Traveller: Mysteries on Arcturus Station - RPG Overview
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This collection of two investigative adventures aboard a space station can be played individually or as a series. 'The Hunt for Sabre IV' is written by myself, as the Travellers must uncover the conspiracy behind and locate a stolen ore carrier. The second scenario is my revised and updated version to J. Andrew Keith's 1983 classic 'Murder on Arcturus Station.'
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Guest starring Jack the NPC.
I used the hunt for Sabre IV as a one shot to teach people on Fantasy Grounds how to play/example of playing Traveller. I love it because it brings out the best in Traveller as a game.
I'm not at the end yet, but I already need Jack reading rude emails.
"Dear Mr. TheNPC, how do you type with boxing gloves on?"
Goddamit, another smartass.
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@@nicknumber1512 I only just found out a month or so back StrongBad had a UA-cam channel. Blast from the past.
SPOILER : Regarding the jack the NPC post-credit comment... Imagine that the players didn't believe the guy was being mind controlled and just close the case, but a couple adventures down the line they either end up with another case where the culprit claims mind control (or maybe they just see a news feed about a case... or multiple cases) and/or they get investigated themselves as possible co-conspirators for what would be essentially a cutting edge frame job .
Hell, Omega could be playing long cons with later NPC investigators, using her powers to gaslight them over time into believing they have been tracking the true conspirators with (fake) notes and clues they wrote themselves but can't remember how they learned them, leading them to blame the PCs.
Two thumbs up.
Players not fully completing an investigation because they think they already solved the mystery sounds like the perfect set up for long term consequences in any setting.
I'm hanging my hat on Omega getting away with theft and murder. Reinforcing why psionics is illegal in My Traveller Universe.
I will eventually have news clips playing during travel between planets of a mysterious psion terrorist but Hunt for Sabre IV & Murder on Arcturus Station is Omega's origin story.
Ooh, Seth has hit the big time! I'm sure that Jack will start pushing for a substantial raise.
He's already started. He loves leaving me passive-aggressive Post-It notes about how he's unappreciated, can't afford enough booze, and how I'm exploiting him.
He really needs to talk about the bonus situation.
@@gmradio2436 maybe some kind of profit sharing situation?
Fantastic job, Seth. The re-tooled version is really outstanding. I am looking forward to working it into our ongoing campaign; relocated to some suitable out-of-the-way belt in the Spinward Marches.
Yeah, getting screwed out of a paid job is the worst. That's the easiest way to light the fire of motivation for pc's.
The fire was SUPPOSED to be that you guys were on the hook for the murder because he screwed you outta the money and everyone knew you had the motive to get him back. Getting the money owed by solving the murder case was intended to be a bonus to the whole "not going to jail for a murder you didn't commit" part. On the bright side, you guys at least found motivation somewhere. I still call that a win. Little did I realize your character would have done both jobs for a free smoothie. Coulda saved myself a lot of effort there.
@@SSkorkowsky never underestimate the power of a free smoothie.
@@SSkorkowsky With my group , I learned never to use "going to jail for a crime they didn't commit" as a motivation. The one time I tried, they ignored any opportunities to clear their name and turned it into an A-Team campaign.
I had to rewrite the last 3/4 of the campaign to change them from being agents of the crown to being hunted by crown agents.
I'll stick with free smoothies for motivation.
Congrats Seth. I enjoyed your review of Murder on Arcturus Station and I'm so glad you got to include your feedback and provide a decent prequel adventure.
I definitely need to pick this up.
My players might kill me if I try and introduce another game system, but that doesn't mean I won't try.
Do not worry, you will be more powerful as... What kind of undead are you aiming to become? Vampire? Wraith? Whatever!
How I am doing it in a fun way is running a weekly short game/one shot. Each game is a different system so we can see which systems we like, so far we have a dnd game, witcher, alien, and vampire the masquerade set up
@@azunthewise4914 Hopefully the end of year finale will include all four of them mashed together : D Wouldn't actually be too difficult, Witcher's "conjunction of spheres" allows for any portal shenanigans you want, and they've already let in much worse than a xenomorph. Also Higher Vampires in that setting are practically VtM already.
