( This was posted to my Patreon account in 2016 but belongs here now. ) This is an example of the level 2 detail for the low prep, rich Traveller campaign building system. The Yuan Sub Sector is on the spinward end of the Free Terran Confederation. Note that I am using a 3d, 10 …
I have created a couple of pdfs for 6 x 6 hexagon map blanks that can "jigsaw" together to create higher scale maps. Their initial purpose is for use with Traveller or Cepheus Engine but they can be used with any game that needs scalable hex maps. https://www.patreon.com/posts/18072516
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 an example of the level 1 detail for the low prep, rich Traveller campaign building system. Astro Nations of the Free Terran Confederation Campaign Year 2332ce History. Humans expanded from sol starting in 2120ce using jump 1 ships. The first colonies were corporate run from the city of Olympia on Mars. Earth at …
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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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.
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