Alien Module 2: Vargr

[far-trader]

Indeed - in the new canon, they are actually three inches tall. . .

Oooh, Pocket Vargr! Cool!

 

[rancke]

Indeed - in the new canon, they are actually three inches tall. . .

I'm afraid I don't believe you, Matt. You wouldn't be able to sell scale miniatures of them.


Hans

 

[captainjack]

I'm afraid I don't believe you, Matt. You wouldn't be able to sell scale miniatures of them.


Hans

1:1 scale should work nicely...

 

[stofsk]

I quite like it. They're different that what I've seen of Vargr so far, but that's not a bad thing. So long as they look 'werewolf-ish' then I don't see the problem.

 

[Britti_Lover]

"Neat art. Looks cool. Looks very "actiony" and "super-hero-ey". I like it.

Not Traveller.

Star Wars, maybe.

Definitely not in the tradition of CT."

Yea, well, I got out my Gurps Traveller Vargr book and they look pretty darn cool in it as well. Espcially the cover. A very good book published in 1998.
AND Vargrs are not that small in it. According to my GT Vargr book, they are 5 feet four inches tall and 135 lbs on the average. So to me the picture here matches my GT book. And this GURPS Traveller book was published 11 years ago so a new book is rather welcome. This book is NOT CT, its Mongoose Traveler. In some ways a better game actually.

Vargrs are very dexterious at a slight STR disadvantage. I've played them and are quite a hoot to role-play.

 

[Supplement Four]

This book is NOT CT, its Mongoose Traveler.

Refers to Mongoose's broken promise to base MGT on CT.

In some ways a better game actually.

No, not really.

 

[beowulf2044]

At least the errata doesn't have errors in it.

 

[kafka47]

It's funny, I do actually like the direction that Mongoose has gone with the art...in terms of the covers...I find the original Vargr (CT) how imagine Flash Gordon. Sure, I would not have chose dueling swords but a nasty corsair replete with vacc suit but this one is good as well.

The interior art I find keeps getting better...they are not there yet but when I look over the diverse folio that makes up CT there was more than a share of images that were "not Traveller".

 

[beowulf2044]

I wonder when the Sword Worlders will get an update.

 

[Peter Schutze]

samurai werewolves is nothing like I envisioned Vargr

not sure why they'd be shaggy dog varieties either

 

[aramis]

samurai werewolves is nothing like I envisioned Vargr

not sure why they'd be shaggy dog varieties either

Rasta Vargr? (Caused, no doubt, by enountering the Rasta Puppet Dragon...)

 

[saundby]

New Aliens Require New Equipment

With the new Vargr so small, it's going to be important to drop a cheese sandwich at the right time to keep Solomani dogs from swallowing the entire Vargr battle fleet, thus causing the players to lose the game some long time later.

And if Sybil Danning is the model for the new Sword Worlders, I can't wait!

 

[MongooseFordy]

With the new Vargr so small, it's going to be important to drop a cheese sandwich at the right time to keep Solomani dogs from swallowing the entire Vargr battle fleet, thus causing the players to lose the game some long time later.

So cheese sandwiches? Are these a well known Vargr defensive ploy? I need to inform the writer immediately...

Dear Simon, as well as adding antlers to the physical description of Vargr, it would appear they use cheese sandwiches...

 

[saundby]

It's a well-known means of preventing diminutive alien space fleets from being ingested by nearby dogs. Refer to the Infocom game of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

Game FAQ:
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/429/429003p1.html

 

[ThunderChilde]

I wonder when the Sword Worlders will get an update.

Umm, right up till this post I foresaw no real need for a Swordies update. I now stand corrected.

 

[Klaus]

I think he's going Japanese. I think he's going Japanese. I really think so.

While the vargr may be hairy-handed, he doesn't really look as if he's 'turning japanese'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Japanese

 

[BardicHeart]

Indeed - in the new canon, they are actually three inches tall. . .

Well I guess they'd have to be to fit in the canon. But isn't that kinda inhumane? Or is this the Vargr Circus?

::wanders off singing ::
FLASH.... aaaaahaahhhhhhh.... VARGER.... aaaahhaaaaahhh.... he's going to rob every one of us!

 

[mbrinkhues]

This is another bad book by Mongoose. They should have asked someone who knows more about Vargr! That way they would have realized that in CT there are three species of Vargr decending from different parts of the canis species and forming different elements of Vargr society:

The typical Vargr in entertainment, middle/upper management or the soft sciences is based on this species

Vargr in most blue collar jobs, lower management, engineers etc. are based on this one

Most Vargr pirats decend from this species

 

[McPerth]

If not for the pistol one of them is carring, I'd say they were gnolls rom D&D. I cannot say anything about the rest of the book, as I havn't seen it.

 

[Theophilus]

Speaking of Vargr size, I came across the picture on Page 3 of Flaming Eye, by DGP. I had just reread Vilani and Vargr and that when I realized there was an Urzaeng Vargr pictured there with a regular vargr and three humans. Arnold Vargenegger. Really buffed, 2 meters tall. Now I see why V&V says an Urzaeng is capable of holding there own against an adult Aslan!