OK, my Mongoose Traveller 1e review is out - https://youtu.be/7FG8DbQ0BSE
#ttrpg #traveller

And another #TravellerRPG #Traveller CT Comet tourism to scale: I also plotted the orbit of C/1680 V1 (“Great Comet of 1680"), as I'm getting a kick out of trying to imagine the classic traveller to-scale play area to handle objects like C/1680 V1. Side comment personal view: C/1680 V1 is a solar system object, Voyager 1 is nowhere near c1680 aphelion, yet voyager 1 has "left the solar system"? 🤷

#Traveller #TravellerRPG (CT) comet tourism to scale. I added New Horizons, Arrokoth and Pluto (along with Eris, which was already there), and the rest of the planets. There's something kind of interesting about the outer solar system in Traveller. it is sort of a no-sophants-land, the vast majority of Travellers are using their jump drives to get to other stars. Even if the outer planets are reachable by jump, why waste the space on the drive - it can be reached in normal space - but not fast

I forgot to include the orbit of Eris in the #Traveller #TravellerRPG Comet Tourism to-scale (1mm=100km) diagram in google earth, so here it is. Once again, many wargaming centers don't include adequate space to handle CT at the scale of the solar system.

We finally realized we need some new careers for our upcoming Traveller campaign, to fit the original setting. For the most part, it's straight up Mongoose 2E, but we're at least adding 2 additional psionic careers.

Though time-honored, the examples we don't want to follow are the Zhodani (psionics fully integrated into society) and the Imperium (psionics banned).

#Traveller #Mongoose #Psionics #TTRPG

#Traveller #TravellerRPG Comet Tourism play area. What does the Comet Tourism game look like so far, and where could we play? I thought I'd plot the paths of the comet and spacecraft (including 3d components) over my local city park (Brentwood Park, Portland, Oregon) thinking we could game there. Regrettably, at the CT game scale the movements of the ship and comet requires a larger park. The size of the play area is probably larger than most hobby wargame rooms, too.

#SeptembeRPG Day 10: A mash-up of games you did or you're thinking of doing
I‘d like to see/write an hybrid of an #osr / #d20 adventure game which also features a solid life path mechanic. Think #Traveller or #BurningWheel
The game would take social class seriously. I like to think of #osr PCs as folks moving along the fringes of society, anyway. Armed to the teeth & highly mobile, they operate to some extent outside the social order: misfits, swords for hire, spendthrift soldiers of fortune…

#Traveller #TravellerRPG Comet Tourism, Turn 444. Along with C/2023 P1, we're 511.3 scale meters from the surface of the Sun, while Mercury is presently 525.7 scale meters from the surface. Total trip journey so far is 1512 scale meters, while the comet has only moved 292.1 scale meters in that time. That's a pretty big CT playing surface needed.

#Traveller #TravellerRPG comet tourism side note (turn 368), more to do with frames of reference than anything this time: one nice thing about the equatorial and ecliptic frames is you can tell which season it is on Earth just by Earth's position. Quadrant 1 (+x, +y) is northern hemisphere autumn, -x +y is winter, and so on. I expanded the view to plot the Tesla Roadster as well.

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And scifi gamers wanted distances in light-years, even though astronomical standard is parsecs.

With #Traveller being the happy exception. Because 1 pc is average star-system separation in our neighborhood, which makes for conveniently compact sector maps.

Ok #Traveller spaceflight types: space is 3d, tabletops are 2d. What does the plane of the tabletop represent, if you were playing a game set in the solar system:

#Traveller comet tourism side note: I've rotated everything into the Comet's orbital plane (+X = perihelion, +Z = orbit normal, +Y = Cross(X,Z). I did it this way because the comet is retrograde but I wanted the planet motion to still be counterclockwise). Note with the Z dimension chopped off how distorted the planet orbits look from the plane of the comet's orbit.

Hanging out in the front yard…

#Artist #Photoshoot #BeautifulDays #Traveller #BDSM #Evolution #BodyPositive #MaleImage #PositiveVIBES #Sex #Exploration #MyImage #HairyBoy #HairyChest #Creation #Treasure #TreasureChest #Fetish #Expression #DarkLove #NYCBoy #Photography #Leather #Process #Piercings #Inspire #WorkInProgress #Nude #NakedMale #FullFrontal

Here to start the day…

#Artist #Photoshoot #BeautifulDays #Traveller #BDSM #Evolution #BodyPositive #MaleImage #PositiveVIBES #Sex #Exploration #MyImage #HairyBoy #HairyChest #Creation #Treasure #TreasureChest #Fetish #Expression #DarkLove #NYCBoy #Photography #Leather #Process #Piercings #Inspire #WorkInProgress #Nude #NakedMale #FullFrontal

#Traveller Comet Tourism: Turn 236 - Arrival. CT scale distance = 6 cm. The engines have stopped and the ship is in zero g, aside from occasional station-keeping thrusts. Now the task is to determine if it is safe to bring tourists to the surface of the comet itself, watching for signs of calving and surface activity. Scale distance from the sun is 598 m, tp=15 Sept 2023 12:12:15 (TDB).

#Traveller Comet Tourism,Turn 196. Our hyperbolic excess velocity is no longer completely insane, at 368 km/sec. Range to the comet is 82.3 scale meters - if a US football field were the playing area, we could now plot both the ship and the comet. Scale velocity is 4.0 meters/turn. Behind us, at 1267 scale meters, Earth is a bright -4 magnitude star, and the moon quite bright itself at 0.4 magnitude.

Getting ready to do laundry…

#Artist #Photoshoot #BeautifulDays #Traveller #BDSM #Evolution #BodyPositive #MaleImage #PositiveVIBES #Sex #Exploration #MyImage #HairyBoy #HairyChest #Creation #Treasure #TreasureChest #Fetish #Expression #DarkLove #NYCBoy #Photography #Leather #Process #Piercings #Inspire #WorkInProgress #Nude #NakedMale #FullFrontal

#SeptembeRPG Day 6: That game you really want to play but can't seem to find the right group or time for

I find myself in the privileged position to know many fine people ♥️ who are all in for playing all kinds of #ttrpgs. Alas, there never seems to be enough time. Would love to run a long game of #ApocalypseWorld or a #DarkSun or #StarsWithoutNumber / #Traveller campaign 


#Traveller comet tourism, shipboard morning, day 3, turn 151. 360 meters from the comet and 1006 meters from earth, heliocentric velocity is 8.12 meters/turn. e is down to 310. CT sensor ranges are typically 17.9, 9 and 4.5 meters - we're still moving so fast that we'd move within a commercial ship's sensor bubble in one turn.

#Traveller comet tourism. Shipboard dinner time, turn 103, and we're inside the orbit of Venus. Velocity is now 10.2 m/turn (0.34% c), 525 m from Earth, 861.3 m from C/2023 P1, and 284.8 m from Parker Solar Probe. e= 533.4, solar system hyperbolic excess velocity = 1031.9 km/sec. We're probably past galactic escape velocity.