Category Archives: Traveller

A science fiction game from the late 1970s.

Our Other Games

The only games that I write up are the ones that I am running, but we are running others as well. We are very fortunate to have a group of skilled and dedicated players and referees, enough to run 4 … Continue reading

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Some Useful Links for Starship Adventures

Traveller Geomorphs: For Traveller Deckplans (using Paint.net). http://gurpsland.no-ip.org/geomorphs/#Archives Yet Another Traveller Blog: For even more deckplans. https://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/search?q=deck+plan Colonial Chrome: For lots of top-down drawings of speeders, fighters, and starships from Star Wars. https://www.deviantart.com/colonialchrome/gallery/all 2nd Dynasty: For 3d printable starships and … Continue reading

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Traveller: The Duchess Selene

We played Special Supplement 4: One Crowded Hour – a Generic Adventure (2006) from Avenger Enterprises. It took a lot of prep, as it used a 600 ton Type M Subsidized Liner (the Duchess Selene), which mean piecing together digital … Continue reading

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Jane Lindskold, George R.R. Martin, & Roger Zelazny

This post has gone through a lot of revision, because I keep diving down the rabbit hole. And it has been a lot of fun. There was a great podcast that I recommend you listen to. It is called, Some … Continue reading

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Starship Geomorphs 2.0

Robert Pierce is an architect and a Traveller fan. He uses Autocad to make some fantastic deckplans, and he has just released an entire book (239 pages!) of starship geomorphs, for free. Grab this now, as it will serve as … Continue reading

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Traveller: Mixing Cthulhu with the Kinunir

Cover produced by The Zhodani Base I managed to lose my notes for my adventure tonight, so instead we thought about what to play. Known Worlds Conquest? Holmesian D&D? Mao? Once Upon a Time? Ultimately Richard mentioned he always wanted … Continue reading

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Traveller: Sentient Races Statistics

Back in the 1980s I made up a list of sentient races for Traveller, both the canon races (Hiver, K’Kree, etc.) and non-canon stuff from Star Wars and Star Trek. I’ve added a couple since then, and made it available … Continue reading

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Peter’s Software for Traveller & Harn

Peter Kreft of Siegen, Germany, has been developing executable utilities for Traveller and Harn since 2017. He also has one for GURPS 4. His page is https://peterssoftwareprojects.com/ and is worth a look if you’re interested in those.

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TRAVELLER: Trojan Reach

Our party was small — just myself (a Vargr corsair with 2 Starburst for Extraordinary Heroism) and a Qwab (Newt) diplomat on Pallindrome. We were embedded with 2nd squad in the servant of Baroness Gloriana, along with another Vargr, and … Continue reading

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TRAVELLER: Preparing for Old School game in Trojan Reach

So we’re getting ready for a Classic Traveller game set in the Trojan Reach. I dug around and found my copy of Galactic 24c so I can act as navigator on my laptop, where I’ve installed dosbox. I’m looking forward … Continue reading

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