

The table where pirate encounters are rolled), that provides inspiration for Random piracy table (unfortunately buried in the spacecraft chapter, not near You’re asked to do, random targets for your mission, and even who the Patron tables (these are truly in-depth: they generate who your patron is, what It seamlessly moves into generating a fully-unique animal on the fly When anĪlien 'animal’ is encountered, rather than having hundreds of pages of animals, Random monster generator tables-this one is particularly impressive. “bounty hunters come to repossess your ship if you didn’t pay your With the law (that is, random legal complications tables for accidentally orĭeliberately breaking laws on strange new worlds)Īlso several 'honorary mention’ tables that interact with the random encounter On foot in a starport, rural area, and urban area,

Rulebook, there are random encounters for…ĭuring space travel (with different sub-tables for travel near a space port, in

Traveller really takes the concept of random encounters Part, I’ll talk about how each of these three systems interacts with, and in How to avoid some of the pitfalls that I’ve seen in play. System gives the DM a tool to pull the party out of the 'loop’ and into moreĬharacter creation system, and how it supports the previous two systems, and Spacefaring sandbox, and the ‘autonomous’ gameplay loop that follows. Spaceship mortgage rule becomes the drive for adventure and action in a Of this series, I described how Mongoose Traveller’s 13 notes JOn the Four Table Legs of Traveller, Leg 4: Random Encounters
