Dungeon Crawling in Traveller

[TrippyHippy]

So, is there or has their been a supplement that creates a massive, sandbox setting that allows PCs to just wander around a hostile, enclosed labyrinth enclosure?

I’m thinking a bit like Alien - but more gonzo and varied. Something like the classic Starship Warden for Metamorphosis Alpha or maybe like a W40K-style Hiveworld.

Would there be an interest in such a supplement?

 

[Enaknomolos]

It's an oldy, but FASA's Fate of the Sky Raiders is a bit like this in terms of being a massive sandbox but enclosed. Different human groups rather than aliens and monsters, though.

In terms of interest in something like that but more gonzo, I'd definitely check out a preview if I saw it on Drive-Thru. More than that would depend on the details!

 

[Condottiere]

Have a huge collective of mashed together starships drop out of jumpspace in an occupied system.

Send in a squad of Imperium Marines to investigate.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Way back when the universe was still in its planke epoch our group played D&D.
One of the group was more of a sci fi fan than a fantasy fan and picked up a boxed set very similar to the D&D set we had, but it was black...

All of out early Traveller adventures were dungeon crawls around ancient installations, derelict ships, secret military bases, corporate HQ buildings etc.

We arrived via teleportation, and left the same way or dead.

 

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

For my D&D group that guy was me. But they absolutely refused to play Traveller even once.

 

[Ewan]

Have a huge collective of mashed together starships drop out of jumpspace in an occupied system.

Send in a squad of Imperium Marines to investigate.

A bit like Space Hulk then and I think that would be a good long term adventure

 

[Tom B]

A bit like Space Hulk then and I think that would be a good long term adventure

Or send the Travellers in after the marines don't come back.

 

[Arkathan]

Somebody on You Tube was posting videos with illustrations and narration of a similar scenario a few years ago. Dumped out of jump space in an empty hex, needing to find parts and fuel, but with huge clusters of ships and robot scavengers.

 

[Bense]

Give them a Dyson sphere to explore, like the one the Inheritors occupy in GURPS Alien Races 3.

Biggest. Dungeon. Evah!

 

[Arkathan]

Give them a Dyson sphere to explore, like the one the Inheritors occupy in GURPS Alien Races 3.

Biggest. Dungeon. Evah!

Telling Ringworld to hold their beer.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Actually, I wonder if you could convert the Element Class Cruiser box set into a massive 'Dungeon Crawl'. That is, use all the maps and blue prints to show a long abandoned craft, and then fill the lot with randomised critters?

 

[Condottiere]

Probably, an abandoned Azhanti in a deteriorating orbit around a gas giant.

 

[NOLATrav]

Shadows
Death Station
Research Station Gamma

 

[Bense]

The Kinunir
Last Flight of the Amuar
Annic Nova

Not exactly massive sandboxes, but definitely "dungeon crawls".

 

[ottarrus]

And as I understand it, the Sky Raiders Trilogy is still on Mongoose's calendar.
Fingers crossed, and all that....

 

[ottarrus]

So, is there or has their been a supplement that creates a massive, sandbox setting that allows PCs to just wander around a hostile, enclosed labyrinth enclosure?

I’m thinking a bit like Alien - but more gonzo and varied. Something like the classic Starship Warden for Metamorphosis Alpha or maybe like a W40K-style Hiveworld.

Would there be an interest in such a supplement?

Any ship is a tight claustrophobic dungeon to the poor schmuck PFC that has to help clear the SOB
The same goes for city fighting. It only takes one artillery barrage to make any given 6 square blocks in any city in the world into your own personal Stalingrad.
There are many Traveller ships that could fit the bill for an epic dungeon crawl with Gauss rifles. Element class and Azhanti High Lightning class cruisers are good choices. Now if you're looking for generation ships [a'la Metamorphosis Alpha], that's a little bit harder but DTRPG has starship geomorph maps in Traveller or miniature combat scales that'll do in a pinch.

 

[Arkathan]

Robert Pearce has an ebook of free geomorphs on his Yet Another Traveller Blog, too

 

[Condottiere]

Considering Skeleton Crew, a more traditional approach would be a buried starship.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Expedition to the barrier peaks...

 

[Condottiere]

Drow city.