The spinward marches traveller rpg blog the zhodani base. Hello folks, elsewhere on a facebook traveller group, someone brought up a question about how often xboat couriers are sent and arrive throughout the various portions of the spinward marches which in turn set my mind off on a tangent. Spinward salvage is a company with a reasonable reputation, but it has been known to employ freelancers of somewhat more dubious reputation no doubt like traveller characters in your games. Traveller is an origins award winning science fiction roleplaying game published by game designers workshop in 1977. Ill have it in my hot little hands in a week or two. High guard at last, extensive rules for the personnel and starships of the interstellar navies of the dlassic. An interactive map of the universe of the traveller role playing game, incorporating official data and fan submissions. Thats the sort of thing you can do when youre planning a pdf only release. Spinward traveller is based on the award winning roleplaying game. An overview of the book the spinward states is also the lengthiest book in existence on the marches, clocking in at 186 pages. Set within the neutral zone of the spinward marches between the imperium and zhodani consulate, it chronicles the adventures of a husband and wife team of naval veterans. With peter trevors traveller universe program you can generate nice looking maps. Sure, there was the spinward marches, but essentially that just gave you a bunch of maps and numbers. On the far reaches of the empire lies the spinward marches, the frontier of the third imperium.
Get all the latest information on events,sales and offers. In the year 1105, the emperor strephon rules over an empire of eleven thousand worlds. A couple more images showing the underside of the stardrake class sdb, including one showing the launching of the ships boat. What it will allow me to do is if we change configurations, rooms or even the entire shape of the hull, i can make those edits in the. Close orbit and airspace control command and the referees companion. Here are a list of systems contained within the sword worlds subsector. If youre using the 3rd imperium as the basis for your campaign, this is useful info. This map was generated using the sector data, the trade rules from gurps traveller. I have the spinward marches book never read it and the gurps behind. A new set of rules, updating and streamlining the classic traveller rules. Mongoose traveller is a new set of traveller rules first published in 2008 ce.
The spinward marches map pack traveller scifi roleplaying traveller, book 0. The imperial fringe, is a complete adventure for traveller. The spinward marches map pack traveller scifi roleplaying traveller supplement 3. He has posted an example of the spinward marches using cosmographer 3 you can also make nice maps. If im going to run spacetraveller game ill use gurps space or gurps traveller. The spinward marches map is a full four color, 17 x 22 map of a stellar subsector which is already the subject several traveller adventures. It lies beyond the imperial border but links the outposts of five sisters subsector with the rest of the imperium. The rules are designed to harken back to the classic traveller days, using simple rules the 2d6 but updated to take advantage of thirty years of evolution in rpg design mongoose trav, 1st edition is known as mgt1. It lies beyond the imperial border but links the outposts of five sisters subsector with the.
If youre not using the official traveller universe, its less useful. The information in this book can, however, be used with other versions of the traveller game, and indeed entirely different rules sets. Traveller s 3 rd imperium setting is the longest running rpg universe, and a great one. Over the last year and a half ive been running a spinward marches traveller campaign using the mongoose traveller rules. The zhodani base has about 4400 proper visitors each month plus about 500 each month at the amber zone website. Black books from mongoose bring the latest version of traveller to your gaming table in a handy. Adventure opportunities abound between the frontier worlds of the marches and the trade hubs of deneb. Classic era, spinward marches, sword worlds subsector. Plus, i bought a copy of the spinward marches for mongooses the third imperium setting. Rancke chronology note 2009 be aware that the information in mongoose publishing the spinward marches mgt, although supposedly set in 1105, places the various imperial fleets in the position they were moved to after the fifth frontier war 1107 to 1110, utterly at odds with the detailed description of the conduct of the war in the spinward marches campaign. This pdf file contains a sector trade map for spinward marches sector.
It is a time when interstellar travel has become possible and humaniti has met other starfaring races. Next comes the merchant lines, which expands on the information given in the spinward marches book about the megacorps. Sworld worlds subsector mongoose traveller 2020 madbeardman madbeardman 20200429t21. Here you can find the spinward marches shared files. Net website in december 2010, and in the january 2011 issue of the downloadable pdf magazine. The adventure this is the age of the third imperium. The information presented in these subsectors are from the galactic program and from the tml landgrab. Launch your imagination into the traveller universe at jump 6. The bowman arm the bowman arm is a section of the spinward main running through district 268 of spinward marches sector. What happens when you rotate the spinward marches 180 degrees.
