NOLATrav
Emperor Mongoose
You might want to take at look at the MgT 1e career books, as well as the Spica Publishing career books for 1e. They had 2D Mishap tables and D66 Event tables. Great stuff that I’ve been using in my 2e games for ages.
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agentwigggles
Cosmic Mongoose
One of to many projected started as it's fun to start projects, is expanded event table that is assignment, rank and ten term particular. Just 180 tables per career. The tickling part is how to organize the damn thing.
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
When are we getting a book that guides referees in making their own setting, choosing from the vast array of options scattered throughout Traveller, T2300, High Guard, Vehicles, Robots, Central Supply Catalogue, Companion, the new Compendium...
1. how to adapt the Third Imperium
2. modifying T2300
3. using the Traveller rules for an other media sci fi setting (book, comic, TV series, film or even other rpg)
4. pitfalls to avoid designing a bespoke setting.
That sort of thing.
1. how to adapt the Third Imperium
2. modifying T2300
3. using the Traveller rules for an other media sci fi setting (book, comic, TV series, film or even other rpg)
4. pitfalls to avoid designing a bespoke setting.
That sort of thing.
ProfGrizzlyJon
Cosmic Mongoose
I’d see this as a Guide for the Travellers’ Aid Society; more than simply a license agreement, but a discussion about these very topics (1 & 2), with articles about 3 & 4.
I, for one, have always had lots of questions about the boundaries of Third Imperium vs TAS.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
One could more accurately say the Third Imperium is the default setting for the Traveller game. Doesn’t mean it’s the one everyone needs to use, but it’s always an option.
Jetrock
Banded Mongoose
2300 AD is an entirely different game but people are still mixed up because the 1st edition was called Traveller:2300 40 years ago, despite having totally different mechanics and game universe. A published book about Traveller rules for an other media sci fi setting runs into copyright issues, and isn't Companion basically a bunch of alternate settings/ways the universe works in non 3I settings?
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Ad[a/o]pt with caution.
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
It is no longer a completely different game. The Mongoose version of 2300 is a setting for the Traveller rules.
In point of fact the original T2300 game engine by GDW was based on the DGP task system for CT adapted to a d10, the mechanics of T2300 and MegaTraveller were very similar if you replaced the 2d resolution with d10 or vise versa.
Jetrock
Banded Mongoose
I started playing T2300 in 1987 when it was still called T2300, and know the origins of its rules set--at the time, the rules systems were very different from Traveller (MegaTraveller hadn't been published yet) and they were set in entirely different game universes; the DGP task system later became the basis of the MT rules, and the switch from 2d6 to D10 when it became the de facto "house system" for the latter days of GDW in 2nd ed T2K, Dark Conspiracy and TNE. If you're referring to T2300, a name the game hadn't used since the late 1980s, rather than 2300 AD, it's easy to assume you're not talking about current Mongoose 2300 AD, or, like me, you're an old grognard who still uses the name from 40 years ago. And for the non-grogs in the crowd, it's easy to assume that they're all set in the same game universe, when they aren't. I guess I'm questioning the need for a "make your own game universe" supplement when 40-50 years of practice show that most prefer to use existing settings, and those who do not don't really need a book to tell them how to roll their own?
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
The DGP task system was available from the first issue of Travellers Digest, and the GDW staff are on record saying they adapted it to T2300 and then MegaTraveller.
I remember thinking when it was announced that it would be set during the Terra vs Vilani late ISW period. it is telling that they adapted a new game engine for their new setting but confused everyone by calling it Traveller:2300. The change to 2300AD brought with it subtle and not so subtle changes.
I wonder how a MegaTraveller powered by the d10 T:2300 version of the DGP task system would have gone down with the fan base
You know I don't think I have ever given that a go...
I remember thinking when it was announced that it would be set during the Terra vs Vilani late ISW period. it is telling that they adapted a new game engine for their new setting but confused everyone by calling it Traveller:2300. The change to 2300AD brought with it subtle and not so subtle changes.
I wonder how a MegaTraveller powered by the d10 T:2300 version of the DGP task system would have gone down with the fan base
You know I don't think I have ever given that a go...
-Daniel-
Emperor Mongoose
Back when I first started to play, I would agree 100% that was true. But today? I sometimes feel it is just something we just yell into the wind to make our old hearts feel better.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
Yer a grognard, Harry!Back when I first started to play, I would agree 100% that was true. But today? I sometimes feel it is just something we just yell into the wind to make our old hearts feel better.
actionman
Emperor Mongoose
Correct. Traveller is Dumarest: The Roleplaying Game.
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Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
The Darrians must make lembas.
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
To a large extent yes, Marc has said as much in many interviews, but there is also a lot of influence from a couple of other notable sources - Foundation, Known Space...