Outland. One of the best forgotten sci-fi movies of the eighties. Some amazing model work there and just a great story. Wild West in space.
Greatly under-rated, agreed. And somewhat surprisingly, the novel adaptation is a good read too - Alan Dean Foster must have done 80% of the scifi movie adaptations that have come out during his lifetime, while still writing a whole bunch of entirely original sf of his own.
True, though I kind of prefer the pit cell idea to zero gravity ones...that part of Stargate SG-1 just stuck in my head as a really effective way for a jail cell.
Well it is basically High Noon in space
Your channel helped get me and my group into Traveller and we're loving it! We love your videos, man. Keep it up :)
Awesome to hear. Glad you're all enjoying it. It's a great system.
Seth just wanna say I’m super happy for you. If anyone deserves a fun opportunity like that, it’s you. I don’t play traveler, but I promise I’ll pick this up if I ever start!
Hope things are well for you 👍
Fun idea if you go with the psychically controlled character route, but to still have another killer. To add another twist, have the victim already have been dead from an earlier suspect going in and doing the terrible deed.
But when the player character goes in, they're under mind control and arent in the right state of mind to notice "oh hey, this guy is already dead. Job done I guess." After all, the only thought going through their head is "go there, stab/shoot him."
This leads to conflicting evidence about the nature of the true killer, leading to the travellers assuming there really is a frame job going on, but in actuality, there is no frame up... just two different people trying to murder at two different times.
This could be fun!
Killer #1 poisons the victim, they die in bed.
Killer #2 sneaks into the bedroom and shoots the victim, using a pillow as a suppressor.
Killer #3 sets charges on the hull of the station, blowing out the bulkhead and ejecting the victim into space in a fireball of explosives and burning oxygen.
Congratulations on getting to write/ update these adventures. The true culmination of decades of gaming.
I love that companies are starting to publish your stories as official supplements/games. Will definently pick this one up on payday
I played the original back in the 80’s ...! At that time it was amazing.. I’ll have to check this out .
Congratulations to you for being able to write a Traveller Adventure that is published. Traveller is one of those special RPGs to me.
I love that JTAS cover art, it feels a lot like those shows from the 70's like Space 1999, very dynamic and quite an interesting ship design.
Also, my God the number of possibilities with these adventures seems almost limitless and that's before Jack takes it to another level at the end!
Your pride in this book is well-deserved. It's coming up in the rotation in my campaign and I can't wait to see how the group handles it!
Congrats Seth! I just purchased the adventure from Mongoose. Looking forward to running this. -Cheers
Hope you and your players have fun and make some kickass memories with it.
Interesting stuff. I love the idea of the mind wipe and have used it in Call of Cthulhu for other effects (when I ran Fear of Flying from Fearful Passages). I like the idea of making either hthe player or someone else murder the victim, wiping their mind, and then having the travellers find clues that lead them to the wrong murder suspect. Genius! Thanks for another interesting review.
Thanks, man.
Speaking of gravity prisons there's an episode of Stargate SG-1 where O'Neill gets trapped in an alien overlord's prison. His cell is a thirty to forty foot long dead end hallway, and the cell "doors" are a switch by the entrance that shifts the gravity in the hallway ninety degrees. Changing the 40 foot long hallway into a 40 foot deep pit.
Yes! And he gets tortured by Baal dropping acid onto him, one drip at a time. Such a diabolical sci-fi oubliette!
Oh yeah, Ba'al was a great villain, and that was a cool prison idea(barring the "if power goes out there's nothing preventing prisoner escape" issue that so many cool scifi prisons have.)
@@RipOffProductionsLLC it's amazing how many high tech sci-fi villains overlook the player character's low tech answer of just cutting power
@@RipOffProductionsLLC and that was a cool prison idea(barring the "if power goes out there's nothing preventing prisoner escape"
Only if the real g force isn't it being a 40' pit or just as bad the pit is the other way around causing a 40' fall if the power fails.
