Traveller Wishlists for 2015
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TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
‘Divergent Tech’ might be something that could cover the Transhuman itch possibly too, as opposed to just that type of divergent tech…. You could call it ’Singularity’.
Another idea that occurs to me about the OTU Imperium setting is why not create a massive, fully comprehensive, encyclopaedic 300+ page hardback Library Data book, that covers absolutely every thing you could ever possibly want to know about the Third Imperium (but remaining systemless)? Anybody have any thoughts about that?
Another idea that occurs to me about the OTU Imperium setting is why not create a massive, fully comprehensive, encyclopaedic 300+ page hardback Library Data book, that covers absolutely every thing you could ever possibly want to know about the Third Imperium (but remaining systemless)? Anybody have any thoughts about that?
One thing above all else - the concluding episodes of The Pirates of Drinax.
Love what has been put out for this, a little sad it's not all put out yet.
... and I suppose by extension the 2nd on the list would be the "Book 11: Pirate".
Also a compilation of bigger/more legible deck plans of some sort
Love what has been put out for this, a little sad it's not all put out yet.
... and I suppose by extension the 2nd on the list would be the "Book 11: Pirate".
Also a compilation of bigger/more legible deck plans of some sort
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Anonymous
Guest
I like the idea that divergent tech covers trans human tech but I'd ask that it isn't in the flavour of some of the CSC with the flamers and disc rail guns.
I like the idea of a large library data book too, be cool to see it encompass things like ship to ship and star port to ship communications and protocol, the Third Imperium runs the star ports it'd be good to see the things that should be standardised across the 3I written down. PDF would be just fine for me to. Leave the trees alone! Indexed and searchable is good!
I like the idea of a large library data book too, be cool to see it encompass things like ship to ship and star port to ship communications and protocol, the Third Imperium runs the star ports it'd be good to see the things that should be standardised across the 3I written down. PDF would be just fine for me to. Leave the trees alone! Indexed and searchable is good!
alex_greene
Guest
Biotech could count as divergent tech.
Psitech, tachyon comms, FTL ship designs using technology other than Jump, semi-biological vessels, power sources such as ZPMs, interstellar and even intergalactic travel via Jumpgates, dimensional travel, time travel (I know that Book 4: Psion covered these, but there could be many different kinds of D-drive and T-drive, as well as many kinds of J-drive); each such form of technology would represent a divergence from the baseline Traveller technology.
Entire settings can be built around even one of these divergent technologies.
Psitech, tachyon comms, FTL ship designs using technology other than Jump, semi-biological vessels, power sources such as ZPMs, interstellar and even intergalactic travel via Jumpgates, dimensional travel, time travel (I know that Book 4: Psion covered these, but there could be many different kinds of D-drive and T-drive, as well as many kinds of J-drive); each such form of technology would represent a divergence from the baseline Traveller technology.
Entire settings can be built around even one of these divergent technologies.
Traveller: Dimension Doors, capturing the idea of stargates, sliding into parallel streams, wormholes, etc. There's plenty of sources and a wide variety of toolbox components to build campaigns around doors and gates, it'd be quite easy to build it into variant OTU or a new setting.
Droyne
Hivers
Virushi
And yes, a transhuman book for non OTU gaming.
Droyne
Hivers
Virushi
And yes, a transhuman book for non OTU gaming.
Mirja said:1) Alien Book Droyne
2) Book about the Third Imperium, not just a sector (The first chapters of Spinward marches were awesome, expand that to a 192 page book or something with maps and pictures of various places
3) Book about Fift Frontier War
These are enough, more will not be able to be written in 2015
Thanks again for giving us Traveller.
Ah, yes. And of course my favourite race in Traveller:
4) Alien Book: Vilani
Jeff Hopper
Mongoose
While discussing Mongoose Traveller on another forum, there has been a significant number of posts requesting a mecha supplement for the game. Might be worth looking into.
Well I am a fan of the Third Imperium and that is what Traveller is for me. I am sad to see so many versions of Traveller and even more are wanted, thouh I understand people want to see their favourite SF book series/movoie/TV show etc. But I wish that there were less books published for non-Third Imperium stuff.
Maybe you could get in touch with the guy who did [StarGrunt](http://www.groundzerogames.co.uk/) (who lives somewhere in the UK as I recall) and ask him if he's up for doing a 'Striker III' rule set. The Stargrunt rules are not radically dissimilar to Striker and arguably simpler and more playable.
He mostly does miniatures now, so he might well be up for some deal (assuming you haven't already discussed this) where he makes and flogs a range of Traveller-themed minis to go with the game.
Not that I'm angling for somebody to make a range of 15mm Aslan figures or anything.
He mostly does miniatures now, so he might well be up for some deal (assuming you haven't already discussed this) where he makes and flogs a range of Traveller-themed minis to go with the game.
Not that I'm angling for somebody to make a range of 15mm Aslan figures or anything.
Rick said:
While Jon does indeed produce Miniatures for Hammer's Slammers and Tomorrow's War, he has largely left rules development behind. John Treadway has written the Miniatures Rules for Hammer's Slammers and Ambush Alley in conjunction with Osprey produce Tomorrow's War.
I for one would love to see a Traveller Mod for Full Thrust that is based around the Adventure Scale Ships. (Power Projection is nice but to large scale to be useful)
For a ground game using another rules set I probably would try to adapt Gruntz to Traveller.
Rick
Mongoose
Sorry, I was trying to make the same point about Jon, but obviously not too clearly. 
I think Mongoose already have a very good platform for Striker III - namely the Bf:Evo/Starship Troopers rule set - I think it would be an excellent fit and a great addition to the Traveller line. Develop the rules in-house and talk to GZG for the miniatures, what's not to like?
I think Mongoose already have a very good platform for Striker III - namely the Bf:Evo/Starship Troopers rule set - I think it would be an excellent fit and a great addition to the Traveller line. Develop the rules in-house and talk to GZG for the miniatures, what's not to like?
Infojunky said:
Stargrunt has many similarities to Striker - I did a bit of tinkering around adapting it to work with Striker at one point (for a limited set of vehicle designs). With a bit of work you could graft a damage system compatible with Traveller/Striker onto the rule set and use vehicles designed with the Striker rules.
Even licensing the Stargrunt IP off the author and adapting it to be compatible with Traveller might well be as good as a Striker III product.
