MegaTraveller - T5 conversion?

[Jamalen]

Hello All,

My first post so please be gentle!

I have owned the Megtraveller books since their release over here in 1987, I recently wrote and ran an MT campaign over last summer, and I have been writing a sequel to do this summer, with most of the Charaters and players returning..

I preordered the T5 CD-ROM ( which i imagine will be in PDF format), how easy do people forsee will its be to simply convert all the rules/ships/players etc across to T5? and do people know what era T5 is based around?

I missed TNE and T4 and so on, I'm still on Megatraveller over 20 years later.. I'm hoping that T5 will be a lot better then the last Sci-Fi ruleset I bought (Serenity RPG... ).

Thanks,

--Alec (Jamalen)

 

[Andrew Boulton]

T5 is set in the Classic Era, c.1105.

PCs should convert ok. Other stuff, not so much.

 

[Jamalen]

Thanks Andrew,

I may well just pick ships out of the T5 rules then, considering that the PC have a free trader with only slight modifications it shouldn't cause me too many headaches...

Just need to find T5 matches for the bad guys ships...

 

[robject]

The general descriptions of the ships capabilities may work OK in T5. It's the little detailed stuff that may be off. And, if any of that detailed stuff is critical to your game, then some rework may be in order.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

In my games I've often used ships from different rulesets. It only becomes a problem if they start shooting at each other...

 

[Jamalen]

Ship to ship combat can get very complex and involved very quickly, I may well just try and "Script" the first few clashes, and hammer out the fine details in my own time

--Alec