Traveller Supers?

[TrippyHippy]

Why not?

Well, there are several Superhero game on the market right now, but a number of them are quite rules heavy system, and Traveller's lifepath chargen is a feature that could offer quite a different flavour? All Supers have a back story after all....

Superman was from outer space, lest us not forget, and other supers have a lot of sci-fi tropes that could fit into the Traveller umbrella with just a little tweaking.

So, again, why not?

 

[B_Steele]

I would LOVE to helm this idea. I am such a comic book freak that it is kinda sad, and I have copies of the old FASERIP Marvel, the silly "stones" version, and even the one-off Batman RPG on my shelves. Hell, I have had letters printed in one of my favourite comic books twice.

I think this would be an awesome idea...I cannot believe I haven't pitched it to Matthew before!

Thanks for the brain-jolt, mate!

Cheers,
Bry

 

[TrippyHippy]

That's alright. I am merely a lowly consumer looking for Mongoose to meet "all my gaming needs"! :wink:

I do think that Traveller could be really expanded outwards though, to cover all modern/sci-fi settings, and life-path generation is surely something that would fit supers gaming to a tee. If yo like building spaceships, then you'll also probably like building superpowers and gadgets and the like too.

 

[Twin Agate Dragons]

Why not just the mutation rules of Strontium Dog?

 

[TrippyHippy]

The rules would be easy enough to develop from such a similar basis - but having a separate Supers game would be something else.

Not everybody interested in Supers will want to play Strontium Dog, will they?

It could be done as a 'Supers' tool box supplement, or possibly a new setting for Traveller. My preference would be for the latter.

 

[Rex]

*Eyes a Notebook sitting on the desk* ......

As someone, that has (Owned and played), EVERY SuperHero RPG, ever made, it can be and has been done.

Scale is very important and it can get away from you within the framework of the Traveller Core Rules but with a few tweaks, and some understanding of Game Theory, it works.

But then, I was able to convert back and forth between Superworld, Villains and Vigilantes, Champions, Marvel Heroes, DC Heroes, FemForce, Godlike, Heroes Unlimited, Gurps Supers, Wegs DC Universe, and many many more then a few others off the top of my head, so making Traveller into a functional Super Hero game. Pretty simple if you are willing to write it out.

It's all just Cause and Effect in the end really.

~Rex

 

[TrippyHippy]

I await, then, with baited breath for SuperTraveller! to be announced any time soon......

:wink: 8)

 

[Rex]

Heh, why not. It scales out easily enough (Checks his note book), with a few tweaks at the upper end to keep it from bogging down due to having to throw buckets of dice around.....

I'm sure one of the really smart writer types at Mongoose could whip something up easily enough, just from what I've sculpted together on a dare (an old player bet me 250 bucks I couldn't do it, I spent that money on some Johnny Walker Blue), it's really not very hard.

You just need to know, what can and can not be done in the comics you are aiming to represent, and the rest is just Game Theory and dice rolling.

~Rex