Okay, so I just read a post on The Pirates of Drinax campaign for Traveler by John over at the Wandering Gamist. I still have a fondness for Traveler despite its flaws. It was the first science fiction RPG I played, back around 1978 or so. The character generation process was fun and I had a lot of fun generating planets and building sectors. However we never really found a satisfying way to run a campaign with it. We just did one-shot scenarios. The main concept for Traveler of being the crew of a small merchant trader (a la Firefly) didn't appear to us. Every now and then I pull it out and go over it again for a bit of nostalgia.
But John's post alerted me to The Pirates of Drinax, a free campaign for Traveler by Mongoose Publishing. The concept is that the players accept a letter of marque from a nearly-defunct kingdom which wants to return to its glory days. Essentially they are "legal pirates". It has well done intro information and a set of several adventures. It looks like it would be fun. Check it out.
Supposedly mercenary is the other crowd-favorite way to play Traveller (instead of tramp freighter). But yeah, Drinax (and piracy in general) does look like a pretty good time. I think they're only about halfway through publishing the adventures, too.
ReplyDeleteI actually attempted to download that. But the system failed when it didn't offer me a payment method. For a free product.
ReplyDeleteTry http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/travdrinaxintro.pdf ?
DeleteGo here http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/rpgs/traveller/adventures-and-campaigns/campaign-2-the-pirates-of-drinax.html and right-click on the links and "save link as..." to your computer.
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