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My whole life i lived under the bootheel of a bunch of self-important assholes, who kept all the good tech to themselves; medicine, cybernetics, farming technology; the works. every time an Imperial ship passed through we'd beg for help. "sovereign system. can't interfere." Fine, i guess, rules are rules.

well, we finally got rid of those guys, i got to space, and tramp-traded around for a year, then i wanted to show my new friends my home. well, guess what was waiting for me: a god-damned imperial inspection. still a sovereign god-damned system! still doesn't belong to the Imperium! They only want to 'help' when it won't cost them anything and won't help anyone

so i need to go to navy office and write a formal complaint criticizing their entire doctrine i guess, where's the best place to do that? can i do it at any base, a subsector capital, a sector capital, or do i need to actually go all the way to Capital?

/uj we don't play again for a few more weeks, but i felt the need to vent in character....not sure if thats allowed?

are there any grim dark campaigns / sides to Traveller?

not looking for hardcore warhammer 40k grim dark, but maybe something just below that?

Today I ran some Traveller 2300 using MGT2. Despite the name it's a completely different SF franchise which runs now on the MGT2 system. I discovered several things I want to ask about, but I'm not sure of here is appropriate and there is now 2300 flair? Is there another reddit group?

Briefly my questions involve the tough trait and the discovery that myself and another chap have two different definitions of it in our printed box sets, which is bizarre to say the least, and how Damage Reduction is supposed to work. I guess these are MGT2 questions as well really???

So Ive never used encounter tables before so I'm not sure how they're going to work. Always happy for tips from GMs on how to use them.

But also... are there more?

I've got a handful of districts in the campaign's starting location and they all have their own flavour.

The city encounter table in MgTe2 is fine, if generic. I've already started adapting it for the world, elaborating on some entries, changing others. But I have an upper class "corporate" district, a lower class district and a middle class residential district. Are there tables out there that are more specific? It might give me different starting points and speed things along.

Hey all. Is there any document templates that you have found that fit your creative style for your campaign/adventure/general info documents? I am looking for something to use to standardize my stuff. Thanks.

We just finished character creation for my first traveller game. I got +1 in every stat except social. One other pc got so low every stat was a -1. Then that lucky sob get jack of all trades 2 by the end of generation. Some other pc also got jack at 1. I was an explorer for my 3 terms and did get a single point of jack. I did get vac suit and astrogation at 1.

After a tense altercation, the crew fights their wait out of the weird basement. As always, feel free to leave a comment and thank you for listening! Only four episodes remain.

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As the title says. Which sourcebooks are best to get an overall feel for the Charted Space setting if I wanted to introduce a new person to it?

Hi all,

I'm working on a research project concerning TTRPG mechanisms, and am looking to see if there are examples of any rpgs/systems that have been inspired by rules/mechanisms in Traveller (any edition).

Thanks all in advance!

Hey dudes, is anyone interested in forming up a Traveller gaming group? I'm currently with a pretty open schedule and after GMing the game a bunch, feel like trying to get it on the players side, but more I really wanted a group to match my style of gaming, maybe if another referee sees this we could both GM games so that nobody gets stuck behind the table, message me if you like the idea

What do your Travellers wear? Do they have more than one outfit? Personally, I usually imagine mine wearing 1970s scifi jumpsuits. Maybe with vests, like the cover of the old Star Frontiers books. But really, who knows what people will wear thousands of years from now? Maybe by then you will be able to change the colors or images or even the cut of your clothes with a click, or a thought. Maybe people will go back to togas. Probably every planet will be a bit different, especially since information doesn't travel instantaneously, so every fashion imaginable will be in style somewhere. What do you think? Do you think about it at all?

During the early and late 80s, there were a couple of games influenced by CT: Universe in 1981/82, and High Colonies in 1988/89.

These games carried a similar tone and style to the original, and presented an alternative to the changes newer editions of Traveller brought.

Fast forward twenty years or so and you have a new batch during the late 2000s, early 2010s: Thousand Suns in 2008, Diaspora in 2010, Parsec in 2012, and Cepheus Engine in 2016. These are much more grounded in CT (due to the OGL), and work more as variations of it, but still carry some of that aforementioned tone.

The question that arises is: What happened in those 20 years between 88 and 08? I've been going through some games from this period, and none really capture that CT feeling.

Maybe I'm missing a few obscure ones, so if anyone knows about a possible candidate, that'd be great

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This is the forth and final group of seven planet and system cards for the Rhylanor Subsector.

Risek, Somem, Tacaxeb, Vanejen and Vinorian is a S-type binary system with a Primary and a Secondary system.

Again the Rhylanor Subsector has a lot of old solar system information that makes no sense.

I will keep as close as I can to the wiki info but I modify unworkable systems into solar systems that work.

I am now over half way through detailing the Spinward Marches Sector. The Subsectors left are:

Cronor

Aramis

Querion

Vilis

Lunion

Mora

Glisten

So if anyone has any of the Subsectors above that they'd like detailed next let me know.

Also I am adding all new and updated systems to my Dropbox as they are finished.

Link to Dropbox post Drop Box for all my Planet Information and System Maps

I plan to eventually finish the whole Spinward Marches but it will take quite some time.

As people always ask I created these using a software program called Universe Sandbox.

As always feedback and corrections are welcome.