Traveller Fantasy RPG
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Yes, robject was running a PbP campaign for a while. I was in it.
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As an aside has anyone found Aldreth in the OTU ?
Paste: "Aldreth X768670-2 Ag Ni R510"
I started looking a long while back but... couldn't find it. I'm not a wiz with programming. I just wondered if there was a suitable candidate planet which the locals call home by a different name even. Maybe red zone?
Paste: Aldreth is worth reading for the spell names alone. I found myself laughing out loud at the spell called Happy Waggy Tail. And from the supplementary spell list (ideas for spells) the spell called Dessicatory Flatulence. Aaaarrrgh!
Paste: "Aldreth X768670-2 Ag Ni R510"
I started looking a long while back but... couldn't find it. I'm not a wiz with programming. I just wondered if there was a suitable candidate planet which the locals call home by a different name even. Maybe red zone?
Paste: Aldreth is worth reading for the spell names alone. I found myself laughing out loud at the spell called Happy Waggy Tail. And from the supplementary spell list (ideas for spells) the spell called Dessicatory Flatulence. Aaaarrrgh!
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ghashsnaga
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Yuppers. I am playtesting the pdf (it need a ton of work). I am going to overhaul it to be more in-line with the original LBBs. Currently I am in the middle of comp. exams from graduate school. So look for a revised Book 1 and Book 2 near the end of December.
ara
Any progress? I'd be quite interested in this.
Indeed, I'd be happy to help playtesting it with a PBEM or PBP; the Wanderer game here seems to have bled out.
Oh, I wrote my own version of City Generation if anyone would like to look at it; it needs fortifications and bases but I think it'll work.
MongooseFordy
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Can anyone tell me who's actually responsible for this?
Rhialto the Marvelous
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The guy who made it is one Dirk Remmecke, an online buddy of mine.
There's a story behind this. He once owned a game store, and one fine day wanted to find out about the shelf-browsing habits of his customers. His theory: people don't look left and right. They only check out what they know already.
So he did the Wanderer mock-up and for a couple of weeks left it right next to CT (IIRC).
No one ever asked him about it.
There's a story behind this. He once owned a game store, and one fine day wanted to find out about the shelf-browsing habits of his customers. His theory: people don't look left and right. They only check out what they know already.
So he did the Wanderer mock-up and for a couple of weeks left it right next to CT (IIRC).
No one ever asked him about it.
I tried PMing him about it and never got a reply. Oh well...
A very interesting thread. 
Some years ago we played a campaign in a setting that focussed on a fictio-
nal Inuit culture, the Asor, on Baffin Island and their first contacts with the
Greenlander northmen.
We tried to use Traveller rules for this campaign, but this would have requi-
red too much design work, and so we finally used Call of Cthulhu rules, which
were easier to adapt to the setting.
However, this thread almost motivated me to make another attempt to de-
sign a low tech Traveller setting, perhaps even to resurrect our Asornok cam-
paign, this time with Mongoose Traveller rules.
While the Greenlanders would have the usual medieval careers, the Asor pro-
bably would be Hunters, Crafters or Shamans (all female and named Angano-
ka in our campaign), with a number of specializations for each of the careers
- for example, the Anganoka could follow the Path of the Wolf, the Path of
the Seal or the Path of the Snow Owl, each with different skill sets.
The technology would be hard to fit into technology levels. While the Asor -
like the real world Inuit - have comparatively few materials to work with, their
equipment usually is far better adapted to an arctic environment than that of
the Greenlanders: A lower tech level that produces far superior equipment ...
except for the Greenlanders' metal tools and weapons.
Trade could easily be integrated into the setting, with the Asor trading walrus
ivory for metal goods (at least until they realize how quickly those things cor-
rode in their environment ...) and thelike, but it would of course be limited to
a pure barter trade.
Creatures would be a minor problem, at least I have not yet seen any stats
for polar bear, seal, walrus, whale and thelike - some necessary design work,
especially if some fictional creatures would be included, too (the original cam-
paign used some arctic Cthulhu creatures, like the Gnoph-Keh, too).
