Daryen's Traveller Page
What's NewMy favorite role playing game of all time was Traveller. Today, the version of Traveller I played is known as Classic Traveller, but at the time it was just Traveller. While we never actually did the adventure (we detoured badly in the first episode), the start given to our group by The Traveller Adventure sustained our group for a solid two years. (Even today, if I had to get rid of all of my Traveller material, the two items I would keep are The Traveller Book and The Traveller Adventure. To me, those two volumes are The Quintessential Traveller.)
85 Reasons
I made an off-hand comment on the Citizens
of the Imperium Discussion
Boards about creating a list of "77 Reasons CT is
Great". Many
people made suggestions, and the list is now at 85.
Instead of just
letting the list pass away, I am preserving it here.
Daryens
At the time I really liked the Solomani and the Sword
Worlds.
I think the main reason was because they were not the Imperials,
who were
portrayed as the default "good" guys, but whom I did not
perceive as overly
good. Plus they both were presented as the "bad" guys,
making them
even more irresistable. However, in my reinvestigation of
Traveller,
I found the group whom I most like (and would gladly be part of)
are the
Daryens.
Since there does not seem to be a great interest in them, I figured I would strike while the opportunity is present and start profiling them. Hopefully this will end up being the definitive site on the web as it regards the Daryens.
Note that while the Imperium calls them "Darrians", they call themselves "Daryens". As I am trying to do this from their perspective, it seemed more appropriate to use their name instead. I also used the Daryen spelling for the three other worlds so changed in the Regency Sourcebook (Illium -> Yelim, Rorre -> Rore and Spume -> Zbume).
Floriani
I had seen the Florian League mentioned several times, and they
had
always intrigued me because of their "two races within a race"
concept.
They haven't been detailed all the much, but I still think they
are interesting.
Behind the Claw Maps
After getting Behind the Claw, and being severely disappointed
by their
idea of interstellar maps, I have taken it on myself to make
some CT versions
of GT maps. And the areas of the biggest changes are the
independents.
So, here are some CT style maps
for Behind
the Claw.
Dot Maps
While working on some other projects, I made a dot map of the
Domain
of Deneb to try and keep things straight. I now have dot maps of
the entire
domain for several time periods.
Landgrab
I have officially placed a Landgrab
on
four Darrian worlds. I had thought about doing more, but figure
the ones
already grabbed still need more detail before I can think about
moving
on. The main focus on all of these is the Classic Traveller
period (with
some GT wrinkles thrown in). Over time I hope to cover the 1248
era for
these worlds, too.
Shipyard
I have also toyed with various ship designs. I have only
used
High Guard and GURPS Traveller, but ships from both systems can
be found
in my Traveller Shipyard.
Links
Finally, Traveller is all over the Web. Please take a look
at
some of these sites on my Links
page. Also,
be sure to check out the Citizens
of the Imperium Discussion
Board, Avenger
Enterprises
Forums,
the Traveller
section of the Mongoose
Forum, and the Traveller
section of the SJG
Games Forum.
Downloads
Here are some of my favorite utilities. A couple of them
are
on my site, but I try to direcly link to the providers' download
pages
when possible.
This is a direct link to DED's
Dice Roller. 
Atomic
Rocket is a tremendous resource for a layman's application
of science
to science fiction.
Comics
I am completely amazed at how many webcomics there are out
there.
And many are quite good. All four below are science
fiction based,
and the first two definitely have that "Traveller" feel to
them.
I definitely recommend these strips and would encourage anyone
reading
them to spend the day or two it will take to start from the
beginning.
They are great.
Also, be sure to check each site's links and check out the webcomics they like. There is a lot of really good stuff out there.
IMTU tc+ tg+ ge pi jt- ta-- da++Page last modified 2/17/2009.
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