Category Archives: Traveller
Gaming in January 2012
Inspired by Mike, I thought I’d write up a little summary of my gaming related activities for the month. On the boardgames front: January is OxCon month and all of my boardgaming too place there. I gave Civ a try … Continue reading
Chained Skill Checks
I’ve seen a lot of commentary about D&D 4E’s skill challenges but I haven’t drunk that particular bit of Kool-Aid yet (probably due to my only time using them being near the end of a session when everybody was tired). … Continue reading
Space is big, and this Subsector is empty
A few hours ago, I was unfortunate enough to be in a conversation which included this little gem (or something closely resembling it): “I need to set up a Wiki or something”, said Jim, “D&D dungeon crawls are simple enough, … Continue reading
Traveller open playtest
Mongoose have released a playtest document for Traveller. I’ve only skimmed it so far, and it seems to be little more than character generation, skill resolution and combat rules, but what it does have looks quite nice. Hopefully I’ll be … Continue reading