The spinward states, a totally outofprint pdf that offers the furthest future look to date at the spinward marches. The mongoose living campaign for their version of the traveller system. Freelance traveller critics corner mongoose traveller. The campaign is set in the spinward marches sector of the third imperium setting in they year 1105. One thing that it skimps on i get the feeling this is more feature than bug in the designers eyes is information about the imperium. Starting with the original traveller universe, mongoose will quickly be expanding the settings available for this game to encompass judge dredd, strontium dog, starship troopers and many more. Spinward marches the spinward marches lie on the edge of imperial space, and area that borders rival interstellar governments that direct. Business model for xboat couriers in the spinward marches. The official traveller universe otu is the primary setting for various editions of the traveller game, controlled by far future enterprises ffe.
Miller and first appeared in supplement 3 spinward marches the spinward marches sector was the first welldeveloped sector for traveller, and is, to date, the most published and writtenabout sector for traveller rpg adventures there is, to date, more adventures and story material written for the. I am trimming down my books and im leaning towards letting the mongoose traveller game go. Where can i read information about travellers imperium. This is the universe described by publications from gdw, ffe and mongoose publishing, and by past licensees such as digest group, fasa, imperium games and others, the setting includes the third imperium, zhodani consulate. The spinward marches map pack traveller scifi roleplaying.
I went back to the used book store the other day and got both coacc. I have spent the last 5 hours making an easily modifiable deckplan for our custom patrol corvette in inkscape and all i have to show for it is this picture. Against this background, two major shipping lines are developing their holds on the trade routes and are now caught in a cutthroat competition for a monopoly on trade and cargo transport. The site also provides services for generating custom maps and apis for incorporating maps into other sites. You are blamed for an accident that causes the death of several crew members.
Classic era, darrian subsector, spinward marches comstar games. Expansion was largely guided by the spinward main, with worlds lying off it receiving less attention at first. Traveller game summary edit main info sergei haultoberlindes, son of baron marc haultoberlindes of feri spinward marches 2005, trade magnate and owner of oberlindes lines, has been imprisoned by an anti imperial nation on ruie spinward marches 1809. A second edition of mongooses traveller was published in the spinward marches contains 2page summaries of subsectors within the spinward marches, the center of many adventures in traveller. Sectors of the imperium, part two 20091109 by shannon appelcline the rest of the notable imperium sectors, including the. However, there was no world of greyhawk for traveller. This book focuses on the imperial navy in the spinward marches, with some information on the rival and allied navies of the region. Please see trade map summary for a summary of this and other sectors trade information. This booklet is a free solo roleplaying campaign for traveller.
Download traveller the third imperium the spinward marches mgp3802. There is a brief description of the borders between the imperium, the sword worlds and zhodani consulate, but not a single map of. The company got its start after the 3rd frontier war salvaging wrecks and bases left behind from that war. The zhodani base traveller rpg blog all your base are. The setting is largely not covered in the core rules book, however supplements, set in 1105 and centered largely on the spinward marches are available. The pdf details several planets with a paragraph or 2 of information. Here is a scaled down version of the spinward marches map and tne data at the dedzone upside down. Privateering and prize money in the traveller universe. In particular the spinward marches sourcebook from mongoose publishing presents details of. Most of these are standard throughout all traveller material published during the games long history and apply equally to any other traveller material. When i go online to convert megabytes to petabytes, this is what i get. They must track down and expose a rogue naval commander who is operating totally beyond the pale of any. As ive never played in this world before, id like to do a fairly traditional setup in the spinward marches.
The bowman arm is a section of the spinward main running through district 268 of spinward marches sector. This 32 page booklet provides all the core rules for traveller, allowing new players to experience fun. Look out for the traveller rulebooks and core supplements, in their traditional minimalist black covers. I bought the mongoose traveller core book a while back and have been giving it a more thorough look over the last week. Far from the imperial core, fortune awaits the bold and disaster lurks for the unwary traveller. When mongoose took up the traveller license, they promised players a number of settingspecific sourcebooks, and speculation was proven right when the first of these turned out to be for babylon 5, which they have been publishing d20ogl rulebooks for for some time. The mongoose traveller book looks very interesting. Spinward salvage lic mongoose 1st edition traveller. Spinward encounters is set in the spinward marches sector of the third imperium, part of the official traveller universe otu and require only the traveller rules to play. A single copy of mongoose traveller rpg second edition rules, takes up about 48 megabytes of memory.
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