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Great video, Page121 Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Looking forward to seeing your next upload from you. I pressed the thumbs up icon on your content. Keep up the excellent work! Your insights on the sector construction guide were really thought-provoking. Have you considered how the dynamics of player engagement might shift with the introduction of more complex socio-political structures in these game settings?

Can you do a video on how you run missile combat in AD&D 1e?

I have made sector maps with dungeon map software.

I agree that the stack of world maps was an odd choice. Those can be easily printed and I just now verified again that they’re available for download in the World Builder forms and templates on the Mongoose site. Seems like a way to artificially increase “page count” and justify a box. I would MUCH rather have seen additional blank SECTOR maps. For the same volume, and likely less weight, you could probably fit four or five of those in the package. If you had that many, blank front and back, think you’d be more willing to write on one?

Excellent walk through, thank you! FWIW: I find that Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford is my go-to resource if I want to sit down and meticulously plan out a sector, world, faction, etc. There are so many easy to use tables to quickly and thoughtfully generate what I need. Additionally, when I want to do spur-of-the-moment generation based on the game flow and the energy of the PCs, I use the Starforged Reference Guide by Shawn Tomkin and heavily leverage the oracle tables therein. There is an abundance of resources for the referee for game design and planning, and I find the hours I spend creating to be as fun as playing the adventures with my friends. Thanks for your content, and keep it coming!

Thanks for this review. I think you've confirmed my decision that if I do get this it will be as PDF rather than physical.

I bought this one too, and yeah I agree just getting the PDF, especially if you photoshop most of your stuff like I do but this is a very good product none the less. I'm a year new into Traveller and it was pretty fun to go through it, very addictive in a way lol. My one note is that most of the specific World generation stuff is referenced to the CRB'22 so you'll probably have to jump between the two books when you get to that section of minutiae in your sector generation.

I run space master 2e. The information in Silent Death I use to flesh out more setting info in the space master universe

Thank you for making this video. Now I know this product is not for me. For those who need a big sector map in electronic form. Go to the Zhodani Base and click on the maps tab, and scroll down to Blank Maps and download the "Huge Sector Map".

Great overview. Actually seeing the contents of the box is really helpful for anyone considering this product. So many product descriptions and reviews don't really spell out what you're getting for your money.

The thing with world maps and Traveller is how many adventures have you run or played where you visit more than a tiny portion of a planet? Drawing up the whole planet seems like a lot of wasted work when your player characters are likely to visit the spaceport and maybe a city and not much else.

It's amazing how well supported Mongoose Traveller is now. Everything is beyond my price range and I don't care for the 3rd Imperium, but there's so much available if you like it that it's incredible.

The only thing I wanted with it was a stencil that would let me make clean symbols. The pad of pages is to hand to your players so they can map out where they're going. Also It's very nice very completely homebrewed games.

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B.O.B. from Viva La Dirt League NPC D&D never read this.

That cloak is batty!

"Silent Death" and "Spacemaster" are both from I.C.E, and it is possible to fluff from Spacemaster in Silent Death. One could use house names from SM to make new houses in SD. Only Kashmere and Colos appear in both. While House Kashmere didn't start out as "Space Walmart," House Colos have always been schmucks.

Guys what the best edition?

Is there going to be a JumpPoint for 2025? The Games Plus event was a blast !

This whole series is wonderful. Thank you.

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We’ve had one of these in our game but the character who got it never uses it, what a waste!

This appears to be an exceptionally useful item for thieves, thief-acrobats, assassins, monks, and bards, especially if combined with Boots of Striding & Springing, or a Rope of Climbing. I could also see druids, rangers, magic-users, or illusionists finding it very useful.

FWIW, the text in UA does say, “The cloak also provides protection, just as a robe of protection (qv), at + 2….” This is an error, since neither the DMG nor UA have “Robes of Protection”. They’re actually referring to the CLOAK of Protection. Refer to the DMG pg 141 for details on the functionality of a Cloak of Protection.

This was a popular item at my table after the second time it was given out. The first player that had it didn't use it much, but the thief character that got the second one (different campaign) made this into a coveted item at our table.

A really fun item!

All characters in old school D&D (that survive) can be Batman. Attunement slots are dumb. D4 hit dice are awesome. :)

Thanks for the video! The Cloak of the Bat was a popular item with at least one player, I recall, in a friend's campaign. At first, it seemed a little over-powered but then the DM took it as a challenge to thwart that player and the campaign sadly devolved into a DM vs that one player game session after session. I think that player's family moved and we rebooted the campaign to refocus on whatever adventures were at hand in the sandbox.