Congratulations getting the adventure published Seth!
Awesome when things like this happen, I love it when everybody wins!
We used The Hunt for Sabre IV for our first playtest game of Traveller and loved it.
Awesome to hear! Welcome to Traveller.
Gonna run this for my group, thank you for updating the adventure in such a way. Your videos got me into Traveller, and so far I'm enjoy it greatly.
"Agatha Christie stuff in space!" There is a tee-shirt I would buy!
Image on the shirt is the drifting corpse of an old lady suffering from explosive decompression...
I truly was waiting on this one :D
We played Murder on Arcturus station lately (basically because of your review) And it was a blast.
I had to adapt it to my own RPG universe, so some factions, names and such differ - but in essence it was the same adventure.
However, the moment I finished the setup (the moment the players were informed that their former employer had been found very very dead in his room) it took quite a different direction as expected (which... in such a situation IS what one should expect I suppose)
So besides questioning witnesses and inspecting evidence, they also had, at some point hide from station security (mainly, because it turned out the commander of the military part of the station, an avid collector of ancient alien artifacts, was head over heels in some artifact smuggle scheme, together with the murder victim who happened to be the envoy of the imperial xenoarcheological society). So it also had sneaky break ins in some locations with vital evidence, hiding from guardsmen and a glorious handcuff clicking scene in the commanders office.
And all due to some random dice rolls, notes and just rolling with it. 10/10 would murder someone again*
* an NPC. In a role playing game as a DM.
You are now a game God from my perspective I've always wanted to write a campaign and have some on else play it and give me feed back .
Honestly, I'm always leery about scenarios where the players characters are made to do things outside of the players control, even moreso outside player knowledge. While it sounds like a good story to read, you have to be very careful about who would be made to be the psion's pawn, especially since the setup seems to have no way of avoiding it, at least with how you described it. Maybe you go into more detail in the module itself, but that route feels rather heavy handed in having to learn after the fact that the woman they talked to mind manipulated and then memory wiped them. I know it would certainly take away from the mystery if they made some kind of "random" resistance roll while chatting with an NPC, but as a player I'd at least feel better about it afterwards if a roll had been made on my behalf, like while chatting if she's successful the scenario goes as planned and the character lacks al alibi because, when questioned, the player has a conspicuous gap in their memory now that they think about it. If the attempt fails, Omega aborts the attempted indoctrination, but not before the player gets an uneasy feeling, so when someone else is set up and is seen on cameras talking to that same woman in the same manner, the players has reason to suspect something.
I've been, DM to player, manipulated into doing bad deeds. It needs to be handled with care and with the right people otherwise the player can easily become rightfully resentful.
I very rarely comment on anything. That being said, Thanks must be given to those who earn it, I'm relatively new to traveller, but long time ttrpg player, Your video on the original arcturus station blew my mind and when I eventually got the pdf of your updated version I jumped at it without question. I've since ran it once and I'm planning to run it again to my new group within the Drinax campaign. I think you:
1) Did justice to a very good adventure.
2) Did a favour to us; your viewers with a very neat and equally good prologue with the adventure you wrote.
3) Acomplished your goal of bringing the adventure to a new crowd and generations of players, both present and future since I plan to run this also for mi kids on game nights when they are old enough to play ttrpgs.
So for those reasons: THANK YOU SETH
Hey Seth, your channel got me into table top RPG in the first place and you've inspired me both to try my hand at writing adventures and even to try and write my own game.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the content and inspiration!
Happy to be of help.
Kicking this off this week.
Using it as an intro taste for new players to Traveller.
Whoa! I just now realized you’re close to 100k subs. Dude, this channel rocks.
I like this, and the base scenario could also be used for different rpg systems.
Just bought this adventure, can't wait to get started! Thank you!
Hope you and your group have fun with it.
Just picked up a copy of the pdf for Chaosium’s new Keeper Tips for Call of Cthulhu and was very happy to see your name in the credits. Looking forward to reading this.
