Running traveller: Do's and Don'ts

[aramis]

Now, now... Rhand made it survivable... Aliens, also, was survivable. Not fun, but survivable, assuming the medic don't take the hits...

Can you tell which Leading Edge games I've run?

 

[Merxiless]

Yeah leading edge was pretty lethal, as far as that went.

Kind of like the old DQ Grievous injury chart.

 

[Trent]

Spectrum, the Rhand, then the Phoenix Command Combat System, definitely breaks you of the fear of killing characters. It's damned near impossbile not to when folks start shooting at them.

I once ran a game where a player had their character with their arm in a sling for 3 months game time, which broke into about 6 game sessions.

I also created a PCCS~Traveller hybrid system

If you like the PCCS then you may like to know this: Over on www.outpost31.com, a website dedicated to the movie "The thing" there is a set of rules for creating the thing in the PCCS, and an alternate ending scenario to the movie that is written for PCCS.

 

[rancke]

Don't: use T4's fusion power plants.

Don't use CT power plant fuel consumption rates.

(Clarification: They make the power plants ridiculously, belief-suspender-snappingly inefficient).



Hans