Classic Traveller, Facsimile Edition is what I’ve been using.
Playing Traveller on the Actual Play twitch channel with friends. Here’s the youtube channel where our games are archived.
Here is the embedded playlist:
The characters:
Watch the 12 second clip below to see MadJay, on the top right of the screen, as he realizes where Misha B is going with her plans and gets on board with killing the Admiral of the Imperial Fleet:
And here is a one minute clip of Misha B inspiring homocidal plans amongst our Travellers:
Made a Star Wars text crawl as an intro to our third session. Watch it at the link below:
Below are the blog posts about the play and prep for our Thursday night sessions of Traveller.
So, time to muster out and travel into the stars. It was only 3 of us tonight but that is fine.
We made characters and Captain Egon Star was born
Thursday Night Science Fiction presents Silver Dogstar
We’ve got religious pilgrims whose messianic figure left the system, promising to return at the head of an alien army or with angels, depending on how you read it. And there is a cartel of gun-runners who front ship mortgages that need fleshing out.
Post-1st Session Prep
It was a single jump to Hades 23, the war-torn ice-moon where two planetary ducal heirs were going hunting and Captain Egon was dropping off ammunition to the side losing a space war.
Blood & Commerce on Hades-23
Okay, so some sketchy thoughts about the Traveller guy I rolled up:
Mister Ersatz
It was a single jump to Hades 23, the war-torn ice-moon where two planetary ducal heirs were going hunting and Captain Egon was dropping off ammunition to the side losing a space war.
Death Stalks Hades-23
I had a vague idea of what to do tonight and Jesse, who plays Captain Egon Starr, was not able to make it. I figured we’d bring the situation to as near a conclusion as we could and then continue next week as the Silver Dogstar doesn’t go anywhere without its captain.
The Broken Dreadnought
Crew MessWhat to do now? We’ll decide that next week.
Wait, so, did this game matter at all?
Below this mark are links to houserules, more helpful links, and useful tables…
Saw a request for ship names in a Facebook Traveller book, so let’s get this one out into the world.
Ship Names
I used the jump as an opportunity to get a little weird. Players could opt out by having their characters take benign sleep medications but if they wanted something trippy – alright, here we go.
Hyperspace
There is gold buried out there on those internets. I was putting my pan in the digital waters and here’s what I got from this RPG.net thread about CK’s blog posts about Traveller’s Little Black Booklets
Buried Gold
Coming soon…
Coming soon…
I made this for Stars Without Number and then again for Mothership.
Quick and Easy Sci-fi Soldier Creation Tables
Largesse is how much spending power a Traveller can cobble together out in the far future’s cold galaxy. The main stat referenced is Social Standing but on some worlds…
Traveller – Largesse
Putting together Traveller and science fiction RPG links for my own perusal.
Traveller Links
In which I make a character and enjoy the world-building implied in the process.
Carlysle the Knife
Character Sheet PDF
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