I'm fixing to run this soon. I started my players with Flatlined, then Death Station (per your suggestions), they are trying to get to Tobia to get a Scout Ship that one of the Travellers are expecting due to her muster out benefits...but I'm putting them through the hoops first! I'll set this somewhere near Tobia or the Islands sector, that they have to complete before their "free scout ship" is ready and they end up playing High and Dry. I've been converting it to Fantasy Grounds, as we all play remotely these days...still, thanks so much for all the great videos. My Traveller campaign has greatly benefited from your reviews and commentary, not to mention your "Mysteries on Arcturus Station" module! I bought the pdf and the physical copy, well worth it!
Good luck with the game.
Just played this for my group. Some of the NPCs were really liked by the players and I am using them for the rest of the campaign! Thanks for you and Mongoose's work on this!
I ran the 83 adventure a couple of years after it was first published. My shoot--em-up gaming group didn't like all the sleuthing, so I threw in a big fire fight and pirates at the end of it. :)
He changed the spoiler warning! That made my day. Its the little things that matter, keep it up.
This reminds me of the Old D&D modules that referenced monsters with only a few stats, if you wanted full stats, you had to buy the Monster Manual.
Congrats and well done sir.
Thank you very much.
The only "problem" I have with the new version is that Omega being the killer is so much more interesting as an option that it makes the other options kiiinda second-rate. But I think it'd work great if the other players already suspect her so it'd be easy to pull the rug under their feet.
I just ran a version of this adapted for Star Wars as a one-shot. The three suspects were M'Banke (whose name I changed to Pell Solosan), Urshukaan's wife Sharik, and a Wookiee character inspired by Eayukheal. One of the PCs was a Trandoshan, and in the Star Wars universe, Trandoshans and Wookiees are sworn enemies. So the Trandoshan player saw the Wookiee arguing with Urshukaan and wanted to find him later and possibly start a fight. The only problem was, the Wookiee was at a computer terminal the whole night trying to hack Urshukaan's secure files to delete some blackmail he had.
After failing to find the Wookiee in the cantina, the Trandoshan and one other player decided to go look for his quarters, which were attached to Urshukaan's suite. They had been keeping track of the clock as the night went on, and suddenly I had two PCs standing right next to Urshukaan's quarters at the time the murderer (Solosan) was supposed to emerge. In a panic, I shifted the timetable up an hour and decided that Urshukaan was already dead, and now was actually the time when Martin (reskinned as a Bothan named Kai Uf'la) was going to return to the suite and discover the body.
Instead of accidentally catching the murderer red-handed, those two PCs ended up getting caught loitering outside the scene of a murder, which provided excellent motivation for them to investigate who the real killer was. Thankfully, my altered timeline managed to fit the events the PCs had personally witnessed, although I had to scribble the correct times down in my notes so I wouldn't keep saying the original ones. It was my first time GMing, with two players who were completely new and one who was still very green. It took us six hours to finish, and we had a blast!
Running this tonight. Wish me luck.
Best of luck. Hope you all have a blast
It's awesome that you're now writing these!
Was hoping for a jumpsuit Jack scene: "What happened to the old lead in scenario? It's disappeared...without a trace"
Ok nice video. Book on the way. Thanks! Going to check out the pdf now.
I am for sure getting a copy of this!
Great video as usual! Congratulations on the opportunity to update and improve a classic.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Traveler 2022 rulebook update.
I like the 2022 update. Art looks good and feel the Ship Creation rules are a worthy addition. No entirely new Traveller rules are introduced in it, so those who already have the old 2e Corebook don't have to get the 2022 one unless they just want to.
That's sooo cool! I'm so proud of you!
Just wanted to say that thank you Seth for all the traveller related media you've done, your introduction part and flatlined review is why I'm running Traveller next. We've already had a session 0 and oh boy my players characters are.. interesting to say to the least. Journalist turned noble, and due to good rolls early and good rolls in mustering out got to 15 SOC, and even higher but since thats the hard limit I had to make them reroll those benefit rolls but they would've had an effective rating of 19 SOC if they didn't reroll. Is just one of the many wild characters in this party. So keep being you, keep being awesome and even if I'm not that interested in Call of Cthulhu or similar I'm still here to support your amazing content.
