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: Quick and Dirty Vehicle Combat Rules Are Awesome We had an excellent Classic Traveller session this week. You can read the antics here on the …

: North Texas RPG Con Antics 2026 I attended the North Texas RPG Con over the last few days (June 4-6). Though this convention is, …

: First Mongoose Traveller 2e Character In 2 days I will be participating in the 2026 North Texas RPG Con, in Irving, Texas. This has become …

: Things I did during last night's Classic Traveller game... Examples of things in the rules and things not in the rules, applied fast and on the fly, during …

: NPC: Dahveed "Doc" Silvonius Another NPC, rolled up “as the dice fall” using the Citizens of Imperium supplement. No fudging. No …

: Our Old Traveller Games After creating the Index to Traveller: Out of the Box, I have been reading. I started reading some …

: Learning Skills in Traveller I wrote a session report for our Classic Traveller campaign’s 50th session, and some Ref’s Notes for …

: Too Many Ships? Next week we’ll be finishing the “spaceship race” sessions of our Classic Traveller game. I’m …

: More on "Traveller" 5e So a while back I wrote about the upcoming Traveller 5e - the “conversion” of Traveller to the game …

: More on vehicle combat I was just reading and participating in a thread over on the Citizens of the Imperium message boards …

: A few thoughts on our recent spaceship pursuit/fight As I have stated, we used the Cepheus Light ship combat rules. They worked really well. I have to …

: My preferences for a 2d6 RPG Been thinking about my preferences for science fiction roleplaying systems. Obviously they are all …

: Recommended Classic Traveller Reading Other than reading Books 1-3 of Classic Traveller over and over, my …

: Lost in a Parsec! Thinking about the importance of Navigation skill in Traveller and Cepheus Engine… Usually we think …

: The Numbers Are Not The Character? On our podcast, SAFCOcast, and on this blog I have no doubt mentioned the Traveller: Out of the Box …

: Vacc Suit This weekend I took part in an exchange on a Traveller Discord server about Vacc Suit vs Zero-G …

: Classic Traveller "Other" Character: Remy Lepeu This is Remi Lepeu, another Classic Traveller character I rolled up strictly following the die …

: Classic Traveller - the "Other" service I think Classic Traveller’s most overlooked character “service” is the “Other”. Admittedly, it is a …

: Ship Movement and Combat I’ve been reading ship combat rules from Classic Traveller, Cepheus Light, and the Cepheus Engine …

: I really have to say, the idea of Traveller being owned by anyone but Marc Miller will never not …

: Thoughts on 5e Traveller and Cultures in Gaming I’m kinda thinking out loud here, rolling some ideas around in my head, so be patient with me… …

: The best thing I’ve done for my Classic Traveller game over the last three years has been immersing …

: New Discord Conversation It’s been a few weeks since I’ve run our Classic Traveller campaign. Sometimes life and work get in …

: Some thoughts on GMing I have learned in almost 19 years of Aikido practice that awareness is really the key to getting …

: New Classic Traveller Stuff I think it’s too bad Marc Miller didn’t just continue developing Classic Traveller. Not to …

: More on Classic Traveller This is a total fanboy post, so be warned… Chris Enfors asked me this morning, via Mastodon, if I …

: Campaign Timeline as a resource for players and other gamers Ah - a long weekend. Time to rest, do laundry, and work on gaming stuff. Looks like it will be …

: A meandering post about my love of Classic Traveller So, I have a lot of the Mongoose Traveller 2e books. As I have said here and elsewhere, they are …

: An admission. I have a lot of trouble thinking of anything except Classic Traveller (1977 or 1981 or …

: Weekend Gaming Goals Gaming stuff to accomplish this weekend. Decide on vehicle combat system to use for Classic …

: Keep the middle T in VTT Since the pandemic I’ve been running my Classic Traveller game on Roll20.net (for the most part). My …

: Traveller gear and vehicles During session 38 of our Classic Traveller campaign, the characters expressed some interest in going …

: Improving Traveller Characters We’re taking a week off from our Classic Traveller campaign this week. I need a bit of rest. I love …

: PC Journals My friend Todd has joined out Classic Traveller campaign, playing a retired bureaucrat. He’s started …

: A Event on our Podcast On our Traveller/Cepheus Engine/2d6 SF podcast we are running a fun user participation event - …

: Jones Cyrano - retired social science acadmic I rolled up a Cepheus Engine character tonight to use as an NPC. Rolled it STRAIT. Stats in order as …

: The Cepheus Engine and Traveller I had an interesting conversation last night with a friend who is working on a Traveller project. …

: Loving the simplicity of 2d6 Science Fiction Last night we played session 32 of our Classic Traveller Campaign, Into the Void. That’s the link to …

: Mayday, Mayday! For the last few days my friend CyborgPrime has been running the yearly Mayday, Mayday! online …

: Cepheus Engine Character Two A Cepheus Engine character I rolled up this week. Jahn Rax 659467 s 6 d 5 (-1) e 10 (+1) i 4 (-1) ed …

: Tahm Slykk This is the NPC I created for my Classic Traveller game last session. The PCs were looking for a …

: Traveller stuff I got from eBay this week.

: Modifying Character Improvement in Classic Traveller The PCs in my Classic Traveller campaign have all gained two skill levels over the course of several …

: Skills in Classic Traveller We often to talk about Traveller skills being “big”, that they often include subskills. In my …

: A New Classic Traveller Book I posted Ref’s Notes to the campaign blog for our Classic Traveller campaign. As I stated in that …

: We played our Traveller campaign yesterday. Four hours of fun on Roll20. So happy to be back at it. …

: Boys from the Baltic Star Tonight I watched the Boys from the Baltic Star actual play Traveller stream on Twitch while I …

: Cepheus Engine SRD Version Usability Compared, Etc A few things I’ve noticed and/or thought about this week. SRDs Compared I compared the online …

: Cepheus Engine Character - Ral Partha This is the first Cepheus Engine character I have rolled up (see previous post). I have not equipped …

: First Cepheus Engine Character Roll-Up I was off work this morning so I rolled up my first character using the online Cepheus Engine System …

: Finally restarted our podcast about Traveller, the Cepheus Engine, and other 2d6 SF RPGs. This one I …

: Non-Player Characters A confession. When I’m creating non-player characters for my Traveller game I don’t even roll a …

: Successful Classic Traveller Tuesday Night! Spent two hours prepping for our next session. It’s …

: 2d6 for the Future It is 3:48pm Sunday afternoon. I have a list of things I wanted to do for my Traveller game today, …

: Creating an EPUB eBook for my Traveller campaign star map and descriptive material.

: A Cepheus Engine Blog I Love Last year I came across this blog, Adventures in the Distant Fringe, which I immediately loved. It’s …

: Traveller Books Are Here (from 2017) Reposting from March 11, 2017 Well, thanks again to the Ebays, I now have the Traveller boxed set …

: When I Re-acquired Classic Traveller Reposting from something I wrote in March 2017 I had the bug the other night, so I ordered an old …

: My History with Traveller This is a repost of something I wrote several years ago as I was returning to Traveller, the …

: This is a test post for a blog about 2d6 science fiction roleplaying games. More later. Testing …



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