Spoiler Alert: If you are a player in the open table games you should not read this if you do not wish to spoil any sense of suspense, or to lesson the enjoyment of revelation during exploration. You have been warned. This year I am creating a campaign for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition that …
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This is a Low Prep RPG Philosophy article. The article on Low Prep, Rich Traveller Campaigns : A Game Structure Overview gave a framework for building the physical and broad political layout of a campaign This article begins to clothe that space with NPC groups that are doing things. What is a Faction? A group …
This is a Low Prep RPG Philosophy article. In the Traveller RPG, if you are creating your own setting rather than an existing one such as The Third Imperium, you use the classic mechanism of taking a blank sector sheet, populating it with stars and generating the planets. This procedural generation mechanic basically produces isolated …
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In the previous article you learned about the meta future boundary (MFB) being the place from which all time travel is initiated. Also that when anyone time travels they contaminate the temporal coordinate they jump to on the meta now with part of that boundary. The MFB and its contaminations are known as “change waves” …
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I was interested in creating a smuggling scenario structure, since I have need of it in my Traveller Campaign. So I began designing one. It turns out smuggling can include lots of sub structures. Even if I took a narrow definition of “smuggling” its big. As it is my definition of smuggling is “to take a shipment from one place to another secretly”. So in this article I will lay out a very high level structure and break it down into components at a fairly broad level.
There are plenty of time travel films and TV series, Back to the Future, Looper, X-Men Days of Future Past, The Time Tunnel, Doctor Who and so on. Physics doesn't look too kindly on most of these. The reality appears to be pretty dull so, for the sake of adventure we are going to redefine …
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