Travellers Needed! High Guard Updates

[Hardwire]

Ok, all this is fine an well, however this is not the thread for it. This is a thread on what minor changes need to be made, not a total rewrite of the Mongoose Traveller system.

If this was a discussion on Mongoose Traveller 3e and how to make the whole game better, that would call for introducing FF&S.

 

[Condottiere]

There is that chapter on EXOTIC TECHNOLOGY.

 

[Hardwire]

There is that chapter on EXOTIC TECHNOLOGY.

Yes and a minor tweak to Exotic Tech is ok, once again not a major rewrite of the traveller ship building/combat rules.

 

[RYXlord]

Perhaps a comment or a sidebar in the Power section regarding Jump Dimming? It's only mentioned in the write up of the Far Trader.

 

[Condottiere]

Custom or necessity?

Shops dim the lights to let customers know it's closing time.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Which setting - Third Imperium, T2300, Pioneer, Dark Conspiracy, the thousands of bespoke settings...

Mongoose Third Imperium, obviously.

Which setting - Third Imperium, T2300, Pioneer, Dark Conspiracy, the thousands of bespoke settings...

See above.

Traveller is so much more than just the Third Imperium setting...

but the trend has been throughout 2e to default to writing for the Imperium, even in the so called setting neutral books. This is what happened to CT - generic 1-3, Imperium mentioned 4-5, Imperium as default 6-8. Then MT dropped all pretense at being anything but a charted space setting rpg. TNE at least had the alternative technology chapters in FF&S, T4 and T5 back to the charted space role playing game.

We do need to bow to the inevitable. Mongoose is going to do Mongoose. The rest are alternate settings, and they aren't doing them. Rather than bemoaning that, we have to deal with that we have.

 

[agentwigggles]

M/R drive atomsphere speed table would be nifty.

Sidebar on using cargo bay as a launch bay. This is a somewhat common question.