Adventure recommendations page 1

Sven2300

July 1st, 2003, 05:37 AM

I am planning to try out some T20 and run a short campaign. I am therefore looking for an adventure that can be played in 3-6 sessions. I am looking for recommendations - what is your favorite adventure?

While I know most of the old stuff, I am not familiar with much of the material for TNE, T4, GURPS Traveller or stuff that has been posted on TAS (I have TAS access) or elsewhere on the net. What have you tried and liked?

Please, somebody help me with some good advice on what to run?

Sven

Elliot

July 1st, 2003, 08:25 AM

Its not my fave adventure, but I always thought that the GDW Chamax Plague double adventure was a cool one to start players off on. That and Divine Intervention.

Mythmere

July 1st, 2003, 09:38 AM

If you are using T20 and have not played one of the other versions of the game (TNE, for example, is a different set of rules) you should know that the only published adventure so far for T20 is MJD's EXCELLENT Linkworlds mini campaign, which is actually free. (go to here (http://www.travellerrpg.com/eLibrary/#maps) and scoll up a bit). If you use one of the other adventures, the story will work but the statistics and other rule information would need to be converted.

Actually, the Gateway Domain released today has some adventures in it, too, if I recall. But I don't know how easy they would be to run. It's only available in PDF at the moment.

hunter

July 1st, 2003, 09:42 AM

Actually there is a free short-adventure also Odyssey (http://www.travellerrpg.com/eLibrary/Files/Odyssey.pdf)

and the full length Cold Fuzion adventure in the just release Gateway Domain sourcebook PDF.

Hunter

Ganidirsii O'Flynn

July 1st, 2003, 09:58 AM

Three more easily adapted CT adventures would be Broadsword, Prison Planet, and Murder on Arcturus Station. The latter is especially good as it really does play up the Solomani/Imperial conflict and could easily be set in Ley Sector.

Heilsa,

Ishtar

July 1st, 2003, 07:03 PM

I thought Nomands of the World Ocean was pretty cool. Of course, the 1st three classic adventures, when played together as a campaign, are IMHO da bomb. But they are too long for 3-6 sessions, unless you just play out 1 or 2 situations from Kinunir.
I don't care for any of the TNE adventures myself. Some of the published ones for T4 are kinda cool. Never read it completely, but Long Way Home looked kinda interesting. It's out of print but can be found.
--Courtney

Ishtar

July 1st, 2003, 07:07 PM

P.S. I strongly second the suggestion to check out Hunter's killer Linkworlds campaign. It can be broken down, too.
--Courtney

PapaGolfWhiskey

July 2nd, 2003, 03:11 AM

Add my vote to those suggesting the Linkworlds Cluster Adventure (The Kursis Charter)

It's T20

It's Free!

FANTASYFAN1968

July 4th, 2003, 01:31 AM

Also note that COTI has some prety good "seeds" in the Odd Jobs section. I'm going to use the Krucis Charter mini-campaign, and drop in Odd Jobs and Patron encounters to extend the campaign a bit. Hopefully by then I'll have some of my own design work done.

mad13142000

July 4th, 2003, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by LCDR J. R. Sinclair III:
Also note that COTI has some prety good "seeds" in the Odd Jobs section. Wow...I never read that section before - I just figured it was about some guy in a tank in WW2...
:D
-MADDog

PapaGolfWhiskey

July 4th, 2003, 07:57 AM

That's "OddBall" (Donald Sutherland rocks)

Oddjob was the smiling sumo wrestler in the tux with a razor edged top hat, in the movie Goldfinger.

mad13142000

July 4th, 2003, 08:00 AM

Hey, that's right...
And after I watched that documentary on Discovery about Fort Knox last night too...

:D
-MADDog

We now return you to your regular scheduled topic...

PapaGolfWhiskey

July 4th, 2003, 08:09 AM

At the risk of continuing off topic. the 'bond girl' from that movie had a ... Stunning... name.

Ben W Bell

July 4th, 2003, 08:59 AM

You're not talking about good old Honor Blackman are you?

PapaGolfWhiskey

July 4th, 2003, 03:35 PM

No the last name of the 'Bond Girl' was 'Galore'.

Tanuki

July 4th, 2003, 11:51 PM

Originally posted by Garf:
No the last name of the 'Bond Girl' was 'Galore'. She was named for her mother's cat: Pussy Galore.

graemlins/file_23.gif

Ben W Bell

July 5th, 2003, 07:46 AM

And played by good old Honor Blackman.

mad13142000

July 5th, 2003, 07:58 AM

(so TOTALLY off topic...)

None of the Bond girls beats Mrs. Bond (James' wife, NOT his mom).
She was the hottest of them all...
And natch - played by Diana Rigg (of Avengers fame)

:eek:
-MADDog

PapaGolfWhiskey

July 5th, 2003, 10:20 AM

Ah, I didn't know the name of the Actress.

Okay BACK to topic. It seemed so innocent at the time but not only have we derailed the train of thought we've ripped up the tracks and I think I saw somone there holding a match to a pile of sleepers.


The FREE gateway adventure is almost perfect for what you describe. I like it alot and Am trying to figure out a way to finish it in my new campaign.

Ben W Bell

July 5th, 2003, 12:57 PM

The Flaming Eye mini campaign published by DGP for Megatraveller is also good, wouldn't take much to transfer the plot from Rebellion era to earlier and just change the worlds if you want it someplace else. You'd have to redo the person stats though for T20.

Cymew

July 5th, 2003, 01:11 PM

Isn't the The Flaming Eye terribly expensive these days? If found at all?

BTW, this thread is interesting. Are there any reviews out there of all the classic adventures? I have no idea of which ones are good or not.

Ben W Bell

July 5th, 2003, 05:02 PM

True, it is pricey and very rare. But also up to DGPs usual high standards.

mad13142000

July 5th, 2003, 07:05 PM

So why does DGP get the 'uncanon' label when they produced more stuff than anyone outside of GDW, they produced 'high standards' stuff, and best yet, so much was written by the Keith bros...
I don't get it...

-MADDog

hunter

July 5th, 2003, 07:14 PM

Originally posted by MADDog:
So why does DGP get the 'uncanon' label when they produced more stuff than anyone outside of GDW, they produced 'high standards' stuff, and best yet, so much was written by the Keith bros...
I don't get it...

-MADDog Do a search for Roger Sanger among the forums to find this answer...

Hunter

mad13142000

July 5th, 2003, 07:56 PM

Copyrights? That seems awfully 'sour grapes' to me...You mean I can't write anything about the Traveller universe if I use a speck of info from a DGP product all because some economic terrorist POS wants to hold said info hostage??
That doesn't seem fair.
Why don't we just get together as a group, have RS declaired incompetent and have Hunter approved as legal guardian of the DGP licenses... graemlins/file_23.gif

RS - Seriously. Dude, you are giving your copyrights the value of $0 - I can say my toe jam is worth $400,000, but if nobody is going to pay it, then the reality is my toe jam is worth NOTHING. All the hard work of Traveller GODS like the Keith Bros. goes into the trash bin...thanks alot pal.

-MADDog
<grumble...I guess I'll stop paying $$$$ for DGP crap on Ebay then...>