I like the Time Travellers idea.Here is my impromptu Top 10 suggestions. (Warning: some are a bit silly, but ideas might lead onto greater things.):
- Hold a FTL "Grand Prix" Racing challenge - could take weeks to reach the finish line.
- Hold a 50 x 52 Parsecs challenge - In 50 years, a simple Jump-1 ship can travel 50 x 52 = 2600 Parsecs. So map out 2,600 parsecs worth of new sectors (and adjust for the time it takes to refuel.)
- Hold a "Pimp your Yatch" competition, with all yatchs entered into the competition being displayed to the public in orbit around some Duke's homeworld.
- TAS Bingo. Hold a lottery where first five lottery tickets pulled out of a hat win free TAS membership. Offer anagathics and metabolic accelerators as runner up prizes.
- Release an adventure set in a Steampunk World with a Victorian 19th Century TL. Devise rules for Steampunk tech and world. (Idea inspired by Azukail's "100 Things to Find in a Steampunk Workshop.")
- Release an "Explorer's Edition" of the Aliens of Chartered Space volumes, especially suited for beginners who want to explore the possibility of being an Alien character but know next-to-nothing about alien races in Traveller's futuristic 'mythology'.
- Time Lords and other Time Travellers - devise optional rules for Time Travel within the Mongoose rule system.
- Release a foil covered limited-edition of the 1977 LBBs.
- Release an online electronic index covering content for all Mongoose Traveller publications.
- Aim to cut back on the number of errata being produced per publication release.
Likewise. That's why I change the Government codes to be:One of my pet peeves with charted space is the distances involved and travel between Hivers and the Spinward Marches or the K'kree to the Alsan amke it extremely difficult to use the major races of the setting in a campaign.
Sigh. I bought a bunch of fantasy figs on eBay a few years ago, and all of the paints and brushes and tools, and... discovered the skills and time I had forty years ago, are gone, now that I have the coin to purchase the toys I always wanted.If they were available both pre-painted and unpainted. My eyesight isn't good enough to paint My own miniatures, nor are My hands steady enough.
I have faced this every 5 years or so when I come back to miniature painting. Get a stand lamp with magnifier. It makes all the difference. Before that I felt like I was using the Force and hoping for the best with some brushstrokes. And the techniques and even the paint have moved on, so that it has never been this easy to get some really good results, way more than was possible in my younger days.Sigh. I bought a bunch of fantasy figs on eBay a few years ago, and all of the paints and brushes and tools, and... discovered the skills and time I had forty years ago, are gone, now that I have the coin to purchase the toys I always wanted.
You sir, are as mad as a Gallifreyan. My hat is off to you.My Setting secrets:
the whole of charted space is an experiment, beginning with the seeding of the region with psionic potential
Grandfather invented jump using reality engineering technology to facilitate faster transit for his offspring and not clog up his jump gate network
the Droyne understand the nature of living consciousness, their quantum personality pattern moves on after death, Droyne can re-incarnate if they will it or a coyne ritual dictates - they can also choose to move on
the empress wave is the result of a distant race using reality engineeering technology to further their schemes - hop drive becomes possible once it has passed
the Annic Nova crew returned to the Ziru Sirka with many secrets, one of which was the composite entity that would become the shadow emperor
the Terran experiments with AI during the ISW resulted in a race of machine intelligences that caused the long night in order to hide themselves, they are still around somewhere
the assassination of Strephon is a reality nexus due to his interaction with the empress wave
in the far far future travelling to different eras is possible to observe or to meddle
Yes. I already own The Travelle Book in dead tree and pdf on the CTCD.It's sold on the Mongoose Website
Hey everyone,
2027 marks Traveller's 50th birthday, and we have been knocking around some possible ideas on how to celebrate the event.
So... what would you all like to see?
There are discussions being had about travellermap.com and its longevity, starting with Mongoose possibly hosting it and so ensuring a degree of continuity should anything unfortunate happen. Beyond that, we are in wish list territory, but this is something that could very much bear looking at.Are we allowed to dream of moonshots? My dream would be to see a digital Traveller map, like travellermap.com, but built only with standard technology (html/js/css) and downloadable, so that it can endure the test of time.
I think 2300 AD system does this already. It uses an adapted Traveller UPP (Universal Planetary Profile) together with Stellar Coordinates. The Sol System is referenced as (0, 0, 0) and a distance formula calculation is provided. Haven't checked every star on the provided map, but some names ring a bell as obvious Milky Way names. See 2300 AD (Book 2) for details.What I would like and this would be a huge amount of work, is to take the data we already have for the Milky Way and transpose Traveller worlds upon it.
One thing that niggles at the back of my brain is that the map for Traveller is 2D and the Milky Way is 3D. I know why it was done like that and your brain just automatically adapts to the 2D version but still ...
So ...
What I would like and this would be a huge amount of work, is to take the data we already have for the Milky Way and transpose Traveller worlds upon it.
But let's be 100% honest about 2300AD's Stellar Map, or for that matter any 3D astronomical map intended for gaming...I think 2300 AD system does this already. It uses an adapted Traveller UPP (Universal Planetary Profile) together with Stellar Coordinates. The Sol System is referenced as (0, 0, 0) and a distance formula calculation is provided. Haven't checked every star on the provided map, but some names ring a bell as obvious Milky Way names. See 2300 AD (Book 2) for details.
There has been talk about transposing that 3D map onto the 2D Traveller subsector map(s) on Discord, which triggered a variety of suggestions, including writing a spreadsheet calculator, stacking subsector maps to create 3D effect and adjusting graphic brightness or star to suggest higher or lower locations. Could also use different colours to suggest height dimension levels.
My hope is for a triple-A (would settle for double-A) Traveller game that is a cross between equal parts Elite: Dangerous and Mass Effect...You know what the little kid inside me would really REALLY like from Traveller for its 50th Anniversary [I mean, besides a sequel to Agent of the Imperium]? The 15 year old kid inside me who had to go through evangelical fundamentalist picketers in front of the book store so I could spend my hard-earned fast food money on High Guard would really love to see a Triple A computer game faithfully set in the Charted Space milieu. Something done with the same love, respect and attention that Larian did with BG3.
That would do nicelyMy hope is for a triple-A (would settle for double-A) Traveller game that is a cross between equal parts Elite: Dangerous and Mass Effect...