Space Truckin while reading

I had to

 

[actionman]

"Right turn, Clyde"

Galadrion gets it...

 

[Heretic]

Cluster Truck is definitely a great product, but I worry that younger players may not appreciate all the references.

Would something like an "Appendix N" be possible for subsequent printings? Naturally, Mongoose would have to list all the 70's trucker movies and TV shows but that shouldn't take up too much space - and MJD would have a chance to justify his views on Deep Purple vs Mott the Hoople.

 

[actionman]

Deep Purple vs Mott the Hoople

And the TML explodes in flames. Subsequent events are determined by the referee.

 

[J. L. Brown]

I had to

Crikey -- that is awful. Five minutes and seven seconds that I retroactively wish could have been replaced by Vogon poetry.

 

[CordwainerFish]

Crikey -- that is awful. Five minutes and seven seconds that I retroactively wish could have been replaced by Vogon poetry.

You knew it was a snake when you picked it up it was William Shatner when you clicked play.

 

[Absinthe]

I had to

Would this count as a trucker adventure?

 

[rinku]

Is the idea in the campaign that every player has their own starship/rig/etc, or is it the regular assumed Traveller setup where all players are the crew of a single vessel?

The campaign is based around (initially) no ship players. Working their way up from janky boats to bigger, not as janky boats and eventually alleged starships is the journey. Any ship shares you get in character creation are traded in as choice skill points, including the campaign special skill Trucker Lore (which can also be obtained instead of J-o-T. Gosh... something to use that fourth J-o-T advance on!)

But there's nothing stopping anyone running a different campaign using the book as a setting sourcebook either.

 

[rinku]

Technically, Big Trouble in Little China is a Trucking movie. Kurt Russel is a trucker, in any case.
Heck, the plot revolves around him getting deeper and deeper into trouble and weirdness, in order to get his truck back on the road, so that's good enough for me!

Totally a Cluster Truck sideplot/mission!

 

[Anstett]

The check is in the mail

 

[CordwainerFish]

Alien is a trucker movie all about why you should never stop to pick up a hitchhiker.

 

[rinku]

Ten-FOUR!

 

[rinku]

Which reminds me of this:

 

[rinku]

Cluster Truck is currently #1 on the DriveThruRPG best sellers!

 

[actionman]

Alien is a trucker movie all about why you should never stop to pick up a hitchhiker.

I don't think they ever talked about the bonus situation.