Classic Traveller: Expanded System Generation

There's been a resurgence of interest in Classic Traveller across the OSR blogosphere of late, with posts from Chaoclypse, friend-of-the-blog VDonut and and a whole... slew (?) of posts from Old Hawkeyes.It feels like a good opportunity to share the expanded system generation procedure I've adapted from a Mongoose Traveller supplement, The Deep Space Exploration Handbook. This expands the variety of systems that can be generated using the rules as presented in Book 3: Worlds and Adventures, primarily through the addition of unusual and anomalous stellar objects. This is also the system I used to initially populate the sector I generated for the Galaxy 24 project.

PIA23685: What is a Brown Dwarf? https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23685 Brown dwarfs are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars. Generally speaking, they have between 13 and 80 times the mass of Jupiter. A brown dwarf becomes a star if its core pressure gets high enough to start nuclear fusion

So – given that a) mechanics aren't subject to copyright and b) this corresponds to non-commercial, fair use of the IP in those books – I hope you can get some mileage out of my interpretation of the system generation procedure, adapted for Classic Traveller.

Campaign ‘26: Exiles of a Thousand Islands, Session #08

I'm going to lead with  link to The Bad Doctor's most recent post (at time of writing) which has some great advice I'm not going to follow. I mean, I am an actual robot, how am I to escape the destiny of my flesh-shell? As Beyoncé herself once said we are all but bio-mechanoids... and who am I to contradict a Goddess?

Now that the basics are down, it's time for us to read about that thing that happened in the shared imagination of three people, and will now live (for a short time) in yours:

ENTER THE MAGIC GIANT LEECHES

Leeches by Munkao, taking from ATTI #03, Upper Heleng

Campaign ‘26: Exiles of a Thousand Islands, Session 7

This is a report concerning the seventh session of Pariah: Exiles of a Thousand Islands, an old school sandbox game set in [a version of] the world of  A Thousand Thousand Islands, as described in a series of zines and seminal adventure Reach of the Roach God, all by Zedeck Siew and Munkao.

Campaign '26 is a challenge issued by RPG blogger/man-mountain Nathan Bateman in this post:  participants pledge to run or play a game for most of the year 2026. I have sworn a sacred oath to run a PARIAH Campaign using the ATTI zines (and accompanying adventure, Reach of the Roach God) for the whole of 20026. 

A group of outcast hunter-gatherer elders and a gang of youths have crossed the perilous seas in dugout canoes and landed on a mysterious island. Though they are surviving off the land, they have lost one of their number to a tiger attack. The elders are looking to secure the future of their new home by contacting neighbouring settlements and spirit-of-the land, both in the Here & Now and through the parallel realm of the Dawn.

On their trip to Dawn they were informed that gold was to be found in a range of rocky hills to the east: this was confirmed by a mysterious crow-spirit, who offered to trade them the lives of their youths for some gold. They declined, electing to seek gold the old fashioned way. Previous session reports below:

Session 0

Session 1

Session 2

Sessions 3-6

A Sunda Crow

Solo Blueholme: Second Delve, Part 3/3

This concludes the write-up of a solo-game exploring the Stygian Library, using BLUEHOLME as operating system.  The previous post can be read here.

Aged philologist and wannabe wizard POLSTRUM had organised a second delve into the STYGIAN LIBRARY after previously failing to retrieve MAZIRIAN’S GRIMOIRE. In addition to his faithful servant, MAREK, he has enlisted the aid of the following adventurers:

• Larkin (Eliza Larkinkis), fighter 1
• Sirka, changeling fighter-mage 1/1
• Bastien, fighter 1 (a hired retainer)
• Emmeline, fighter 1 (follower of Larkin)
• Schmidt, Cleric 1 (a hired retainer)

Additionally, thief-for-hire Kurdt fled following his death and subsequent resurrection. After a series of bruising encounters the party may have finally reached their goal...

Illustration by Alec Sorenson