Rebuilt the design for the Patron card -- brightened up the colors, made some fonts larger, and got rid of some ancillary design elements. Also -- red highlights on "illegal" jobs. For the Salvage cards, I think I've landed on a point-crawl map design that I like.
We're $700 from from getting some nice tuckboxes and cover art for both decks. Come join the crew!
Hey folks. I've been noodling on these cards for months, sharing them here in the community, and I finally have the project ready for primetime. I really appreciate the feedback I've gotten here. Not a lot of positive spaces on reddit, but loving this one.
We're live over at Backerkit for 36 Patrons / 36 Wrecks, two card decks to help the referee run impromptu mini-adventures or act as hooks for further development. The project is funded and we're less than $200 from our first stretch goal. There's still time to pick up the free Cepheus Engine adventure Blood Ledger if you back us before about 10am Central US today.
We have a few add-ons -- the Star Traveller's Logbook and the Scout Captain's Rutter -- two player journals for your 2d6 space game. And another Referee Ready Scenario: Ghost on Shelis IV.
Hey we're looking for more players in our Tuesday Classic Traveller game which just kicked off. PM me if you're interested.
Time/place: Noon on Tuesdays (Central US). Discord.
Game: Classic (81 edition; facsimile/Traveller Book)
Setting: Third Imperium, Spinward Marches. Starting on Aramis.
Style: Spacecrawl. Players decide what they do and the referee responds with the world. Dice rolled on the discord. Shared whiteboard when we need it.
Character Creation: Either manually or using the batintheattic generator (interactive): https://www.batintheattic.com/traveller/interactive.html
I've had these for a while and just picked up the Subsidized Merchant deck. I solo'ed it a couple of times, but just not my cup of tea. Very interested in seeing how useful it would be to use the cards as adventure seed generators. A mission, some gear (rewards), NPCs, ships... Seems like a good way to spur the creative juices.
Nevermind that I've been a Jason Sholtis and Stefan Poag fanboy for decades, the Merry Mushmen (Olivier Revenu and Eric Nieudan) have put out a great sword & sorcery comic compilation. Looks like it's available on their site. Some great stories and art in this thing.
Hey ya'll -- my players were having problems remembering what to do in combat (maybe I was also forgetting...shush Brenda!), so I made some reference sheets for them (me). Traveller combat is a flow chart...so I made a flow chart. What you do on your turn. What you can do on your enemy's turn. And then a couple of forms to keep track of the relevant combat modifiers, etc.
It's built for Mongoose 2e and released via the TAS program PWYW over at Drivethru. Blog post here...
Let me know if you use them and if they need some tweaks or if something important is missing.
All the way back to Black Sabbath's The Wizard, through Hawkwind's association with Elric and Michael Moorcock, into King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the Sword, and hundreds of others there's a tradition of weird fantasy blended into "stoner rock" and heavy metal. What are your favorite bands and songs? Modern ones? And are there any other musical traditions that capture the s&s feel? Dungeonsynth?
Hey ya'll --
The patron / salvage cards are now in preview mode over at Backerkit. If you sign up, you get a free adventure. Both cards and scenario are in Cepheus Engine / Traveller / 2d6 spacey gamey stuff.
I posted a couple of mockups previously : https://www.reddit.com/r/traveller/comments/1vmsurd/36_patrons_36_wrecks_off_to_prototype/
I'm funding it this way to cover the cost of awesome art by Craig Brasco, J.E. Shields and others, as well as editing, etc. And frankly, I have some ideas for other mini-adventure cards, so I want to see if there's interest.
I'd love to know what you guys think. Looking to launch the campaign on the 25th! Hope to see you there.
Greetings!
Submissions are open for sword & sorcery fiction pieces from 1,500 to 5,000 words for our first two issues of 2027.
Guidelines/Details are here: https://www.swordsagainst.com/blank
First issue is here: https://www.swordsagainst.com/category/all-products
NOTE: There's also an open call for 500 word short stories for our monthly newsletter (same link above).
Looking forward to seeing some great sword & sorcery fiction!
Just dipping back into Leigh Brackett and wishing I could see it on screen.
Sent these two off to Drivethru cards to prototype. The little point-crawl maps are going to be professionally drawn - that's just my chicken scratch. Hoping to have them ready to go in September.
36 Patrons / 36 Wrecks. Mini-adventures for your 2d6 Space Game. Each is a two-sided tarot-sized card with everything the GM needs to improvise a session's (or more!) worth of hijinks.
76 Patrons is probably my favorite Traveller book. Zozer's Solo 2nd Edition is my second favorite. That emergent gaming soup is so rich and good for your table. Anyway - I wanted to see what it looked like in card format.
I ran a Classic scenario I wrote for T-fest in Austin this weekend. I think it went well -- the players had a lot of feedback and praise. It's very energizing to run for randos and feel like you nailed it. Hoping to share this one soon.
(Art by Craig Brasco)
Greetings,
I'm filling in for our group while the referee is out for a few weeks and thought I'd spread the word to see if we can get a couple more players.
The style of game is "drifter" - so you start out in the classic traveller vein of looking for jobs, system-hopping as you can, and working with your comrades to stay alive and travelling.
I'll be running a series of connected one-shots in a homebrew subsector using the standard Mongoose 2e rules.
Session 0 is Thursday 8/13, 6pm-9pm UTC (1pm - 4pm Central US time). Hit me up PM if you're interested.
More noodling with a Classic Traveller vehicle combat system (based on Mauloni's) and vehicle cards.
https://www.mysticbull.com/post/classic-traveller-wwii-vehicles-in-spaaace
Greetings. I'm the publisher of Swords Against! Picked up the proof today. So excited to finally have this thing in my hand. Preorders are still open.
Stories by Michael A. Stackpole, Dariel R. A. Quiogue, Julian Bernick, Candice Roma, and lots more!
https://swords-against-the-swords-sorcery-fiction-magazine.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Hey ya'll - my buddy Marcus just posted his re-do of the classic Traveller referee's screen over at DT.
He put a lot of work into getting the pages just right. Really the best one I've seen.
I did this one 10-ish years ago in White Star, but wanted to mess around with the form, so I converted it over the weekend to Traveller SRD/Cepheus/2D whatever.
https://www.mysticbull.com/post/the-last-transmission-a-traveller-srd-one-page-adventure
I want to give the party more to jenga in the area. Are there any other published adventures (living greyhawk, dungeon mag, etc) set in the Kron Hills or other nearby locales?
Farting around with a vehicle card for my Sunday game. This is classic Traveller with Mauloni's vehicle design/combat system.
Wow! Never seen this before.