From Greg Caires…
Author: Bob L
SAFCOcast 18: Classic Traveller Combat, Mailbag, and other Stuff
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Our main topic, inspired by one of our SAFCO Mail Bag submissions, is a discussion of the combat procedure from Classic Traveller.
We also go through some great mailbag submissions, discuss the Central Supply Catalog supplement for Classic Traveller, Timothy Collinson’s Generation-X Traveller book, and Internet Finds!
Thanks to everyone for listening.
Relevant links:
- Timothy Collinson’s Generation-X book
- Chris Chaudruc’s Nuts & Bolts Scrapheap Rumble: Robot Battle Rules
- Dragon #59, contains Skitterbugging (pg 26-32) and Exonidas Spaceport – A Traveller Adventure by Jeff Swycaffer (p34 – 48)
- A Cepheus Light Vehicle Chase, from Ancient Faith in the Far Future.
- July/August 2020 Freelance Traveller
- Starship Geomorphs 2.0
- Independence Games has Wendy’s Guide to the Fleets of Earth Sector, Volume 1
- Virtual Traveller: A weekend of virus-free online roleplaying
SAFCOcast 17: interview with Ken Patterson, about the upcoming Virtual Traveller event
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This episode is an interview with Ken Patterson, regarding the event he and Greg Caires are organizing for October 2020 — Virtual Traveller: a Weekend of Virus-Free Roleplaying.
The event can be found here, on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1205944649744350/
Jeff and I had a good time talking with Ken! We appreciate him coming on, and hope you enjoy the interview.
SAFCOcast 16: Traveller Session Recap, Imperial News, Etc
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In this episode we discuss their last Classic Traveller session (written recap here on Bob’s gaming blog). We also do Internet Finds, Imperial News, and Rules Finds.
Links and info from the show:
- Dragon #87 p 75: “Luna, A Traveller’s Guide – The Moon in Traveller” by Marc Miller.
- Cyborg Prime Games: Traveller RPG Ship Distance Calculator
- Darkest Stars #2 is out, from Omer Golan Joel and Richard Rose is out. https://www.darkestfanzine.com/
- Ron Stepp has started a FB page called Traveller Gaming in the Future.
- Greg Caires’ games can be found here!
- The maps Bob mentioned in the show: Space Cantina and Starport. Starport was actually NOT from DriveThru RPG, but from a series of articles from Freelance Traveller called “Finding your way around the starport“, by Benedikt Schwarz, which provides not only a great map but excellent write-ups of the facility over a series of issues.
Our theme music can be found on the Speculative Machines podcast!
SAFCOcast 15: Random World, Awesome Online Con Game, and Other Traveller Delicacies
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Weirdly we had no XBoat Transmissions this time! We need email!
In this episode, we get back to our Random Planet Generation project by reading about Algira, a planet created by Patrick Kanouse (full description below). Really nice work, Patrick!
We then move on to Internet Finds, including…
- Darkest Stars, a Classic Traveller Fanzine by Omer Joel and Paul Elliott
- Jeff finds two Traveller articles in online copies of the old Dragon magazine. Dragon #43 p 35: Traveller Adventure “Canard” by Roberto Camino is the first. We’ll post the other on our next episode!
- Stray RPG Thoughts. Just found this blog. Dude has amazing stuff about mega corps and the super rich in RPGs. Highly relevant for Traveller, Cyberpunk, or whatever. https://strayrpgthoughts.blogspot.com/
Our main topic was our participation in an online Classic Traveller Game run by Greg Caires, as part of the online offerings of this year’s North Texas RPG Con. It used Greg’s Sappers character class, which appeared in Freelance Traveller, September/October 2019: Character Generation Rules: Deep Space Rescue Corps: A Career for Classic and MegaTraveller.
We wrap up with News of the Imperium, a new segment in which we discuss upcoming convention games and events relevant for Traveller, upcoming or recent product releases, and anything else that fits. This time it included…
- Greg Caires tells us: PGHCon in Pittsburgh has gone online and their website says registration fees are going to a local food bank I believe and I’m offering a CT game in support. https://warhorn.net/events/pgh-con-online
Greg is running So Others May Live again… https://warhorn.net/events/pgh-con-online/schedule/sessions/725ff9de-6c7e-4ac8-8c47-c048b6900d9e - TravellerCon 2020: at this point it looks like TravellerCon/USA is going on as scheduled, Oct 9-11, in Lancaster, PA. Link: http://www.travellercon-usa.com/
- Patrick Kanouse writes: Hey there! Wanted to let you know that I’m planning on running Murder at Arcturus Station using Traveller5 rules for Gen Con Online. Still needs to be accepted, but that’s the plan.
