Cthonian Stars

I ordered this from Drive Thru RPG http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/91255/Chthonian-Stars-Core-Setting


2159 AD. It is a good time to be alive. The nations of the world still exist, but they have become more civilized, and we have expanded into the rest of our solar system. But, alas, it is not to be our time. Something approaches, a thing on an orbit from far away. Seemingly a large shard of dark matter, this object is known in obscure prophecy as the Chthonian Star. It is awakening things long thought lost or dead, things that have slumbered awaiting its return. The Unified World Council sends out special teams of sanctioned Wardens, whose job it is to ascertain the new threats to human life, to learn everything they can about them, and fight them wherever they are found.

Chthonian Stars is an original Lovecraftian horror setting for Traveller.

This Core Setting Book:

• Provides a detailed exploration of our fully colonized solar system, only a few hundred years in the future.
• Introduces exciting new optional character design rules, including advantages and disadvantages, as well as career half-terms.
• Introduces new rules for fear and madness, as well as optional rules for character survivability.
• Brings to life many familiar Lovecraftian horrors for Traveller, as well as a host of new and original ones.
• Details more than a dozen new spaceships.
• Includes three ready-to-run adventures, to get groups running quickly.
• From the award-winning team that brought you CthulhuTech.

Chthonian Stars requires the Traveller Core Rulebook to play.
This product is for mature audiences. Reader discretion is advised.

Mongoose Traveller Starter Set

(I just got this in the mail today from Mongoose Publishing!)

Valeria One to Valeria Two, increase thrust…Nail Beowulf before he leaves the gravity well and jumps…Good shot! Target’s main drive is hit, acceleration has ceased…Prepare boarding party. Tell them to watch out for any heroes…Matching velocity and rotation. This is going to be a good payday…
…Commence boarding…

Traveller is a science fiction roleplaying game of bold explorers and brave adventurers. The Traveller Core Rulebook contains everything you need to create one of these adventurers and begin exploring the galaxy.
Spaceports, ancient civilisations, air/rafts, cold steel blades, laser carbines, far distant worlds, and exotic alien beasts – this is the futuristic universe of Traveller, the original and classic science fiction roleplaying game.
Come visit the future.

The Traveller Starter Set contains:
Book 1: Characters and Combat
Book 2: Worlds and Spacecraft
Book 3: The Fall of Tinath
Giant blank Sector Maps
6 Pre-generated Character Cards

Traveller Book 9: Robots

Quick Overview

From the Third Imperium to Judge Dredd, robots rapidly become ubiquitous items on high technology worlds, and this book will allow you to construct, outfit and modify robots of any type with a simple to use yet comprehensive system.

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These are the 'Droids you are looking for!
An excellent system to create all sorts of robots, from simple to sophisticated dopplegangers. Well worth having for the Traveller player or Referee.

-Jeff

Pirates of Drinax

I ordered this today. I will review it when it arrives :)

Quick Overview

Possibly the greatest RPG campaign of all time - The Pirates of Drinax is a truly epic sandbox campaign that grants the Travellers a Letter of Marque and then lets them loose across an entire sector and nearly 600 pages of adventure to find their own destiny. Included is the Trojan Reach sector, Aslan characters and many new ships!

 

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Details

A truly massive Traveller sandbox, the Pirates of Drinax is packed with enough adventures and source material to keep even the most dedicated group going for years!
In the Pirates of Drinax, the Travellers play a band of adventurers entrusted by the King of Drinax with a letter of marque, permitting them to prey on ‘illegal’ trade within the borders of the vanished kingdom. The King hopes this piracy will give him the leverage he needs to restore Drinax to its former glory, and intends for the Travellers to win back all the planets lost over the last two centuries – but the King’s plans are just the starting point for this campaign.
Once the Travellers have their letter of marque and ship, it’s up to them what to do next. Will they stay loyal to their patron and help restore Drinax? Will they turn rogue and create their own kingdom? Will they be heroes or monsters, pirates or privateers? Will they make their fortune amid the pitiless stars, or will the cold depths of the Trojan Reach be their grave?
The Pirates if Drinax comes in an attractive slipcase, with three hardbacks and a poster:

* Book 1: The Pirates of Drinax Campaign
* Book 2: The Trojan Reach
* Book 3: Ships of the Reach
* A giant 24” x 40” double-sided poster map

The three hardback books that form The Pirates of Drinax contain a full campaign, the Trojan Reach sector, rules and source material introducing the ferocious but noble Aslan, and many new ships unique to the Reach, along with a giant poster map featuring the Trojan Reach sector, the Floating Palace of Drinax, and the Harrier-class commerce raider.
The Pirates of Drinax truly has everything you need to run an action-packed Traveller campaign.

An Interesting System For A Traveller Adventure: Asmodeus

The planet Asmodeus is recovering from a nuclear war.
It has only about 20,000 inhabitants left. It seems to me to be a great place to have an adventure (as long  as one avoids the Zhodani authorities and mutants!)

The tech level of the planet has been generally reduced to sometime around 1900 or so, but there is some mass production on the planet, so pockets of tech are still to be found. The rest of the economy seems to be farming.... and barely above subsistence levels.

The Travellers could try to trade foodstuffs or tech, but I don't think that they will get much in the way of Credits. An emergency landing scenario would be cool, if you make the ship drop out of jump near the planet. Getting the characters into Zhodani space may be the most difficult proposition..... but I could see the Imperium contacting the Travellers for a mission OR perhaps the Travellers could be drawn into Zhodani space by illicit Psionics training or some such hook.

You could have an area of Asmodeus run by tech scavengers and wild bands of men ala Mad Max for some fun! They would be isolationists and generally off the radar of the Zhodani government because they are considered a "minor" concern.

Whatever the Referee chooses, One Night On Asmodeus may prove to be the Travellers' last!

Traveller Map Online

https://travellermap.com/
This online map of the known universe of Traveller is a real lifesaver. It allows you to print out sectors, sub-sectors and planetary systems easily.

Here is the main map interface, which uses the mouse to drill down...

Here is the info I printed to PDF on Regina in the Spinward Marches:

Traveller RPG: Element Class Cruisers Box Set

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990654819/traveller-rpg-element-class-cruisers-box-set?ref=user_menu

Traveller RPG Element Class Cruisers Box Set on KIckstarter!

(I'm a backer)
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Welcome to the Element family of cruisers, one of the mainstays of the Imperial Navy and a common sight throughout the Third Imperium and beyond.
This Kickstarter project is to create a brand new box set for the Traveller roleplaying game, detailing the three main classes of cruiser within the Element cruiser family, together with 10 massive double-sided blueprints that will allow you walk through each deck of the ships as if you were there...

(go to the Kickstarter link above to read more and become a backer!)

Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook

I am reading the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook today.
It sure takes me back to the days of Classic Traveller, but seems updated for better play.

The character generation tables are quite fantastic and Traveller really gives you a true back-story feel to them

Hopefully I will be playing this RPG soon on Discord.