One of the people I followed on Google+ was Ian Stead, who has done a lot of space and Sci-Fi related art, including a number of excellent renderings of Traveller ships. These have been used for a number of Traveller-compatible shipbook and related products in the last decade or so. While he hasn't updated his website [https://biomassart.wordpress.com/] much, it's worth a visit.…
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For all of those whiners who complain that Oregon Trail was too tough because you could die on the first day, you can now follow this link [https://devilghost.com/software/travellercharacter/] (and reload as necessary to get a character that survives). The above results are all too typical for scouts.…
Omer G Joel over at spacecockroach.blogspot.com has been posting about his new background [http://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2018/08/hard-space-starflight.html] for the Cepheus Engine (a kindof Traveller retroclone mostly compatible with Mongoose Traveller), and it sounds fun, especially the aspects that lend themselves to aliens/outland style horror. I’ll note that it’s not the only project to do “weird shit man was not meant to know in space” of the gritty variety, there’s also a project call…
I know I posted this image before but only as an update to my review of Marc Miller’s Agent of the Imperium [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/08/agent-of-imperium-story-of-traveller.html]: Nothing quite underscores “the universe doesn’t care” like losing several characters before you even get one to play.…
A long time ago, in a suburb far away, a middle schooler went into the local hobby shop. Most of this shop was dedicated to trains, miniatures, modeling, and such, but it also had an aisle with role playing games and classic wargames by companies like TSR, Steve Jackson Games and Avalon Hill. His eyes fell upon a large, 8.5 x 11 hardcover book. The cover had two people with futuristic weapons, in clothes that would easily fit in on the Millennium Falcon, or Serenity. They were leaving their shi…