Didn't a 15 on SOC means the Character is a Planetary leader?
@@rommdan2716 No, it means a reputation equal to such a position, they aren't a planetary leader in actuality, just the same amount of fame.
@@Noob2Ever So, they can speak to everyone in that planet if they want it
Congratulations, Seth!!!
I bought it right after watching the video. Very well done. I have a potential follow-on adventure where the CEO's successor hires professional rabble rousers to incite violence as a pretense for purging the worker's union and replacing it will new crews willing to work on the companies' terms. The station manager would again retain the services of the crew to help stop the violence, circumvent the plot, and expose the corporate foul play.
That's a good followup. If the PCs are going to be bouncing around the neighboring systems for an adventure or 2 in the period after this adventure, they might hear about mercs heading to Arcturus to become belters as well as job postings for tons of positions from deck crew, sensor operators, miners, pilots, etc. but who this big-time employer is isn't mentioned. They just know that someone is hiring a lot of people and passengers of would-be employees are coming in by the shipload. Then the Station Manager calls them up and says, "Hey gang, I might have a problem I need you to help me with." Or maybe when they show up back on Station 3 they notice some jerk merc they encountered once in a previous adventure is now a miner causing problems. This leads them to discovering a dozen more mercs from that jerk's unit are spread out in various positions across several crews, all causing trouble for the union with their rabble-rousing. Maybe crews with the ore-carriers are jumping away with their cargo and when they arrive are all fired and a totally new crew on non-union workers steps on and jumps the ship back for the next ore load with some BS story about how the old union crew all quit. I like it. Hope you have fun with it.
The adventure alluded to in Murder On Arcturus Station was published in on of the Traveller's Aid Society's Journals I believe because I ran my Traveller group thru it and Arcturus Station many years back!
Thank you so much for creating new Traveller content. It is my favorite game, and unfortunately the one I have played the least.
Very nice Seth! Thank you :)
Fun fact, Matt McCloud also has a video of him running a group through this very adventure for those curious.
That station on the cover looks like a 80s or 90s toy that shoots discs. XD
I have been waiting for this one for a while. Wasn't sure when you were gonna do it but glad u finally did it
The big wait was for the print versions to release. Experience has taught me that if I'd done the video back when the PDF first released, and said, "Print edition will come later this year," I'd have still gotten a flood of, "I can't find the print edition," and "When is the physical print book coming out?" and "I notice there isn't a print edition. This only supports my totally incorrect theory about the state of the RPG industry which I will now rant about," replies.
@@SSkorkowsky sadly probably a good call lol. You are like in my top 5 of people who upload with some good amount of time in between each video but I will always wait patiently cuz it is gonna be a home run video. Haven't failed me yet and I was here for your first uploads. Keep it up man.
Congrats on the dream come true man! Sounds like an awesome adventure to pick up as an intro for a new group.
I have plans to pick this book up as soon I’m able to. Looking forward to reading through it.
Seth, this is so cool! I am definitely picking this one up.
Love this, i ran it last year after watching the old video. now i want to run it agian!
Your Traveller videos actual inspired me to purchase the game to play with my group at some stage in the future (after we finish out Call of Cthulhu campaign). Looking forward to checking this one out.
That spoiler warning was the best one yet!
Not far from 100K subscribers, Seth. Can't wait to see that silver UA-cam plaque sitting behind you...right beside your minis, game books and novels.
ICr50,000 each? Standard recovery fee for lost or stolen items is 10%. What's the replacement value of the missing interstellar ore carrier ship plus its full payload, I wonder? And Lamarck Mineral probably won't even have to pay it themselves, their insurance company will.
Wow! Congrats Seth!
Congrats, Seth!
Always happy to see an upload Seth. I hope all is well.
its so cool that they gave you this opportunity!
I love these Traveller modules.
