Travellers Needed! Central Supply Catalogue Updates

[MasterGwydion]

Thank you for pointing this out to me. I am sorry that I missed this and withdraw the suggestion.

No worries. I miss stuff all of the time.

 

[RYXlord]

Hab Modules and Tents are found in the core book but not the CSC, despite the CSC having options for them. It may be handy to have them in there to refer to.

 

[wintertraveller]

The section on Black Market and the listing of various categories of weapons restriction is somewhat different than Traveller Companion's publication of similar restriction categories. It might be useful to align these.

The Traveller Companion doesn't have "prohibited items" section, but does have spaceship weapons included in the categories.

The spaceship weapons categories of legality would be improved by also listing the category of weapon platform: turret, barbette, bay, spinal.

 

[Vormaerin]

That's the kind of thing that gets kind of iffy for me. Because that's very setting dependent and, theoretically, the Central Supply Catalogue is core rules. By default, Traveller has laser, sandcaster, and non nuclear missiles in turrets as what is legal for civilians. But the implications of the comments around the PD Lasers in that sector book is that the smaller states out there are much more restrictive, because their militaries are less able to laugh of full lasers and missiles.

And what needs to be on the black market is going to be different from world to world. So I would rather it be a coherent set of rules for how to set up and run black markets, with an "example" rather than anything that smacks of "rules" about what things are what legality.

But the the whole "properly separate Traveller Core Rules from Charted Space" is my particular windmill to tilt at. heh.

 

[wintertraveller]

That's the kind of thing that gets kind of iffy for me. Because that's very setting dependent and, theoretically, the Central Supply Catalogue is core rules. By default, Traveller has laser, sandcaster, and non nuclear missiles in turrets as what is legal for civilians. But the implications of the comments around the PD Lasers in that sector book is that the smaller states out there are much more restrictive, because their militaries are less able to laugh of full lasers and missiles.

And what needs to be on the black market is going to be different from world to world. So I would rather it be a coherent set of rules for how to set up and run black markets, with an "example" rather than anything that smacks of "rules" about what things are what legality.

But the the whole "properly separate Traveller Core Rules from Charted Space" is my particular windmill to tilt at. heh.

I understand what your saying in regards to making a distinction between the 3i/Charted Space setting and others, and I agree that clarity for when rules are presented vs campaign content is desirable.

In this case, the categories are already published but inconsistent across publications.

1. The base recommendation is to clarify the categories that have already been published.
2. I also suggest that weapon platform be included, as we do see Barbettes and Bays on ships that are not strictly military. These examples on the surface seem to break the guidance published in HG.
3. It's fair to further note that these categories are for 3i in the 1105 period if that is what is intended.

 

[Endie]

Arc Field weapons feel like they need a limited number of rounds of operation before they need recharged. I think that this would be helpful.

 

[MasterGwydion]

That's the kind of thing that gets kind of iffy for me. Because that's very setting dependent and, theoretically, the Central Supply Catalogue is core rules. By default, Traveller has laser, sandcaster, and non nuclear missiles in turrets as what is legal for civilians. But the implications of the comments around the PD Lasers in that sector book is that the smaller states out there are much more restrictive, because their militaries are less able to laugh of full lasers and missiles.

And what needs to be on the black market is going to be different from world to world. So I would rather it be a coherent set of rules for how to set up and run black markets, with an "example" rather than anything that smacks of "rules" about what things are what legality.

But the the whole "properly separate Traveller Core Rules from Charted Space" is my particular windmill to tilt at. heh.

I agree that they should be separated, but Mongoose trashes this in the CRB in the Law Level section. This means that no matter what universe you are in, all law level 3 worlds ban laser weapons even if they have never heard of laser weapons or their universe never invented them. They are still illegal. Mongoose does an extremely poor job of separating the system of Traveller from the many settings of Traveller.

 

[Perkanis83]

Saw the note about battle dress might I suggest bringing the power armour chapter into line with how battle dress and primitive power armour works as of the latest Jtas release, as in giving them slots primarily. Also please drop the exoskeleton in said chapter or re-write it, as it currently does not follow the norms that the other sets of armour in the chapter use and or perhaps introduce a new power armour at TL 12 so that we recive a more "smooth" progression of said power armours.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Singularity Act 2 adds some new Battle Dress options. They should be included in this update.

 

[MongooseBella]

Hello, everything above has been included in my list to check over. As I said before, I have read all the comments and have written them down but for one reason or another some of the changes may not go through. If there is anything else you guys notice please do let me know here

 

[Perkanis83]

looking forward to the finished product with anticipation

 

[Terry Mixon]

For prototypes, the Central Supply Catalogue has the cost increases being 5x for prototypes and 10x for early prototypes, but High Guard has it being +500% for prototypes, and +1000% for early prototypes. I recommend that the Central Supply Catalog coats change to match High Guard for consistency.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Now that the VH is out, I’ll drop these here to follow up on the DM. Apologies for the duplication.

The pricing on computers and transceivers is changed in the Vehicle Handbook Update 2026. They are included at no charge at TL+5 (or in some cases sooner) and have the discounts below from TL+1 to TL+4.




For fabricators, this was cut from the VH when the infrastructure section was pulled, but the ability of Superior fabricators to make collapsed materials should be rolled into the table in the CSC as it is a gap at present and this closes it.






There are the transceivers of 5+ million kilometers range that were pulled. Also very useful.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Will all of these changes inform the forthcoming revisions of High Guard and CSC?

It is becoming ridiculous not to have the rules be compatible, scale, and be usable in any of the books.

Also a lot of the stuff that has been cut is actually vitally important for example in CSC with regards to radios and the like.