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I am running a long term campaign in which my two kids ( 9 and 12 years old) are seeking an artifact which is inspired by the Rod of Seven Parts (they must seek the parts all around the world to assemble the complete staff). My version of this artifact has, amongst other things, the power of a rod of rulership. Thousands of years ago, the gods of Chaos and Law walked the world in their respective avatar and influenced living creatures directly. This brought constant wars in the world between Chaos amd Law. A champion was called upon by the gods of balance: they gave him an all powerful staff of Concordant Opposition which had the power to command whole armies into desertion from their Law or Chaos command. It also had the power to banish the avatars of the gods by touch for 1 million years. In a great war where all the avatars of the gods were present, the Champion banished every one of them with the staff, save one: the highest god of Chaos. This god offered the champion immortality and ascension to godhood, in exchange for the staff. The champion got corrupted and accepted the offer. The god of Chaos, being completely insane, destroyed the staff on the spot and banished himself willingly in the process. The staff exploded and its pieces are located in unknown places all over the world. Now, the first god of Law or Chaos who can get his hands on the complete staff through his agents will be able to reenter the world unchallenged by the other gods and extend his plane into our world (law is a flat empty dimension filled by a blinding light and Chaos is a dimension where no laws off physics are stable ). My players must recuperate the pieces of the staff before the agents of Chaos and law and return it to the gods of neutrality. The highest god of Chaos amuses himself watching the other gods competing for the staff

Rod of Smiting (right below) was always a favorite of mine. Do you need a proficiency slot to use a rod as a weapon? Maybe it is similar enough to a mace? Cheers!

Randomly assigned a treasure hoard live, and some low level PCs got this. They could not keep it from the halfling theives guild, however. Must have power to hold power

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After reading the description in the DMG years ago I have always avoided giving this item out. It seemed like it would unbalance the whole campaign.

It's easy enough to limit this item by simply giving it only a few charges. I believe that the one we found had only 4 charges in it. And it cannot be recharged.

Thanks for doing this one! I can see this item causing a major headache for our DM who gave it out without realizing what it does exactly. My character currently possesses the item and we discussed using it during a recent brawl with 100+ Bandits. Once I activate it, I fully expect the DM to restrict the usefulness in some way, kind of like a wish.

Thanks for the video! I totally agree that the Rod of Rulership is very much as powerful artifact. The possibility of the magic being broken opens some options for a DM to make this less absolute in some cases, limiting the scope of the Rod. I think as long as the wielder is suggesting / commanding the affected toward a task or action they might take anyway, I'd allow the affected to realize they were ordered after the turn of magic lapses but be fine with the results. I would require language be important and would also make the post-turn reaction hinge of how closely aligned or related the affected are to the wielder: a lawful evil orc is commanding lawful evil orcs would be closely aligned, lawful evil human is commanding lawful evil orcs would not be as close, a neutral evil human is commanding lawful evil orcs would be even less close, etc. Someone diametrically opposed to the wielder would probably rebel as soon as the turn is up. I think this is how to best limit the Rod's affects. I might also require multiple charges be used for repeating the act on a particular subject or group. I'd imagine with likeminded individuals one could utilize the Rod judiciously over the course of months or years to simply nudge a group toward particular actions or results and once the turn is over, the group might be predisposed to simply feel they were acting in their own interests under advisement. Just some food for thought.

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The Grav hammer could be used against a vehicle.

need some hearing protection/enhancement equipment for firefights with non-silenced weapons or potential negative effects in presence of multiple 165db level slug throwers

I really enjoy these JTAS videos, especially due to your love and enthusiasm for Traveller

Great addition to Traveller, weapon effects.

LOL, definitely Warhammer 40K Terminator vibes from the Gravity Hammer. Love it.

Did you say 280 ???? Hmmm I wonder how it would do against the big guy in Isle of the Ape 🦍…

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You might have convinced me that my next purchase should be the central supply catalog. Thanx mate.

Did 1e have any variant rules for magic systems?

In our group I created the Continual Light Flashlight. It uses a hard leather tube with a hole at one end and another hole a few inches in at the other end. A thonged cap fits on the one end. Slip an arrow through and cast the spell on the arrowhead (preferably silver). Take the cap off and it's a flashlight. Slip the arrow up and it becomes a lantern. And you can always use the arrow if needed to light an area ahead, shoot it as a signal or a silver arrow for those pesky critters that can't be hit otherwise.