- Gaming and BS podcast is on Twitch.tv – I watched Sean run Mothership. Really fun. https://www.twitch.tv/gaming_and_bs
SAFCOcast 14: Traveller on Roll20, Session Recap, and other Traveller Stuff!
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Note: Episodes 1-14 happened before we changed to a Traveller-only show. In those episodes we discuss some other RPGs. As time went on we realized we were really a Traveller-only podcast, and in Episode 15 officially made the switch. You will find lots of Traveller talk in 1-14. Just be aware.
In which Jeff and Bob discuss a very nice mailbag submission, recap the last Classic Traveller session of their Into the Void campaign, discuss their end-times transition to the Roll20 online system, and various other fun things like some rules finds! Also, Bob drops an f bomb that must be bleeped, thus revealing his true, dark nature!
SAFCOcast 13: Interview with Robert Eaglestone
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Note: Episodes 1-14 happened before we changed to a Traveller-only show. In those episodes we discuss some other RPGs. As time went on we realized we were really a Traveller-only podcast, and in Episode 15 officially made the switch. You will find lots of Traveller talk in 1-14. Just be aware.
We are honored and happy that Robert Eaglestone, of the Xboat ‘zine joined us for conversation on this episode!
For those who don’t know, Rob did a very successful kickstarter for a four issue Traveller ‘zine called Xboat: a Traveller5 Zine. It’s a great publication! Bob and Jeff talk with Rob about his beginnings in Traveller, the zine, and of course playing the game!
SAFCOcast 12: Session Report, etc
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Note: Episodes 1-14 happened before we changed to a Traveller-only show. In those episodes we discuss some other RPGs. As time went on we realized we were really a Traveller-only podcast, and in Episode 15 officially made the switch. You will find lots of Traveller talk in 1-14. Just be aware.
In this episode, Jeff and Bob discuss the length of the podcast, read some listener comments, look at the Classic Traveller rules for Cover/Concealment and the Medical skill, do a quick look at Gerry Miller Jr.’s excellet Agweedo-Girdena Traveller campaign, and do a quick discussion of our groups last Into the Void session.
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SAFCOcast 11: I won a contest!
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Note: Episodes 1-14 happened before we changed to a Traveller-only show. In those episodes we discuss some other RPGs. As time went on we realized we were really a Traveller-only podcast, and in Episode 15 officially made the switch. You will find lots of Traveller talk in 1-14. Just be aware.
This is a very rare SHORT episode! Only about 11 minutes! I quickly talk about a few things that have been going on, and about winning a great contest I didn’t know I’d even entered on the Traveller RPG Headquarters group on Facebook!
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SAFCOcast 10: Traveller talk and Superheroes!
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Note: Episodes 1-14 happened before we changed to a Traveller-only show. In those episodes we discuss some other RPGs. As time went on we realized we were really a Traveller-only podcast, and in Episode 15 officially made the switch. You will find lots of Traveller talk in 1-14. Just be aware.
In this episode we discuss our usual Traveller stuff, including some internet finds, rules we wanted to talk about from Classic Traveller, and of course start off with the SAFCO Mail Bag! This is long one, folks, but we did stay on-topic! There’s just so much cool stuff out there to discuss! Then we talk about something a little different, Session Zero of our upcoming superhero campaign, called SuperTex, using the legendary Jeff Dee’s and Jack Herman’s The Mighty Protectors: Villains & Vigilantes 3.0 system. We’ll be playing it maybe every three sessions, and will also play it when our whole SAFCO Traveller group can’t meet.
Relevant Links:
- Omer’s Quick and Dirty Classic Traveller Vehicle Combat
- A Classic Science Fiction Simulator
- SF Adventure Assignment Generator
- Classic Traveller Character Generator
- The Armed Packet – ship design from The Great Dungeon of the North – great blog.
- Monkey House Games – source of the Mighty Protectors! And here is where you can find the Character Record Sheet!
- Monkey House Games Youtube channel’s Mighty Protectors live play examples.
- Every Conceivable Horizon – a track from the Speculative Machines Podcast by Trent Straughan. Theme music for this episode and the next few at least.
- Stan Shinn’s Traveller Binder video!
- MP Writeups