ResslynHalvik
Cosmic Mongoose
And Halvik
Traveller Release Schedule 2025
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IanBruntlett
Emperor Mongoose
Surely a lot of merchants learned their trade by working as crew for existing merchants?
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Enaknomolos
Banded Mongoose
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.
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.
I like this. There's something to be said for campaigns that aren't going to change the galaxy, or heck, even the subsector. BJ and the Bear never saved the President from a secret cabal. still fun, though. and let's face it the galaxy is huge enough that you can spend your entire career in one world without running out of things to do.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
You just aren't reading the right fanfic.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Just saving him from Cain would be enough.
Funnily enough, we have have another campaign coming up that does exactly this!
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
You can always adapt Judge Dredd.
DeepSpaceAdventures
Banded Mongoose
New edition of the old Tarsus box?
That has been something we have floated here, actually, but this is another re-imagining...
DeepSpaceAdventures
Banded Mongoose
Hmm, then maybe Beltstrike or Prison Planet?
Fluffy Bunny Feet
Emperor Mongoose
The 1970s TV show Movin' On. Two truckers driving their "big rig" around the country delivering loads and doing good deeds wherever they go. They didn't make much money on their good deeds but they could have.
Even the Planet of the Apes TV show. They rarely ended off much better off but they left things behind them better than they found them.
Firefly is of course the classic. Look at Jaynestown. He had a failed robbery years before and returned to find himself a hero. Didn't make any money, made an enemy and became the accidental hero.
The failure of Serenity (besides not being Firefly: Serenity) may well have been the major scale of the adventure which was unlike the TV show. Also killing off two of the characters being a downer hurt.
You could easily turn Prison Planet into a full campaign, but I would be surprised if that was popular enough a subject to do so. Beltstrike is certainly a single system, but I am not certain I'd call that a single world campaign. I suppose you could call an Asteroid Belt a single world.
Matt mentioned that Nomads of the World Ocean was up for revisiting and he had figured out an idea for doing so. Later made a post that hinted at a world ocean story getting moved up the release chart ahead of some other stuff, which probably refers to that. Of course, as written it is just a (largely unplayable, but really cool) adventure. It could also be turned into an entire campaign in the same way Twilight's Peak got turned into Mysteries of the Ancients, since it needs a lot of rework either way.
My own home campaign has spent its entire 5 month (realtime) run to date in the same system. The players do have a J1 ship but have only used it to follow up on work and follow story arcs within the system they are all from. Despite me giving them opportunities and story arcs outside of the system they so far havent followed up on any of them.
Seffix
Emperor Mongoose
Player got a Lab ship at the start of the first adventure. We just finished adventure 7, and they haven't even visited the starship. The pinnace has not left the pad in the downport, but one of them is using it as her apartment.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
The Peedo Ghost rides again! *facepalm*
