Preparing for 💥EXCITING💥 Spaceship Battles in Classic Traveller RPG

[@Mikethemerciless11]

You want to add a little more excitement? Try having someone board another ship while in combat. They're not docked. That means someone has to get out of the ship, in a suit, preferably with a maneuvering unit, have a magnetic grappler with him, and go from one ship to the other, while lasers and missiles are flying around. After one of my players did that, I had to see if he developed a psychological problem with that, and he did. Good thing he rolled two sixes on making this attempt. What the team had to do was first match speeds with the ship they were pursuing, then they juiced the engines just enough to put it over a bit. They got close, he jumped, used the grappler tether, then he had to deal with severe Gs as the enemy ship was maneuvering around (near the rings of a gas giant, might I add - ice and rocks everywhere). He reels himself in, crawls to the nearest airlock, hacks into the door, cycles the airlock, and proceeds to shoot everyone on board, and repeatedly groin punched the pirate leader until the guy passed out. One of the most awesome sessions of Traveller we ever played.

[@thepickleddragon8590]

Back in the day, I player a ton of Star Frontiers. We eventually moved on to Renegade Legion Interceptor which was my favorite game well into the 90s. My son has been playing Traveller and has been trying to convert me. Its really hard to get my current group to play sci fi. My missions is to break the 5e stranglehold on them and open their minds to sci fi rpgs. Wish me luck!

[@andoniarangurenubierna5660]

Just give them cool guns and tools to use in Hand on Hand combat because compared to DnD they will feel that combat doesn't offer that many options.

[@TheRealSonBae]

Played in Roll20 and Foundry the last few years using Mongoose 2E and Foundry has a great set up and way to track EVERYTHING on the ship. Roll20 was getting there but not as good as Foundry. In person I’m a 3x5 and 5x8 index card guy for ships.

[@derekburge5294]

I am 100000% an index card man. No learning curve, no extra tabs to juggle; just me an' a slip o' paper.

[@blankmike4613]

Wow, in-depth to the max. I still have pee-chee folder fill of ships (ok most are 40 year old High School crap), but I have them. For the Agenda.

[@michaelsudsysutherland5353]

I still like the simplicity of 3x5 cards

[@mightyeroc7284]

Definitely an index card guy.

[@matthewesch8758]

No school like the old school... I haven't played with VTT, but prefer in-person TBH.

[@Ratenef]

Playing in person - physical Playing online - VTT (obviously)

[@RPGElite]

Not necessarily. There are people who play live who use VTTs as their tabletop for battles. So a hybrid is possible if that's your flave. 😉

[@TheMystic-Portal]

Tried finding your email, but it wasn’t on the about section, mind responding with it and then I can email you like we discussed 😊