What Traveller Setting are You Most Excited About
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I went with Stronty Dog too, since I also did my own game (with my brother) back in the day, based around the old GW Dredd and RQ rules.
I would probably end up playing more Dredd - it will just be nice to have a game out for one of 2000AD characters that has not been done before.
Besides anything that will allow me to put in my favourite Middenface McNulty quote ('If it was subtlety ye wanted, you should have hired Liberace!') is all good.
I would probably end up playing more Dredd - it will just be nice to have a game out for one of 2000AD characters that has not been done before.
Besides anything that will allow me to put in my favourite Middenface McNulty quote ('If it was subtlety ye wanted, you should have hired Liberace!') is all good.
dmccoy1693
Cosmic Mongoose
Loz said:
Any idea when SD is suppose to come out? Is it going to be a stand alone game or is it going to require the Traveller Main Book?
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
I went with Travellon 5.
I LOVE Traveller and I LOVE Babylon 5, so it would be the best of both worlds for me.
OTU is important too. I would like them to do sourcebooks on the different Milieu as well. Get a Rebellion Book, a 1200 book, a 1248 book, even a Milieu Zero book out for the new rules.
The Milieu books would also cover character generation differences for the various Milieus. So you could generate a Marine in Milieu 0 and be able to see the differences from her and one rolled up during the Rebellion. (And there should be differences)
I LOVE Traveller and I LOVE Babylon 5, so it would be the best of both worlds for me.
OTU is important too. I would like them to do sourcebooks on the different Milieu as well. Get a Rebellion Book, a 1200 book, a 1248 book, even a Milieu Zero book out for the new rules.
The Milieu books would also cover character generation differences for the various Milieus. So you could generate a Marine in Milieu 0 and be able to see the differences from her and one rolled up during the Rebellion. (And there should be differences)
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
...complete with broken UWPs? :lol: :twisted:RTT said:
Golan2072
Cosmic Mongoose
The main differences would be in the Event tables - each era should have appropriate events (Milieu 0 should mention ruined worlds, the Classic Era typically involves short border wars with the Zhodani, the Rebellion has faction-wars and TNE has Vampire Fleets and TEDs). Military services in wartime milieux (Rebellion and TNE) would possibly have harder survival rolls but easier promotion rolls.Rikki Tikki Traveller said:
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
That was my first thought as well, but I could see some changes in the skill tables too.
A Zhodani marine probably doesn't get Cutlass skill and a TNE:1248 Republic of Regina Scout might have different skills in the table than a Scout during Milieu Zero or even the Classic Era.
Not big changes maybe, but I could see Imperial Navy Officer skills NOT having Liaison in Milieu 0, but getting it later on, as an example, as the service moved from a true military to a decadent group ruled by the nobels (if that is your take).
I was envisioning something like the Citizens of the Imperium LBB, but with LOTS of different variations on the basic character careers.
A Zhodani marine probably doesn't get Cutlass skill and a TNE:1248 Republic of Regina Scout might have different skills in the table than a Scout during Milieu Zero or even the Classic Era.
Not big changes maybe, but I could see Imperial Navy Officer skills NOT having Liaison in Milieu 0, but getting it later on, as an example, as the service moved from a true military to a decadent group ruled by the nobels (if that is your take).
I was envisioning something like the Citizens of the Imperium LBB, but with LOTS of different variations on the basic character careers.
C. Chapman
Mongoose
Definitely Strontium Dog (yet another, "I created a SD rpg back in the day" voice). It's absolutely perfect as an rpg setting in every way possible.
cheers!
Colin
cheers!
Colin
Grendel_T_Troll said:
I will point out that all three 1248 books (so far, a fourth should be released shortly) and all virtually systemless. And what very few stats are present (UWPs mostly, plus a few UPPs) are all CT, and so should easily work with MGT.
So, if you want to run a 1248 campaign with MGT, all you have to do is buy the setting you want: Fourth Imperium, Spinward States, or (soon) Freedom League.
OTU. No interest in any of the others.
There should be no difference for chargen between a rebellion-era character and a classic-era character. The rebellion era is pretty short, so if rebellion-era stuff happened to you during chargen, then you're most likely not actually playing in the rebellion era but in the hard times era. ;~)
OK, I suppose one could add a single rebellion events table to use for one event at the end of chargen. Actually, that might be pretty cool. If it were made as a d66 table with, for example, a +1 to the tens die for military type characters, a -1 for characters in non-combatant careers (entertainer, citizen, scholar, noble) and modifiers to the ones doe based on Soc, it could still have events specific to certain types of careers or characters.
There should be no difference for chargen between a rebellion-era character and a classic-era character. The rebellion era is pretty short, so if rebellion-era stuff happened to you during chargen, then you're most likely not actually playing in the rebellion era but in the hard times era. ;~)
OK, I suppose one could add a single rebellion events table to use for one event at the end of chargen. Actually, that might be pretty cool. If it were made as a d66 table with, for example, a +1 to the tens die for military type characters, a -1 for characters in non-combatant careers (entertainer, citizen, scholar, noble) and modifiers to the ones doe based on Soc, it could still have events specific to certain types of careers or characters.
Travellon 5, although I mainly want it with High Guard stats so I can play out B5 squadron battles using Traveller rules.
I'm also somewhat interested in Starship Troopers, due to its infantry-heavy combat setting. Again, wargaming with Traveller rather than RP.
And a homebrew Traveller RP setting based on Firefly.
I'm also somewhat interested in Starship Troopers, due to its infantry-heavy combat setting. Again, wargaming with Traveller rather than RP.
And a homebrew Traveller RP setting based on Firefly.
