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The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections

2021-01-24T15:56:00.003-06:00

Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game, Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue and The Tomb Complex of Nereshanbo. The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections is a collection of his articles from two of the Tekumel fanzines of the 1980s, The Imperial Courier and The Journal of Tekumeli Affairs. Tauknelin Zu'aryal: A

New version of The Petal Hack

2020-08-18T11:30:00.002-05:00

I'm doing some updating of The Petal Hack. I'm pulling some things from The Black Hack 2nd Edition, but keeping things mostly the same. The Class Features and Spellcasting are changing somewhat, but not drastically. I'm replacing the armor system with one from Macchiato Monsters. I'm updating Avanthe's Ample Bosom as well. But this is version 1.2, not version 2.0.Does anyone have suggestions for

Supernova! Starship Redux

2019-04-04T14:42:00.002-05:00

I designed a new ship for my Supernova! explorers. The Scout was too small and the 400-ton Explorer (in Cepheus Light) is just too big for my purposes. I settled on a 200-ton ship. I also wanted to try out the Cepheus Light starship construction rules. One nice note is that the CE rules use something close to the Book 5 fuel requirements for the Power Plant, which I also use with the Book 2

Traveller: Supernova! -- The Local Stellar Neighborhood

2019-03-07T17:11:00.000-06:00

Mapping I looked at Solomani Rim and the GURPS Interstellar Wars map of Sol subsector and it looks interesting. But I am not using the Imperium and there's a big gap rimward from Earth. So I have no incentive to stick to the same map. Sol Subsector - circa 2170 Stellagama Publishing's Near Space takes the latest astronomical data about the local solar neighborhood, including the current

The G+ Apocalypse

2019-03-06T18:42:00.001-06:00

This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel Email List Server https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Tekumel/info

Traveller: Supernova -- The Scout Ship

2019-03-05T18:05:00.003-06:00

I'm starting a classic Traveller campaign (described here) where the crew is exploring after a nearby supernova event. I've been putting my prep notes here. A few years ago when I was prepping to run a similar campaign online, I redesigned the Scout/Courier slightly using the High Guard fuel rules (posted here). Then two weeks ago when I started gathering the resources to prep this, I found my

Classic Traveller Campaign: Supernova!

2019-03-02T16:30:00.001-06:00

I'm going to be running a classic Traveller game with my biweekly face-to-face group. I tried this same idea earlier online but ended the game after 3 sessions because of a change in my schedule. I'm going to blog about my development process for the next few weeks. Elevator Pitch HD 147513, a white dwarf star in a binary system 42 light years from Earth, destroyed itself in Type 2a

Project Poll

2019-02-20T15:49:00.000-06:00

So I have several projects in various stages, and I'd like some help focusing on one thing. The projects are:The Narcosa Stashbox: a complete set of rules for playing in Narcosa as natives built from The Black Hack that includes an adventure, "Farmer Longbottom's Pipeweed".Neko Rōnin Yūgi (Cat Wanderer Game): this game is inspired by Usagi Yojimbo, a comic series by Stan Sakai. Anthropomorphic

Mana Points for Macchiato Monsters

2018-10-04T10:26:00.001-05:00

The standard magic system for Macchiato Monsters uses Hit Points to power spellcasting. This means magic users get fatigued or damaged as they cast more spells. This may not be how some GMs want magic to work. As an alternative, Mana Points could be used. Mana Points are a statistic only for spellcasters. They are used instead of Hit Points to cast spells. All other aspects of spellcasting are

Classic Traveller -- More Solo Campaigning, part 2

2017-12-05T00:57:00.002-06:00

This is the second in a series. The first is here. For my solo campaign, I decided that I wanted to try out a bunch of Gamelords' Traveller books. So first I took The Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (Gamelords, 1984). This presents a subsector in the Reaver's Deep sector between the Imperium and Aslan space. The rest of their products have hooks into this subsector, but are generic

Classic Traveller -- Characters for a Solo Run

2017-11-30T15:06:00.000-06:00

I want to run some solo characters through an adventure to learn and test out the procedures, since I haven't refereed for a long time. I'm using CT81 mostly. I should probably mention my character generation house rules. I am using the Optional Rule from p. 10 of Characters and Combat:Optional Rule: If the referee or player so indicates prior to character generation, then a failure of the

Random Tribe Generator

2017-05-31T17:28:00.004-05:00

The Petal Hack includes these tables for generating tribes for Fresh Off the Boat-style scenarios. Enjoy! Random Tribe Generator Start by rolling a d4, d6, d8, d10, and a d12.