Who wants A Topic on my Drinax as A Player Campaign?

[JMISBEST]

Like I said earlier I'm bored of being A Traveller GM and am doing A Drinax Campaign as The Single Player

So before I do it when theirs a chance no-one will read it who wants A Topic covering me doing A Drinax Campaign as The Single Player, which is my first Campaign as A Player in A Decade?

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Do re-caps of it on YouTube.

 

[JMISBEST]

Generated A Few Events for my GM and then me and him took it in turns to GM them. That way I'm helping The/my GM learn the rules faster and hopefully start The Campaign soon. What do you think of how they went?

The 4 Events

The 2 Space 1

The 1st

Pirate

They get close to my Harrier. But when they find out that my characters A SS 15 Drinax Noble they chicken out and Jump out, lucky for them less then 4 seconds before my Particle Beam would have only just been within close range

The 2nd

Warship

It’s A 8,000 Ritchey Escort and officially its only flying The Flag but in truth it’s doing some kind of PR Stunt. Cos of its size and power I ignore it and as my characters A SS 15 Drinax Noble they ignore us

The 2 on Planet 1's

The 1st

A Starport 1

A Bored Clerk makes life difficult for me. But once she realizes that my characters A SS 15 Drinax Noble she begs my forgiveness(literally) and fast tracks my landing Visa to get me out of The Starport within less the 20 minutes rather then at least 3 hours

The 2nd

A Urban 1

A Curiosity Shop. I spend almost 4 Hours(from just after 12.00AM till just before 4.004PM) browsing till its time for A Very Early Tea(4.15PM as opposed to characters normal 5.30PM to 5.40PM) and like expected find nothing or at least nothing of interest or worth buying, but in the end my player was very surprised at how interesting doing the right sort of browsing in the right shop on the right planet can actually be

 

[JMISBEST]

1st update that due to a knock on the head I'd forgotten I'd done a few weeks back and typed up 3 days ago. Sorry. Also their's gonna be the 2nd and 3rd updates within minutes. All cos of my knock on the head. Apologies

Character creation

And

Using the super-human rules of rolling 4D6 and taking the highest 2 for all 6 stats

Her Race is Human, his Gender is Male, his Homeworld is The Floating Palace of Drinax and his starting age is 18
Str and End were both 2 5’s and A 3 or both 10 both -1 or both 9, Dex was 2 4’s, A 5 and A 1 or 9, Intelligence was 2 4’s, A 6 and A 2 or 10, Education was 2 2’s, A 6 and A 5 or 11 +1 or 12 and Social Scale was 2 6’s and 2 1’s or 12 +1 or 13

And

For my 5 Skills I take Carouse /0 or +1, Diplomat /0 or +2, Medic /0 or +2, Persuade /0 or +2 and Streetwise /0 or +1

Career

Critic type Connoisseur type Dilettante

And

To give me A Super-Character that can survive doing this solo The GM's letting me make 3 rolls every time and I choose the 1 that applies. Even with portfolios and you thought I was strange

Term 1

Due to already having several of the skills I get a automatic Art -Dancing /0 or +1 and Painting /0 or +2 and Deception /0 or +2

I survive, advance and with A 3 and A 5 on Specialist -Critic get Art -Dancing /1 or +2, Carouse /1 or +2 and Diplomat /1 or +3

The Event rolls A 23 then A double 6 or 12, so I get A Stipend

And

The GM makes, why I don't know, 2D3 or 4 Health Events and chooses the best. He ends up with A 66 then A 3rd 6 and my characters completely stopped aging

Term 2

I survive, advance and with A 6 on both Personnel Development and Service Skills and get Diplomat /2 or +4, Jack of All Trades /1 and +1 Int

And

The Event Rolls A 56, which’ll double my 1st portfolio item. Which in the end meant A Cr 100,000,000 Estate that nets me Cr 500,000 per month

Term 3

I survive, advance and with A 3 and A on Specialist -Critic I net Art -Dancing /2 or +3 and Diplomat /3 or +5

And

The events A 45, using The GM’s House Rule I choose Humanitarian, roll 2D6+1 get A 9 and get Languages -Aslan /1 or +3

Term 4

Survive, advance and with A 5 and A 6 on Service Skills nets Diplomat /4 or +6 and Persuade /2 or +4

And

The Events A 66, so I gain Rank 5

Term 5

Survive, advance and with A 4 and A 5 on Personnel Development net +2 Social Scale and Carouse /2 or +4

And

The Events A 35 then A 2 then A 5, so I net A Free Benefit that The GM makes A Portfolio Item that’s A 10+3 for A 10,000,000 Agricultural Estate that nets me Cr 50,000 a month

