Located on Equus (Spinward Marches 2417) Description: The Storm-rider Clan is a nomadic flotilla of reinforced barges and sleek hydrofoils, roaming Equus’s tempestuous seas to harvest migratory shoals and salvage storm-tossed wrecks. Their flagship, the Windkraken, is a fortified barge with a bustling deck-market where clans folk trade fish, salvaged tech, and woven seagrass goods. […]
Location: A grimy starport bar on a low-tech industrial world (Tech Level 6-8). Patron: Kael Draven, a wiry, middle-aged human with a cybernetic eye that flickers erratically. He wears a stained suit that once looked expensive, and his hands tremble slightly from stim withdrawal. Background: Kael was a mid-tier troubleshooter for a megacorp until he […]
While sipping a mug of locally brewed ale in a dimly lit tavern in Equus’ main starport, a grizzled spacer leans in close and mutters: “They say a derelict ship drifted into the system last month—some old scout vessel, half its hull chewed up like it ran afoul of something nasty out in there. The […]
The Basic Expert builds a Classic Traveller (1977) character. Of course the first two characters die immediately. I fondly remember my first character dying almost immediately. The Basic Expert does a good job of walking through the procedure. This is a good watch. “The Traveller game in all forms is owned by Mongoose Publishing. Copyright […]
Rumor: The Vanished HaulerSource: A weathered dockworker muttering over a cheap ale in a starport dive.Text: “Heard about the Stellar Wisp—old freighter, J-2 rig, went silent two systems out. Crew was hauling something hush-hush, maybe Navy, maybe corp. Last transmission cut off mid-sentence, talkin’ about a shadow on the scopes. Wreck-chasers say there’s salvage—or trouble—waiting […]
The Mongoose Traveller Central Supply Catalog has a bunch of useful items. In this Page 121 video, sub-dermal armor is highlighted.
The Basic Expert talks about the novel which heavily influenced Traveller. Its been decades since I last read, so its time to read it again.
Seth Skorkowsky has produced an extended video presentation of Mongoose Traveller, the newest edition of the classic game. This provides a very good overview for any new player. This is the introduction of a series of videos covering much of the material available from Mongoose.
Check out Traveller’s The Great Rift with Page 121. Page 121 does many RPG videos detailing some aspects of various games. Check him out.
Image by 506967 from pixabay. Back in the day, it was difficult to match Traveller characters with their equivalents in games like D&D. Some Referees looked for an equivalent of Level for Traveller to allow character advancement on a schedule. Starting my own Classic Traveller campaign forced me to consider this for the first […]