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I don't see any reference to sunder in the original post...

Traveller is a good example of a level-less system. And while your character gets stronger pre-game as you do the chargen, it doesn't get materially stronger once in play. Making your character more fragile at higher levels can be accomplished in almost any leveling system by leveling the foes...

I like PCs to have superior stats, a step above the ordinary. I think players just like feeling a little special and not on par with all the other folks in the village. As to what different it makes to the game, well, honestly very little. I tune my games to challenge the players. If the party...

As other's have noted it means, first off you are playing in a system that allows sundering and second, that sundering actually gets used with enough frequency that that failed sunder attempt is noteworthy. It is highly system and style dependent but for any game I've ref'd or played in in the...

Given that description, I'm not sure I'd create alignment planes. You have plenty of planes to use already and specifically want your gods in unaligned planes. Since inspiration doesn't seem to be striking, just omit the extra planes. The lack of inspiration for aligned planes may be your...

Agreed in principle but not in practice. Sure, Paris has ancient roots but aside from the reference to the city, do you really want endless Paris Hilton jokes? Whether or not you know that the name has an ancient pedigree, it is the modern connotations that players bring to the table that are...

The other thing I like about Traveller in the end is that it is a nice rules-light system. I've toyed with some homegrown rules light systems and honestly it isn't hard to make one since, by definition, they don't have a lot of rules. Where my systems founder are all the collateral you need to...

156. Party sees the same person three or four towns in a row. 157. Everyone in a town stares at particular member of the party who happens to look like someone else. 158. A place where three streams come together and vanish into a pool whose water level does not change. 159. Party hears a woman...

It's hard to help without knowing more about the planes and your world. For instance, for the planes you aren't struggling with, have you already established a method by which you demonstrate the plane's alignment? A short answer: consider just a single plane apart from the prime plane. In the...

Don't they have a little book format out? I like the big books myself and stayed away from the little format but I saw them listed. I remember the old books being at the mercy of the staples and falling apart easily. I'm sure these came out in various add-ons by various publishers but the...

You have the iron man option (you die :)) but the standard method is to suffer a mishap. I kind of like that better to be honest.

Traveller was one of those games I spent a lot of time on in high school and early college, not so much playing it although there was some of that but playing around with character and ship creation. Eventually, I drifted from it dissatisfied with how it played: it was a little too "realistic"...

I think loyal groups will form but at the start of a relationship while players are sizing up refs and fellow players, their is little loyalty. For those that never desire to have (or have the good fortune to find) such a stable group, they loyalty might be quite low. I think it is just human...

If I recall my high school calculus correctly, the gravity inside a hollow sphere is zero. The gravitational pull of the shell cancels where ever you are within the shell, be it the inner surface or some point above the inner surface. As a thought experiment consider the 2D case of being...

I agree you want to use travel encounters to suite the campaign but for me it's more a matter of degree. I might go light or heavy on travel encounters depending on the campaign needs but I'd never dispense entirely with them. It seems one of those versimilitude things to have *some* time spent...

I like the standard movie and book method: show a little bit of the travel with an encounter or situation to overcome and suggest the rest of it. It depends on the campaign but often you can work something useful into the trip that might demonstrate something about the world, plot, NPCs. The...

I would find names like that very hard to swallow. I'd like to say it would be depend on the book or game but honestly, I would have a very difficult time seeing past it. Pet peeve? No doubt but it just seems either disrepectful of the reader/gamer or extraordinarily unimaginitive of the...

I've noticed it for years and it is not intermittent. It's during the day. I'm pretty sure it's because I'm from North America and the trans-oceanic links are pretty bogged down during the day. While I do find it annoying by 7PM Pacific Coast, it's quite accessible. If I try accessing it during...

Just bought Mongoose Publishing's Traveller books (some deck plans, High guard, book 1, mercenaries) for my son (he's almost 13). He wants to ref his own game and likes hard science fiction. Traveller seems a good for that; we'll see how it goes.

My worst dry spell was a few years ago and was cause entirely by World of Warcraft. My gamers started playing it, soon D&D sessions turned into more WOW talk than D&D team. I was game to try it to so we agreed to stop D&D and we ended up focusing on WOW for abour 2.5 years. The theory was we...