Term 6

Survive and A 5 on Advanced Education nets me Science -Social /1 or +3

And

The events A 42 then A Double 6, which nets me Cr 120,000

Term 7

Survive and A 1 on Advanced Education nets me Advocate /1 or +4

And

The events A 56, which nets me +1 End and Survival /1 or +2

Term 8

Survive, A 2 on Service Skills nets me Art -Dancing /3 or +4

And

The Events A 51, which nets me Trade -Art Dealer /1 or +3

Term 9

Survive but get kicked out after this term, and 1 on Advanced Education nets me Advocate /2 or +5 and A 6 on Mishap nets me Vacc Suit /1 or +2

And

The Events A 53 and I choose to get Languages -Kree /1 or +3

The 12 Benefits

Including the 2 I gained from Events my 5 Portfolio Items are 1 Hunting Estate worth Cr 100,000,000 that nets me Cr 500,000 per month, 1 Cr 25,000,000 Brandy Makers that net me Cr 187,500 per month, 1 Cr 25,000,000 Industrial Property that nets me Cr 125,000 per month, 1 Stipend worth Cr 10,000,000 that nets me Cr 75,000 per month and 1 Agricultural Estate worth Cr 10,000,000 that nets me Cr 50,000 a month
All in all those 5 Cr 10 Million to Cr 100 Million each properties will net me Cr 50,000 +Cr 75,000 +Cr 125,000 +Cr 187,000 +Cr 500,000 or Cr 937,000 per month, which is a vast sum. So all in all every good right guys

And

My other 9 Benefits are +2 Edu, +1 Int, 1 TL 15 Laser Rifle and 1 TL 15 Monoblade as well as Cr 4D6x1,000,000 or Cr 22,000,000 worth of Antique Artwork. All in all very good indeed, ain’t that right guys

Also

Using The GM’s house rules for Solo Skill Packages I net 2D2+1 or 5 Skills all at the same 1D2 or 2 and I choose/took/ended up with Broker /2 or +5, Gun Combat -Energy Rifles /2 or +3, Leadership /2 or +5, Melee -Blade /2 or +3 and Tactics -Naval /2 or +4

I also loot The Harriers Armory and storeroom which nets me 3 Snub Pistols, 3 Flak Jackets, 3 TL 11 Vacc Suits, 1 TL 12 Vacc Suit, 1 TL 11 Laser Rifle, 1 Sindallian Officers Cutlass, 1 Sindallian Officers Revolver with 5 spare clips of each type, 1 Breaching Gun, 1 Boarding Gun, 1 set of silver tableware, 1 1-ton crate of Deer Meat, 1 crate of 12 3-pint bottles of Mead and 1 crate that holds 200 boxes each of 200 cigarettes

I also sell my characters collection of Cr 22,000,000 worth of Antique Artwork to, hopefully, fully rebuild The Harrier, I forget what I rolled but it netted me +20% of The Cr 22,000,000 my Antique Artwork’s worth or Cr 24,200.000
With most of that Cr 24,000,000 of that I fully repair The Harrier and give it A 5-ton Medical Room at a cost of Cr 21,500,000 and 5 tons of my 29.75 ton cargo

All in all that leaves me with Cr 2,700,000 +Cr 120,000 or Cr 2,820,000, not to mention a tiny amount short of Cr 800,000 per month for at least a fair few months from my portfolio. So all in all every good right guys

For, including a far higher pay then normal, I hire 11 crew for The Harrier that are 3 Marines, 2 Gunners, 1 Medic, 1 back-up engineer, 1 back-up pilot, 1 engineering officer, 1 piloting officer and 1 1st officer that all have A +3 DM in their 5 key-skills and A +2 DM in their 3 none-key skills

Including repair and upkeep costs The Harrier and its 11 crew of 3 Marines, 2 Gunners, 1 Medic, 1 back-up engineer, 1 back-up pilot, 1 engineering officer, 1 piloting officer and 1 1st officer that all have A +3 DM in their 5 key-skills and A +1 DM in their 3 none-key skills cost me Cr 137,940 per month

 

[JMISBEST]

2nd update

After 1st 56 months in-game or 5 7 or 8 hour sessions of real-life

The Campaign

Months 1 to 4

Doing stuff on Wildeman

Namely with Klim Gobbo

So

I hear his request

I agree to get Glinnet Dour

I get her

I bring her to Wildeman

We open the vault

We are all disappointed to find only 2 Gin bottles

And

Even worse that’s only 1 Gin bottle each

So

Klim and Glinnet leave

But no me

Cos I realize the bases worth

All determined by rolling on A Table The GM’s tables for such things

It’s a fully functioning, well hidden and very large Class-B Starport that is on the main shipping lane, but by pure luck has been unknown and unused for 113 years

