So, as good as Rebellion is as a sourcebook, MegaTraveller never really did anything with the potential energy it contained. The metaplot doesn’t progress in a meaningful way, every new product just adds more and more details to the opening act and never moves on. When sales started to drop off, GDW attempted to reinvigorate […]
Author: Stu Horvath
For all the flaws of MegaTraveller, this book, Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium (1990) scratches an itch that was around fro more than a decade at that point. You see, for the most part, original Traveller books didn’t have much in the way of art. It got better with the re-launch in the early […]
Rebellion Sourcebook (1988) is probably the moment MegaTraveller shines at its brightest. Yes, I know lots of folks hate the Shattered Imperium, but let’s put that to one side. The sourcebook is dense with information, primarily detailing the THIRTEEN factions of rebellion that have risen up in the wake of the assassination of the emperor. […]
I like this James Holloway cover on its own merits, but I also like it as a visual metaphor for an already complicated RPG issuing an even more complicated rules expansion. So you already crashed your ship in the ocean. How much worse can it get? This is the Referee’s Companion (1988) and, I dunno […]
For years I’ve said I wasn’t going to paint miniatures. No talent, I said. No patience, I said. Too expensive, I said. I have enough hobbies, I said. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk about how I’ve started painting miniatures!
I am sure this will be a week of uncontentious opinions. Let’s take a look at MegaTraveller! This is the core box set from 1987 and it is the true second incarnation of Traveller (the little black box era and the big color box era of the early 80s often feel like two different games […]
Painting Miniatures
Paints, brushes and tranquility.
Dragon 74 (June, 1983). Jim Holloway getting in on some of that Elmore style dynamism with an action packed cover. This is a great one.