Traveller Release Schedule 2025

[ResslynHalvik]

Also, bet you a horn of mead the 'vik' in Skandersvik is the same as in 'viking'.

And Halvik

 

[IanBruntlett]

That's /sort of/ a merchant campaign. The players are not the merchants. The players are the crew of a merchant's ship. Yes, they get delegated some of the tasks. But they are not in charge, it's not their money, and they aren't making the the important decisions like where to go.

It's got some nice things you can use, but it's not what we are talking about.

Surely a lot of merchants learned their trade by working as crew for existing merchants?

 

[Enaknomolos]

Basically, after Singularity we are taking a step back from the epic galaxy-shattering events and focussing more on the big stakes/small people campaigns for a little while.

Cluster Truck is the first Mongoose campaign to have caught my attention, simply because I don't like the grand or epic scales in Traveller. So this strategy gets you at least one more potential customer anyway! Any 70's-styles silliness is just a bonus in my book too.

 

[Vormaerin]

Surely a lot of merchants learned their trade by working as crew for existing merchants?

Yes, but in the game, that's handled by your prior career. Skandersvik, Leviathan, and Last Flight of the Amuar are fine if you want to play "Away Team Adventures" on someone else's merchant ship.

If you want to actually *be* the tramp trader, there's The Traveller Adventure. Which is an excellent example, but it is also a bit long in the tooth, having been published in 1983 or thereabouts.