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I want to get back to posting here regularly. I guess I should start with a life update. I'm still homeless, with no prospects for that changing anytime soon. I got some help from social workers to apply for housing assistance, and despite their best efforts I was turned down. I'm not a drug addict and have no disabilities, so other people have a ( Read more... )

Putting this here so I don't lose it before I have the time and spoons to actually explore it:

http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Gaming/traveller-reading.html

It turns out that Space Viking by H. Beam Piper, the 1962 novel that is one of the principal inspirations for Traveller, is available online for free courtesy of Project Gutenberg. I'm three chapters in and so far, except for the occasional reference to air cars and space travel, it could be set in the middle ages. A baron is marrying the daughter ( Read more... )

In my last post on the subject of playing Traveller "out of the box", I extolled the virtues of Traveller's random character generation:

Players should bring no preconceived ideas of what kind of character they want to play. Let the dice fall where they may, and then figure out who the character is from the results. Instead of hoping for a hotshot ( Read more... )

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I found this piece of art apparently commissioned for the Clement Sector RPG. It's pretty representative of what I was picturing in my head when I wrote "Atmospheric shuttles and atmo-capable startships are usually shaped like lifting bodies" in the previous post. (Artist: Ian Stead)


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