Does anyone know the story about this edition? It does seem like it was intended to be faxed. 😅

Wait… did you even get to use fax machines? Geez, I’m old.

Anyway, while I didn’t play Traveller back in the day, this edition holds a special place in my heart. I had watched Seth Skorkowsky’s videos (I think he had completed the full series, not too long ago if you’re keeping score) and thought: this is the game I want to play. But I was absolutely broke. I got started with Cepheus Engine SRD, because I didn’t even know if my players would like it and didn’t want to spend money that I didn’t even have. I think I got this facsimile edition for $1, and I was ecstatic.

Granted, I had everything truly necessary out of the Cepheus Engine SRD, but I felt like I was chipping in somehow.

Thanks Marc!

For the longest time, I wasn’t sure if a Star Trek game would suit my table. But then they released the Lower Decks and fixed that for me. 😅

Darn. I still had two “quadrant one”s on this version.

I thought I’d fixed that.

Apparently my issue was a false positive. It seems Lemmy doesn’t like large images (even if small in size) but the message saying “too many pixels” was off-screen at that time.

I resized the image and reuploaded. Everything seems fine now.

Yes. PBTA = Powered by the Apocalypse.

Cepheus Deluxe aims to simplify many rules, and Position in space combat is a great example. It also replaces initiative (those with highest position choose if they want their action to happen before or after their opponent).

At the beginning of combat, pilots roll 1D + Piloting + DEX + Ship’s maneuver. This is your starting Position.

If you want to attack ships with higher Position than you, you get a penalty (or restriction… or maybe prohibition).

There’s also restritcitons depending on your weapon types (i.e.: fixed mounts are inflexible and may not attack without a favorable position). The Pilot must execute the Attack Vector action in order to allow the attack with fixed mounts (or main guns) when in an inferior position.

So, the position tracker/chart I made just lets you keep track how hard it is to hit your enemies.

I.e.: Ships placed in the top part have a better position than you; to hit them you need an Attack Vector, or to use Turrets. And you’d have a DM-3. You can hit those in the middle with DM-2, no other restrictions. Ships on the bottom are easy prey, you have a DM+1. Right area has DM0, and left area has DM-1.

So the chart/tracker is not… gamechanger, by any means. But I figured its a nice way to visualize the battle in a VTT. Perhaps someone will actually use it on a VTT and let me know if it was useful or at least cool to have.

I settled on Campaign Cartographer 3+.

It has a steep learning curve, but seems to be the most powerful tool by far.

Traveller Discord?

Yeah. There’s a very active Discord server for Traveller and all it’s variants:

https://discord.gg/xMvmatKh

😅 That’s probably beyond my skill level.

I’d go for ███ ████ or ██-█.

Thanks!

No hard rules at the moment. Though it’s hard to judge if a digital image is truly “micro”. ;)

Great! I’m taking you up on your offer.

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That thought has crossed my mind. At first I thought it might be too broad, but now I’m thinking otherwise.

Maybe Lemmy isn’t as big (yet) as I initially thought.

It’s… weird. There seems to be a lot of people who play it, but you’re right: we don’t hear much about it.

There’s a Discord server (not a fan of Discord myself, I get lost easily) with tons of users (and many publishers) very much active. Even r/Traveller has decent traffic (but r/cepheusengine not so much). There’s a relatively active T5 community at MeWe as well.

Maybe most players are happy to use Discord. Aaaand maybe I should be asking over there if there would be people interested.

Thanks!

Micromaps are quite forgiving. Maybe I can convince you to give it a shot sometime? :)

😅

Yeah… I considered a banana for scale, but decided it wasn’t a good option. ;)

Lol. Yes. They’re trees.

Legend has it, that some guy named Tolkien popularized that style. Of course, he was better than me at drawing.

Same place I bought this tiny ruler…