Hard Times Redux

[kafka]

In the chaos and anarchy of the Rebellion there was an attempt to make Traveller even darker. This came in form of the Hard Times supplement.

It would seem today's world would make a perfect add-on and enhance Hard Times to give Mongoose Traveller more grit and grime.

Are there any plans for a Hard Times supplement (do you guys concur) or am I out to lunch in wanting a darker, gritter, noir Traveller to coexist with a lighter variant?

 

[Gamerguy]

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I've played "Hard Times" many times over the years. Maybe the best MegaTraveller release period.

You could always do an updated version "approved for use with Traveller" like some publications are doing.

Since Mongoose Traveller covers many gaming backgrounds, a ''Dark Traveller" background would be cool.

 

[alex_greene]

Or you could run it on a local level.

Don't set the thing on an Imperium - wide basis. Set it at sector, subsector or even local stellar cluster level. Have a small branch of some Main fall out of popularity as a new route opens up, drawing all the trade away.

Perhaps local trade is suffering because a major financial broker has gone bust, leaving a whole fleet of free traders under threat from being repo'ed because the administrator has foreclosed on their mortgages. This naturally affects all small package trade in the area, and economies begin to suffer.

Things like that.

 

[Jame Rowe]

I would be in favor of a version of this.