It has the capacity to build rare and/or custom Ships like The Drinaxian Harriers and Wyvern Class Commerce Raiders

It has A 1,000-ton building Capacity that Like I mention later it can build me ships up to 200 tons at half retail price. Ships up to 600 tons at -35% retail price, ships up to 900 tons at -15% of the retail price and 1,000 ton ships at -5% of the retail price

It also has The stolen Blueprints and Materials for Harrier Class Commerce Raiders and The stolen Blueprints but not The Materials for Wyvern Class Commerce Raiders

It has very luxurious fittings, furnishings and accommodation and its fully operational, just a little old and outdated

Like I said earlier it earns my character a minimum of least Cr 270,000 a month and more often then not at least Cr 300,000 a month

And

It has Hydrophonics Bays that can comfortably provide good quality food and drink sufficient to feed A Crew of up to 3,860 per month and will net my character A Surplus of 2D6+2 tons of Basic Consumables per month and 3D6+1 tons of Luxury Consumables per 14 months

Also

The GM Made 1 portfolio roll

It’s a good 1 too

The GM rolls A Double 6 then A 7

That should add +70% to 1 of my portfolio items values

Just a shame it goes to my, before the roll, lowest in value Portfolio

That means that it does add +70% to my lowest my portfolio items value

Also

Money stuff

Cr 799,060x4 or Cr 3,196,240 from my Portfolio

And

That gives my character Cr 6,016,240

Months 5 to 40

Doing a deal

Deals actually

Across several planets

All to aid Drinax

So

In the end its worth it

Well worth it indeed

It makes Drinax a lot stronger

It does take 4 months per planet though or 36 months in total

And

Here’s what Drinax gains

Basically Inurin and Sperle provide Food, Bryni provides ships, ship-yards and soldiers, Drinax, Neumann and Tech-World provide Tech, Falcon, Albe and Neuman provide workforce's for all the planets and we break Acrid and Argona free from The PRQ and they provide the materials and minerals

In the end Drinax gets the worlds of Inurin, Sperle, Bryni, Tech-World, Falcon, Albe, Neuman, Acrid and Argona and nets around 226.2 million part-time soldiers equipped at TL 8 to 12 and around 26.83 million full-time soldiers equipped at TL's 10 to 15 and nets a defensive Navy of 97 Ships that range from 100 tons to 1,000 tons to The Drinax Regional Forces and another 30 Ships into The Drinax Starguard and they all range from 200 tons to 700 tons

And

As well as all of that Bryni gives my character 1 captured 600 ton Corsair and 1 captured 400 ton Blockade Runner, which I add to my directly controlled ships

Also

Something I forgot last time

Claiming that Pirate Base gives me +2D3 or +6 Morale

It drops both super-powers Pirate Alias standings by -3D6 or -18 with The Aslan and -15 with The Imperium for faked crimes against Drinax

And

Reporting my Pirate Alias also boosts both Super-Powers Privateer Alias Standings by +2D4+1 or +8 each

Money stuff

Cr 1,149,060x36 or Cr 33,875,560 from my Portfolio

Cr 323,200x36 or Cr 10,342,400 from my Starbase

All in all that’s +Cr 44,227,960

And

All in all that gives my character Cr 50,234,200

Also

My Starbase nets me 13x36 or 468 tons of Basic Consumables and 3D6+3x2 or 32 tons of Basic Consumables

And

They’re getting sold next time

Also

The GM makes 2D6 or 10 portfolio rolls

The 1st lot of 4 are 3 4’s followed by 2’s to 5’s and 1 2 +7

The 2nd lot of 4 are 3 10’s followed by 1’s to 6’s and 1 12 then A 8

The GM very kindly rules that rolls 5 to 8 cancel out rolls 1 to 3

The last 2 are A 9 and A 5

The GM decides that they also cancel each other out

He also allows me to make A 1D6 roll with A 2-in-6 chance of adding +1D3x5 to 1 portfolio item

With A 1 then A 5 on the 2 1D6’s then A 2 on The 1D3 I add +10% to a portfolio items value

And

By pure luck it goes to my highest in value portfolio item

Months 41 to 56

Doing stuff

All of it trading

Unless attacked of course

All in the hope of funding A Big Ship

And

I’m not stopping till I can afford A New Ship

Months 1 to 2

Spend

Nothing as I’m selling my 468 tons of Basic Consumables and 3D6+3x2 or 32 tons of Luxury Consumables

Earned

A 18 for both lots of 234 tons of Basic Consumables nets me Cr 500 +35% x234 or Cr 850 x234 or Cr 198,400

