Proto-Traveller Mini-Supplements

[Jeffr0]

Back in the 80's GURPS was great in that it made it possible to get a slew of rpgs made that wouldn't have otherwise happened: Humanx, Uplift, Horseclans, etc.

Of course CT is the original generic sci-fi rpg system. What if... instead of developing the gigantic imperium, "world-books" were produced that detailed a background for the LBB1-3 rules. They might include new skills, new equipment for spaceships, perhaps some small modifications to the trade and space combat rules, new character generation tables, suggestions for altering the world generation sequence for the setting, and/or suggestions on how to adapt other CT products to fit in with the new background. What if Classic Traveller had turned into a family of settings instead of focusing on the 3I?

What mini-supplements would you have liked to see... and what kind of goodies would you have wanted to find in them?

 

[Jeffr0]

Back in the 80's GURPS was great in that it made it possible to get a slew of rpgs made that wouldn't have otherwise happened: Humanx, Uplift, Horseclans, etc.

Of course CT is the original generic sci-fi rpg system. What if... instead of developing the gigantic imperium, "world-books" were produced that detailed a background for the LBB1-3 rules. They might include new skills, new equipment for spaceships, perhaps some small modifications to the trade and space combat rules, new character generation tables, suggestions for altering the world generation sequence for the setting, and/or suggestions on how to adapt other CT products to fit in with the new background. What if Classic Traveller had turned into a family of settings instead of focusing on the 3I?

What mini-supplements would you have liked to see... and what kind of goodies would you have wanted to find in them?

 

[Ron]

What about Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye? I think Traveller would do great to model the moties and all the technology without much effort.

 

[Ron]

What about Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye? I think Traveller would do great to model the moties and all the technology without much effort.

 

[robject]

And Dumarest's universe is reasonably similar. Space travel is downplayed, with nearly all of the adventures taking place on worlds.

 

[robject]

And Dumarest's universe is reasonably similar. Space travel is downplayed, with nearly all of the adventures taking place on worlds.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Wasn't that the point of QLI's Traveller's Aide series? (Which is stuck, and I am holding onto a few bits of my subscription.... )

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Wasn't that the point of QLI's Traveller's Aide series? (Which is stuck, and I am holding onto a few bits of my subscription.... )

 

[robject]

In another thread, Sigg mentioned Traveller politics being vaguely Dune-like, so:

Dune. An Emperor controlling the Navy, a plethora of Dukes squabbling for power, and a Traders' Guild controlling interstellar traffic.

 

[robject]

In another thread, Sigg mentioned Traveller politics being vaguely Dune-like, so:

Dune. An Emperor controlling the Navy, a plethora of Dukes squabbling for power, and a Traders' Guild controlling interstellar traffic.

 

[robject]

Originally posted by Ron:
What about Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye? I think Traveller would do great to model the moties and all the technology without much effort.

This is actually two (or more?) mini-settings: first, the CoDominium, which is relatively high tech; second, and much later, the Imperium, governed from Sparta. Also, potentially, the period between the two empires. Like and yet unlike the official Traveller universe.

 

[robject]

Originally posted by Ron:
What about Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye? I think Traveller would do great to model the moties and all the technology without much effort.

This is actually two (or more?) mini-settings: first, the CoDominium, which is relatively high tech; second, and much later, the Imperium, governed from Sparta. Also, potentially, the period between the two empires. Like and yet unlike the official Traveller universe.

 

[BillDowns]

To pull over a setting from another thread, Bill Baldwin's Helmsman posits a different imperial setting, albeit using a different FTL drive concept. But it could still work.

 

[BillDowns]

To pull over a setting from another thread, Bill Baldwin's Helmsman posits a different imperial setting, albeit using a different FTL drive concept. But it could still work.

 

[fredofmars]

Originally posted by robject:
This is actually two (or more?) mini-settings: first, the CoDominium, which is relatively high tech; second, and much later, the Imperium, governed from Sparta. Also, potentially, the period between the two empires. Like and yet unlike the official Traveller universe.

As many as five settings. The CoDominion period, the first Imperium period (which would probably include the war against the Sauron supermen), the dark ages time between the first and second Imperiums (like the TNE Hard Times), the second Imperium (to when the Moties are able to leave the Mote), and whatever happens after the Moties are able to control their population and leave the Mote.

 

[fredofmars]

Originally posted by robject:
This is actually two (or more?) mini-settings: first, the CoDominium, which is relatively high tech; second, and much later, the Imperium, governed from Sparta. Also, potentially, the period between the two empires. Like and yet unlike the official Traveller universe.

As many as five settings. The CoDominion period, the first Imperium period (which would probably include the war against the Sauron supermen), the dark ages time between the first and second Imperiums (like the TNE Hard Times), the second Imperium (to when the Moties are able to leave the Mote), and whatever happens after the Moties are able to control their population and leave the Mote.

 

[beowulf2044]

Paranoia Press did some great work when they produced SORAG, Merchants and Merchendise and Scouts and Assasins.

I'm still unhappy with the fact that they advertised a forthcoming book titled Rykers Catalouge of Arms that never came to fruition.

I'd love to see a revival along these lines.

 

[beowulf2044]

Paranoia Press did some great work when they produced SORAG, Merchants and Merchendise and Scouts and Assasins.

I'm still unhappy with the fact that they advertised a forthcoming book titled Rykers Catalouge of Arms that never came to fruition.

I'd love to see a revival along these lines.

 

[Cymew]

I actually own those books by Paranoia Press. Though, I have never read them. Do they actually provide much that wasn't later covered in GDW publications? SORAG, I guess, never got much other stuff published.

 

[Cymew]

I actually own those books by Paranoia Press. Though, I have never read them. Do they actually provide much that wasn't later covered in GDW publications? SORAG, I guess, never got much other stuff published.