SPOILERS: Ahh, my group had an absolute blast with this adventure. I set it up as a mini-campaign with their choice of pregens. Then I decided to randomly roll the murderer and got Omega. I read the murder descriptor and started silently cackling. Particularly since I remembered Seth's comments about the adventure needing a helpful bartender NPC, and I decided that rather than some random business woman the freelance agent Omega got a job as bartender in the station casino bar. Subtle access to psion pretty much everyone on the station, an ability to keep an ear of the rumor mill, and being positioned as a helpful friend to steer the investigation along when the investigators are wracking their brains at the bar. It went great. Possibly the best adventure I've ever run.
Awesome to hear.
Have you looked at "Twilight's Peak"? I think that's a classic.
That's awesome man, congrats 😎🤘🍻
Cheers Seth , always love your stuff.
Seth is using that Psi ability now...... errrrm .....what was I typing?
Great overview. I have the original module.
Also, part 2 then changes to Ghost in the Shell! Amazing
Wow, congratulations!
Hello Seth, recently the new edition of 2300AD came out and it uses the mongoose traveller system. As a fan of the original game, I was wondering if you would consider reviewing the new edition?
Gotta admit, "Agatha Cristie, But In Space" is pretty dope.
Purchasing Now!
Thanks!
Hope you enjoy it.
Seth is Mr No Loose Ends!
Yeah, the day he shuts down his UA-cam channel he's gonna seek us all out armed with a flamethrower... just you wait.
Got this when you announced it was coming out. When I get around to running it, I may move the station closer to the spin ward marches, and have the Casino run a sort of Kino style game where they use a mass driver to launch spent meteors at the sun and people bet on what area of the sun the meteor will hit.
Hoping to hear news soon that you are writing an original Traveller adventure for Mongoose 2e
Congratulations!
Seth! I missed you man! :D
You are the man!
An American knowing an obscure British title of sub-nobility, now that is truly impressive 👌, I had to remind myself that I knew that. I suspect most British people wouldn't know, but I'm not British so I can't confirm.
Love this version of spoiler warning to players... ;-)
I've always wanted to adapt a Chult version of Traveller . Giant Jungles with advanced dinos that are much smarter then regular dinos and about half the size as I imagine dinos in the modern day would be smaller more fleet and evasive like the birds and rodents have to do in the modern day. As the ecology supports a smaller body but the appeal to have giant bugs is just too appealing and a gigantic mosquitoes the size of players might be something players would find satisfying potentially having memories of mosquito bites.
Outland was great, but their ideas on gravity were a little wonky. Great that the story got an update, better yet you did it yourself!
Hello Seth Great review and looking forward to running this So Question is will Mongoose reach out and say ask you to do Adv 2 Research Station Gamma or Adv 6 Expedition to Zhodane I think you could do these and give great justice to them!
I have no idea if they will re-do those adventures, or who they'll ask to do them. But I'll go ahead and say that I am involved with one more Classic Traveller adventure getting an update for Mongoose. I can't say which one until they announce it, and I have no clue when it will release. I will say that my update and changes added 50% more length to the manuscript, which I wasn't planning to do, but I'm pretty pleased with the results.
7:00 "If you spoil yourself, you have no choice but to run it and let your GM get to play for a change."
Nice! I'll send the next Adventure Review you make to a player, telling him "You got to watch this, it's hilarious, and I won't run it anyways".
If he likes it and asks "Why you don't gonna run it?" I'll say *"Because YOU do!"*
Hey kudos, man!!
Congratulations! Awesome job on the module. What a great line to have as your first (module) publication. PS. Does this mean in the NPC world Jack is now running around signing autographs and drinking imported rotgut?
Here's another idea. Have the Murder on Arcturus Station adventure go normally, but then they bump into Urshukaan later, revealing that he faked his death to manipulate the stock price for Lamarck Minerals so he could buy shares at the lower price, then wait for the company to bounce back so he could sell the shares for a massive profit. Not only that, but he HIRED Omega to do the job and make one of the players or other suspects take the blame. As for the dead body? That was an body double.
That, sir, is devious as hell. I dig it.
Oh shit that actually works? I'm off to tell WOTC that someone needs to make an official spell-less ranger, they must have just not been told.