And

A triple 6 or 22 for the 32 tons of Luxury Consumables nets me Cr 2,000 +55% x32 or Cr 3,100 x32 or Cr 99,200

Profit

Cr 297,600

The 4 Events

The 2 Space 1’s

Which for A Laugh are repeats of those from when I was teaching The GM how to be A GM

The 1st

Pirate

They get close to my Harrier. But when they find out that my characters A SS 15 Drinax Noble they chicken out and Jump out, lucky for them less then 4 seconds before my Particle Beam would have only just been within close range

The 2nd

Warship

It’s A 8,000 Ritchey Escort and officially its only flying The Flag but in truth it’s doing some kind of PR Stunt. Cos of its size and power I ignore it and as my characters A SS 15 Drinax Noble they ignore us

The 2 on A Planet

The 1st

A Starport 1

A Bored Clerk makes life difficult for me. But once she realizes that my characters A SS 15 Drinax Noble she begs my forgiveness(literally) and fast tracks my landing Visa to get me out of The Starport within less the 20 minutes rather then at least 3 hours
The 2nd

A Urban 1

A Curiosity Shop. I spend almost 4 Hours(from just after 12.00AM till just before 4.004PM) browsing till its time for A Very Early Tea(4.15PM as opposed to characters normal 5.30PM to 5.40PM) and like expected find nothing or at least nothing of interest or worth buying, but in the end my player was very surprised at how interesting doing the right sort of browsing in the right shop on the right planet can actually be
Month 3

Spend

The 1 trip

Thanks to A 9+4 or 13 Cr 5,000,000 -25% or Cr 3,750,000 on 5 tons of Radioactive’s

Earned

Thanks to A 14+4 or 18 Cr 5,000,000 +35% or Cr 6,750,000 for my 5 tons of Radioactive’s

Profit

This time

Cr 3,000,000

Total

Cr 3,297,600

Also

The makes 1D2 or 2 portfolio rolls

The 1st is A 11+6

The 2nd’s A 3+4

The GM rules the 1st cancels out the 2nd and adds me +1D2x10% in cash of my portfolios total worth

That’s A 4 which means 2 or 20% in cash of my portfolios total worth

That’s Cr 18,700,000 x2 or Cr 37,400,000

All in all that’s +Cr 40,697,400

And

That’s enough for A Decent 100 ton Scout, but I’ve got bigger and better

The events

The Space 1

Derelict Vessel

The GM’s Table determines it’s a 400 ton Subsided Merchant

More rolls on tables come up A Double 6 on 2D6 then A 11 on 2D6+2 then A 27 on 6D6+2

They means it’s cost Cr 227,650,000 divided by 11 rounded up Cr 23,000,000 Million +Cr 13.5 or Cr 36,500,000 to get back to fully operational status

A 3 on 1D6 then A 1 on 1D3 means it’ll take 3D6+1 or 12+1 or 13 months to fully repair, so I wait on Drinax and give The Crew 13 month’s fully paid shore leave

And

The GM decides that that raises my morale to 13x1D3 +2D6+2 or to 39 +8 +2 or 49

The Planet 1

Bar

I see it, go in to give it a try and although the beers not that good it is very good compared with most drinks in backwater parts of backwater planets in backwater systems

 

[JMISBEST]

3rd update

Its the last 1 for definitely at least 7 days and me and The GM hope at least 9 days

Mainly cos I'm off to A School Reunion that including travel times will take at least 2 days then A visit to see A Uncle in France that depending on how careful I am with my funds will hopefully last at least 6 days and definitely at least 4 days or at least 6 days and hopefully at least 8 days in all

And

The GM's got a very early Holiday that's a A Self-Catering Holiday that he says he hopes will last at least 7 days and will definitely last at least 5 days as well as at least 2 more days travelling their and back or definitely at least 7 days and hopefully at least 9 days in

So

Current state of Drinax at this time and after the end of 56 in-game months and 5 7 to 9 hour sessions

Planets

Drinax, Asim, Inurin, Sperle, Bryni, Tech-World, Falcon, Albe, Neuman, Acrid and Argona

Ships

The 90 ships of The Drinax Regional Forces that range from 100 tons to 1,000 tons

The 43 ships of The Drinax Starguard that range from 100 tons to 700 tons

The 4 ships of my fleet that range from 200 tons to 600 tons

Soldiers

Around 2,451,1000 part-time Soldiers and around 2,957,800 full-time Soldiers

 

[JMISBEST]

Sorry just discovered that my GM's even more old fashioned then I thought. So I've got to either stop these updates or stop RPG'ing with him. Either way as he's The GM if he says I can't post about it on this site I can't, Sorry