CT Only: My OTHER 2026 31 Day Character Creation Challenge: BeltStrike Allies & Adversaries

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I undertook two character creation challenges this year, both Traveller themed; I posted these characters at RPG Pub, which is where the links go.

My goals were (1) to create a bunch of non-player characters for my BeltStrike campaign and (2) explore third-party character options for CT.

1 January - The Terrorist I
This character was created using GDW's Beltstrike (first term) and "Terrorists in Traveller" (subsequent terms) from The Space Gamer 46 (Dec 1981)

2 January - The Correspondent
The character was created using the college rules from "Scientists" in Challenge 29, the Engineer career from "More Citizens: Six New Classes For Traveller" in Different Worlds 15, and "Journalist Character Generation" from Travellers' Digest 2

3 January - The Home Town Hero
This character was created using "Interstellar Athletes" from Dragon 86

4 January - The Trauma Specialist
This character was created using GDW's Book 5 High Guard, JTAS 22 plus Challenge 29, and TSR's Dragon 55 rules for changing careers with GDW's Supplement 4 Citizens of the Imperium

5 January - The Insurgent (The Terrorist II)
This character was created using "RIPs in the Traveller Universe: Rebels, Insurgents, and Partisans" from Manzakk Publishing's Adventure Gaming 6 (this one's for you, Tim Kask). I also took the Persuasion skill from DGP's Travellers' Digest 2, which she picked up using the oft-overlooked sabbatical rules in The Traveller Book

6 January - The Gambler
This character was created using "Swords and Stars: The Expanded Barbarian Class in Traveller Game" (by Roger E. Moore) in SPI's Ares 16 (Winter 1983) with career changes as per TSR's Dragon 55 to Other from The Traveller Book and Rogue in Supplement 4 Citizens of the Imperium

7 January - The Patriarch
This character was created using GDW's Alien Module 2 K'Kree

8 January - The Translator
This character was created using GDW's Journal of the Travellers Aid Society 28

9 January - The Bodyguard
This character was created using GDW's Aliens 2 K'kree.

10 January - The Commander
This character was composed using a blend of GDW's Book 5 High Guard and Aliens 3 Vargr

11 January - The Scientist
This character was created using "Creating Alien Races in the Traveller Game" by Roger E. Moore in SPI's Ares 16 and GDW's The Traveller Book and "Scientists" in Challenge 29

12 January - The Minder
This character was created using "Creating Alien Races in the Traveller Game" by Roger E. Moore in SPI's Ares 16 and GDW's The Traveller Book

13 January - The Monitor
This character was created using GDW's "Scientists" from Challenge 29, Supplement 4 Citizens of the Imperium, and Alien Module 6 Solomani; the Civil Engineering skill is from "More Citizens: Six New Classes For Traveller" in Different Worlds 15

14 January - El Cantinero
This character was created using Cargonaut Press' Scam: Rogues in Space Vol II and GDW's Book 7 Merchant Prince and Supplement 4 Citizens of the Imperium; career changes were handled in accordance with "Filling In Skills: Experience, Service Switching Make Traveller More Ability Oriented," from Dragon 55

. . . end of part I - I hit the character limit

 

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Part II . . .

15 January - The Boss
This character was created using "Rogues of the Galaxy: An Expanded Traveller Character Class" [sic] from TSR's Dragon 97 (May 1985)

16 January - The Enforcer
This character was created using "Criminals: An Alternative Livelihood for Travellers" from GW's White Dwarf 19 (Jun/Jul 1980)

17 January - The Hacker
This character was created using "Scientists" in GDW's Challenge 29, "More Citizens: Six New Classes [sic] for Traveller" in Chaosium's Different Worlds 15 (Oct 1981), and GDW's Supplement 4 Citizens of the Imperium, with career change rules from "Filling In Skills: Experience, Service-Switching Make Traveller More Ability Oriented," published in TSR's Dragon 55 (Nov 1981)

18 January - The Watcher
This character was created using GDW's Adventure Module 2 BeltStrike and "Criminals: An Alternative Livelihood for Travellers" from GW's White Dwarf 19 (Jun/Jul 1980), with a career switch using the rules from "Filling In Skills: Experience, Service-Switching Make Traveller More Ability Oriented," published in TSR's Dragon 55 (Nov 1981)

19 January - The Pickpocket
This character was created using "The Underworld: Some Shadier Interstellar Services" from Chaosium's Different Worlds 33 (Mar/Apr 1984)

20 January - The Pirate
This character was created using GDW's Adventure Module 2 BeltStrike and The Traveller Book and Mongoose's Book 9 Pirates by way of the career change rules from "Filling In Skills: Experience, Service-Switching Make Traveller More Ability Oriented," published in TSR's Dragon 55 (Nov 1981)

21 January - The Mole
This character was created using GDW's Adventure Module 2 BeltStrike and "The Underworld: Some Shadier Interstellar Services" from Chaosium's Different Worlds 33 (Mar/Apr 1984)

22 January - The Special Agent
This character was created using "Military Academy: An Option For Mercenary," in GDW's JTAS 10 and Book 4 Mercenary and "Ministry of Justice Special Branch" in High Passage 1 (1981)

23 January - The Inspector
This character was created using "Scientists" in GDW's Challenge 29 and Cargonaut Press' Starport Planetfall.

24 January - The Detective
This character was created using GDW's Book 4 Mercenary and "Star Cops!" from TSR's Dragon 113 (Sep 1986)

25 January - The Security Officer
This character was created using GDW's Book 5 High Guard and "The Underworld: Some Shadier Interstellar Services" from Chaosium's Different Worlds 33 (Mar/Apr 1984)

26 January - The Imperial Agent I
This character was created using GDW's Book 4 Mercenary, Book 5 High Guard, and "Military Academy: An Option for Mercenary," in JTAS 10, and "The Imperial Secret Service" from GW's White Dwarf 27 (Oct/Nov '81)

27 January - The Imperial Agent II
This character was created using "Scientists" from GDW's Challenge 29 and "IBIS: Profit and Peril" from TSR's The Dragon 35 (Mar 1980)

28 January - The Anarchist (The Terrorist III)
This character was created using "More Citizens: Six New Classes For Traveller" in Chaosium's Different Worlds 15 and "Terrorists in Traveller" (subsequent terms) from The Space Gamer 46 (Dec 1981)

29 January - The Assassin
This character was created using Paranoia Press' Scouts & Assassins.

30 January - The Bounty Hunter
This character was created using GDW's The Traveller Book and "The Underworld: Some Shadier Interstellar Services" from Chaosium's Different Worlds 33 (Mar/Apr 1984)

31 January - The Friday
This character was created using GDW's The Traveller Book - the Other career and the sabbatical rule - and "Scientists" from Challenge 29 and "The 'Other' Option," from TSR's The Dragon 35 (Mar 80); the bonus character was created using GDW's Book 4 Mercenary and Supplement 4 Citizens of the Imperium and "The Traveller Politician: Diplomacy and Intrigue in the Traveller Universe," from TSR's The Dragon 32 (Dec 79)