Traveller General--Survival on a Foreign Planet Edition

Man I would love to play Traveller again but my group is adamantly PF/5e/Shadowrun they don't want to learn a new system

>>53447761
That's a shame. Traveller is pretty gud

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Don't you fucking 404 on me.

>>53447761
Where are you IRL? I've never played Traveller but it seems like it could be fun.

>>53447619
Anyone know how to open the Spica Publishing books they sell on rpgsuite?
Should have gotten them from DriveThru, but wasn't thinking straight.

>>53451288
Are they in some sort of weird format, or what?

>>53451333
they give you a 13 mb file that has no way to run or open with any program I can find. Opened a support ticket, will report back.

>>53451456
What's the extension? If you say epub or mobi I will reach across the internet and slap some sense into you.

>>53451563
that's my trouble, there is no extension. Adding one doesn't work and it won't open with their other software.

>>53451767
try adding .rar, sometimes there arew books on CBR or CBZ and if you change them to rar you can unzip the folder and get the internal jpg's

>>53447619

Several come to mind. The Keith Brothers' "Ordeal by Eshaar", a world from a DGP adventure that is one giant fungii colony, and the times we messed around in gas giant atmospheres.

>>53453246
>gas giant atmospheres
With or without the ship? I imagine you could go crazy with jetpacks or other aircraft.

For running: Traveller Book, or Cepheus?

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>>53447619
>What's the most hostile planet your characters ever had to survive on?

A well-developed but sparsely populated agricultural world, totally baseline Imperial Culture. Think North Dakota in space.

Turns out the native animal life is instinctively xenophobic, and anything larger than a "gopher" will fanatically attack you until it kills you or you kill it. The native are fine, they've been eating the local food long enough, they don't smell like offworlders. They also think a half-tame smeerp randomly going for an offworlder's throat is hilarious. We didn't stay long.

>>53447761
p. sure you could use Shadowrun to play a game of traveller. The combat and skill rules from SR should work just fine if instead of a shitty apartment they're based out of a shitty type a hull that was written off after an accident and hauled out to the outskirts of the lowport's startown, or living in a scout ship and doing odd jobs across the subsector.

>>53453391

Are you fucking retarded?

>>53454232

Depends on your players. If a lack of familiarity is a "problem" with them, go with CE as it's more like current RPGs.

>>53454323

Doesn't rate an Amber Zone, because the Scouts *also* think it's hilarious.

So which books in the master archive are the "core rulebooks" for Classic Traveller? I've pulled the entire Mega archive and want to start in the right place.

>>53447761
Shadowrun has most of the pieces you need.

>>53460560
Either Books 1-3, "The Traveller Book", or "Starter Traveller". There are two versions of Books 1-3, as the 1977 edition is different in a bunch of subtle ways from the 1981 edition.

>>53455245
Oh man, I suspect you're the same autismo who ranted for two previous threads.

>>53453391
Go read "The Clouds of Saturn" by Michael McCollum

>>53460627

Of the three"cores" the wise anon listed. "Starter Traveller" is the "newest" and because of that has less errata.