MGT and MT characters to Classic Traveller

[robject]

Have you tried to convert Mongoose Traveller characters or MegaTraveller characters to Classic Traveller? If so, how did you handle it?

In particular, it looks like the skill levels are pretty close in distribution. Would anyone like to relate their experience here?

 

[Cryton]

I never worked up any conversion for MGT to CT, what I did do was to adapt the MGT character gen to use MT skills and cascade charts. It took a bit of doing, but it worked out ok.

This was done because I think that MGT has the best character gen system to date, while MT is still my favorite system for building things in. I also have a soft spot for the MT combat and task systems as well. So I adapted what I liked into MT for use in my game.

I have since discarded that game, it having run its course. That and the fact being that the MGT rules are the easiest to find of the various Traveller rules sets. As my players are all generally new to the game, and like to have rules sets of their own, so I have fully shifted over to MGT, warts and all.

 

[robject]

Cryton, that's sort of the vibe I'm getting from friends via email: CT and MT don't tend to port characters in from other systems, but as people pick up Mongoose Traveller, they like to bring in characters they created way back when. It helps that MGT is a close cousin to them.

 

[aramis]

Cryton, that's sort of the vibe I'm getting from friends via email: CT and MT don't tend to port characters in from other systems, but as people pick up Mongoose Traveller, they like to bring in characters they created way back when. It helps that MGT is a close cousin to them.

I found that the skill tables and lists being incompatible, it was just easier to not convert; a working conversion document would look very similar to the one in Survival Margin, and that was more work than it was worth for anything short of published adventures. (And produced some unpleasant surprises due to the different balance of stat/skill in determining competence.)

It's not like going from CT to MT, where you just roll for the missing Special Duty receipts, and then roll those levels.