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I don't have any real knowledge of the Traveller system beyond playing with some old character generators from back in the Windows 3.1 era. I was always fascinated by the system, but never knew where to begin trying to tracking down a version of the rules. What's considered a good entry point into ...

Interesting. Thanks for the heads up, I'll go take a look at that thread. --Brennan

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had done any work on a 'conversion' guideline for using one or another flavor of traveller for building ships for VBAM/CSCR? The sort of thing I'm looking for is guidelines or formulas for generating CSCR stats for a given traveller ship and for converting the build ...

Is there a way to transfer EP from one power to another? I was hoping to also to find a way an advanced empire could help a primitive power catch up in tech, but that seems to be absent. If you haven't looked at them, there are a couple of treaty types in the campaign moderators guide which might h...

Others with more experience may have a better feel than I, but I suspect you would need to either scale those costs down or scale up the economic values (or a bit of both) to make it work. Looking at the example ship listings in the back of the 1ed book it looks like it is intended at least economic...

I'm a novice with VBAM myself, but I did have some thoughts regarding your questions: (1) How well VBAM handles large number of ships probably depends on how you set it up. One of the ideas I've considered using in a VBAM game with the built in combat system is to conceptualiz the 'ships' as squadro...

Has anyone done a conversion for using VBAM in the Fading Suns setting? It seems like it could be a pretty good fit. There is already an established star map and there are different factions that are often eager to clash with each other. I'd have to really read them (as opposed to skimming them) but...

I have recently acquired VBAM and am in the process of reading through the rules and working on some ideas for campaigns to inflict on a couple of friends. One of the ideas is that of an exploration game where all the players start from the same homeworld. I was wondering if this can work under the ...

Thanks for the replies! At this point I have purchased the core book PDF package and am working my way through a first reading of the rules. I am planning on starting with a small scale solo game, probably using just the rules in the main book. Are there any specific optional rules that people would...

Hello, I've been looking around at the VBAM Campaign stuff and it looks pretty interesting. As such I am seriously considering picking up that nice package deal of the core books in PDF, but I wanted to ask a couple questions first. (1) Has anyone here also played with the Starfire Ultra rules for 4...