This may sound like a stupid question, but would you buy an adventure written for the Cepheus engine, or do you prefer other versions of Traveller for adventures?
This may sound like a stupid question, but would you buy an adventure written for the Cepheus engine, or do you prefer other versions of Traveller for adventures?
i was on drivethruRPG.com a while ago and found a ton of interesting system-agnostic adventures. particularly i like the ideas that author Michael Brown is selling.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/9030/Michael-Brown
i bought one of his bundles (Vol. 2 i believe) and it has some neat ideas. these are single page adventures that are probably good for one sessions, which is what i'm looking for in my campaign.
i'm also running a version of Night City from Cyberpunk 2020 but instead of California it's on a world in the Ley sector. Brown wrote a noir-flavored Las Vegas adventure that I think will fit in there too. System-agnostics for the win!
I do like written adventures though, i know traveller doesn't go that route as often as something like D&D, but i appreciate at least the background info so i can make up the details on top of it. these one page adventures are nice cause they give a little more info or a few characters than a traditional adventure seed, but not so much that there isn't fun to be had with additions.
..................... this ......is, what, ...... I was going, to do, but some "expert" "top in his field" entertainment "lawyer" said I couldn't.
... Is there a Cepheus rep on the COTI I can talk to who's an expert in Traveller?
..................... this ......is, what, ...... I was going, to do, but some "expert" "top in his field" entertainment "lawyer" said I couldn't.
... Is there a Cepheus rep on the COTI I can talk to who's an expert in Traveller?
Well, Ian Stead publishes art for Traveller using Cepheus. I asked him why, but I didn't ask him how he did it.
CE was built with pieces drawn from an OGL of MgT1 and D20 (as I understand it). Thus, all the pieces of the rules are usable by you for published material.
You cannot mention the word "Traveller." (Instead it is a CE game... and you note this in the product according to the license elements found in CE.)
You cannot mention any elements of the Official Traveller Universe IP. (Thus, no Third Imperium. No names of worlds from the OTU. And so on.)
As long you a) stick to the rules of CE; b) invent your own material and use nothing from the OTU; and c) don't mention Traveller you should (as far as I understand the matter) be good to go.
For what it is worth: The above is exactly why CE was built in the first place.
The lawyer probably doesn't know anything about tabletop gaming or the OGL.
If you describe the planet, without naming the planet, you should be ok:
IE "This system has a rich main world with a shirt-sleeve atmosphere, a few continents and a balance of available surface water. (approximately 20% land and approximately 80% water). The system supports a population in the 100's of millions, which makes it too urbanized to make an agricultural world. This world contains a archaeological site with suspected high-tech remnants of the now-vanished precursor race. The world serves as the capital for the nearby group of systems. The main world is a satellite of a gas giant rather than the star in the system. It is a member of a large empire of thousands of systems with the local region of space spinward of the capitol of the empire, part of a Ducal domain consisting of hundreds of nearby stars whose seat is elsewhere in the region. This system, as a member world of this empire, holds the estate of an Imperial knight, a baronet, and the feifdoms of a baron, a viscount, and the duke that oversees the nearby systems (this duke is a lesser duke than the Duke mentioned previously). All five are members of the Imperial Nobility charged with overseeing the world. This world has a nearby Naval Base, capable of handling warships and a Scout Base, capable of handling Scout Service starships and personnel. This is the homeworld to a Minor Sentient Race, that make up 20% of the system's population. Less than 20% of the world's population made up of 2 non human (~10% each), but nevertheless major (when compared to the number of planets they appear on or control) races.
So if you want to kickoff at Regina, but don't want to possibly have issues with trademark infringement you could use the above.
Well, Ian Stead publishes art for Traveller using Cepheus. I asked him why, but I didn't ask him how he did it.