Hmmm ... I have to ask the players what they would think of this ...
Some years ago we played a campaign in a setting that focussed on a fictio-
nal Inuit culture, the Asor, on Baffin Island and their first contacts with the
Greenlander northmen.
We tried to use Traveller rules for this campaign, but this would have requi-
red too much design work, and so we finally used Call of Cthulhu rules, which
were easier to adapt to the setting.
However, this thread almost motivated me to make another attempt to de-
sign a low tech Traveller setting, perhaps even to resurrect our Asornok cam-
paign, this time with Mongoose Traveller rules.
While the Greenlanders would have the usual medieval careers, the Asor pro-
bably would be Hunters, Crafters or Shamans (all female and named Angano-
ka in our campaign), with a number of specializations for each of the careers
- for example, the Anganoka could follow the Path of the Wolf, the Path of
the Seal or the Path of the Snow Owl, each with different skill sets.
The technology would be hard to fit into technology levels. While the Asor -
like the real world Inuit - have comparatively few materials to work with, their
equipment usually is far better adapted to an arctic environment than that of
the Greenlanders: A lower tech level that produces far superior equipment ...
except for the Greenlanders' metal tools and weapons.
Trade could easily be integrated into the setting, with the Asor trading walrus
ivory for metal goods (at least until they realize how quickly those things cor-
rode in their environment ...) and thelike, but it would of course be limited to
a pure barter trade.
Creatures would be a minor problem, at least I have not yet seen any stats
for polar bear, seal, walrus, whale and thelike - some necessary design work,
especially if some fictional creatures would be included, too (the original cam-
paign used some arctic Cthulhu creatures, like the Gnoph-Keh, too).
Hmmm ... I have to ask the players what they would think of this ...
Meanwhile I tried to find out what an Asor Career for the Mongoose Traveller
character generation could look like, and you can see and download the re-
sult here:
http://www.sfrpg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=775
Comments and ideas would be most welcome.
character generation could look like, and you can see and download the re-
sult here:
http://www.sfrpg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=775
Comments and ideas would be most welcome.
ghashsnaga
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Wanderer books
Hello all,
Book 1 of Wanderer has been rewritten to resemble the LBB. It's all going under the OGL (and free). Book 3 is a scattering of notes but should be in rough draft form before long.
Things that are being worked on
1) Editing and proofreading and playtesting Book 1
2) Same for Book 3
3) Getting permission from Dirk (the guy that made the mock up) to use Wanderer as the title
4) Supplement 1 - High Fantasty
5) Mid-Late Fall - Ashcans with boxes (yeah, box set) to be handed out to contributors, etc..
ara
Hello all,
Book 1 of Wanderer has been rewritten to resemble the LBB. It's all going under the OGL (and free). Book 3 is a scattering of notes but should be in rough draft form before long.
Things that are being worked on
1) Editing and proofreading and playtesting Book 1
2) Same for Book 3
3) Getting permission from Dirk (the guy that made the mock up) to use Wanderer as the title
4) Supplement 1 - High Fantasty
5) Mid-Late Fall - Ashcans with boxes (yeah, box set) to be handed out to contributors, etc..
ara
Sounds like you're a lot further along with your version than I am with mine.
Ah, well, I probably would never have finished it anyway...
Hans
ghashsnaga
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I am getting some early playtest reports in. I am changing some of the lifepaths to better reflect the S&S setting. I'll get a document posted here as soon as I clean up Book 1 and Book 3.
Awesome, Mr. "Fire-Slave".
My Wanderer LBB1 was thin, far too thin, and rested unused on the shelf for too long, and so has been consigned to the circular file.
ghashsnaga
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Just got some initial playtest reports in. I am making some changes to lifepaths to be more sword and sorcery like.
If we get Book 1 and Book 3 hammer out in the next week or two I'll post the pdfs here.
ara
If we get Book 1 and Book 3 hammer out in the next week or two I'll post the pdfs here.
ara
ghashsnaga
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At the moment all citations (including mine) are stripped out while we work out what works ruleswise and what we need to toss. When the finalized playtest version comes out all the credits go back in.
