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Showing posts with label Traveller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traveller. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Random Encounters and Events for that New Colony

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Continuing with my ruminations on colony /settlement formation and the adventure potential of the same, I present another new random encount...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Guest Post - The Tale of Diluc Mack, Traveller

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Today's post was written by my son, telling the tale of the Traveller I described in this post .  Diluc was born in the slums of his hom...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Take to the Skies! Personal Flight Gear

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 " Break out the Rocket Belts, Boys!" Dr. Benton Quest, in The Invisible Monster That's probably my favorite quote ...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

More About High Level Play - Paths to Get There

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From the Traveller Book, Introduction chapter, “Adventuring in Traveller” Traveller is a set of detailed rules covering how the universe o...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Alternate Random Encounter Tables for Traveller

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Somebody's about to have a Random Encounter. The Traveller Book makes it plain that Referees can and should create their own custom enc...
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Monday, December 8, 2025

More Patron Saints in the Far Future

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It is the season of Advent once again, and I have a new group of stories to share about Saints of Holtzmann's Corridor.  for Diplomats: ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Another Benefit of playing a Noble PC

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I realize that I have overlooked something about what it means to play a Noble PC in Traveller. Having high status confers more benefits tha...
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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Benefits of playing a Noble PC

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For years as a Referee I beat my head against a metaphorical and game-mechanical wall trying to resolve a conundrum. Traveller allows PCs to...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Set the Heads'l! It's the Sailors Career

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This time out we are looking at the Sailor career from COTI.  Sailors: Members of the Nautical Force Command (the wet navy) of a world. Nav...
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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Time and Traveller

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No, this post is not about time-travel. Time is a scarce resource. The passage of time matters, as it affects all of the above in-game mec...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Take to the Skies! the Flyer Career

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Clear the Flight Decks!  Flyers: Members of the Close Orbit and Airspace Control Command (the air force) of a world. The description text in...
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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Session Report Heirloom Heist!

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Holtzmann, week 9 of year SA 929 At this week's session we had three Travellers: Graham Clark, Dietrich Smith and a fellow known only a...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Play Report: The Return of the Star Walker

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The Star Walker ( see this post ) limped out of jump space in an unknown system far to the galactic South of Holtzmann's Corridor. Fortu...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Farewell, Baron Namsos. Hello . . . ???

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 In an earlier post  I described the chaotic events on Schamel that led to the death of Baron Namsos of Stavanger, and narrowly avoided the ...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Why there are no Aliens in my Traveller Setting

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 S imple answer: I don't need them. What purpose do aliens serve? To produce other-worldliness? To remind the players that they aren...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The Schamel Affair: A Traveller Braunstein

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It all started in week 16 of year 929 of the Space Age when Tyrian von Stolberg arrived on Schamel. He was under orders from Count Murietta ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

'I think I did a TARDIS' - a First at the Gaming Table

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  Huh?* This past weekend, we had two firsts at the table while playing Traveller. This despite that I've played this game since about ...
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Monday, August 12, 2024

Update for the Table Group

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 I received a request for the status of all PCs that are/have been in play at the table.  To the best of my record-keeping knowledge, this i...
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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Abstract Combat - Battle at PetroPlas!

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  My son's Mercenary outfit got its first big battle yesterday. On the war-torn banana republic world of Faldor, the Wolfpack is protec...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Adventures in Resource Discovery

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This is an addendum to the previous post on the Class-E starport. I'm looking outside of my usual lane of politics-influenced adventure...
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