Referee's Companion

Referee's Companion
Author		Marc Miller
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		MegaTraveller
Format		Book (Paperback)
Language		English
Pages		98
Year Published		1988
Canonical		1
Available from		RPGNow
ISBN 0-943580-71-4 Stock #0215

Additional rules for MegaTraveller campaigns. Expand the universe of MegaTraveller with more rules, background, information, and materials for the dedicated referee.

Description

Expand the rebellious universe of MegaTraveller with more rules, background, information, and ,materials for the dedicated referee. Materials that simply would not fit into the grand, three-volume MegaTraveller rules set have been brought together into one volume as the MegaTraveller Referee's Companion. This compendium helps provide detail to science-fiction campaigns, adds scope to MegaTraveller projects, and sparks interest in any adventure. The MegaTraveller Referee's Companion includes:

• The Alien Races: Coverage of the major alien races that travellers are bound to meet: the fierce warrior Aslan; the psionic Zhodani; the fragmented, canine Vargr; and the puzzling Droyne. Essays deal with the races' homeworlds, physical appearance and abilities, mental make-up, and interstellar territories. Coverage of their histories helps referees understand their backgrounds, making it easier to use alien individuals as non-player characters. Tables for word generation in alien languages make it possible for referees to add spice and mystery to everyday activities, and glossaries provide translations for known words in the alien languages.
• Large-Scale Combat: Rules for a simple system of converting characters into conglomerate units, resolving battles between these larger units, and reconverting the units back into individual characters. the system makes large-scale battles possible, without losing the detail of individual player characters.
• Timekeeping: A simple, direct system of tracking time for adventurers using the Imperial Calendar. Use it to make the proper date always available. Plus, details on alien timekeeping systems for when the adventure strays into foreign territory.
• Communications: Information on how starship communications systems work in the typical star system.
• In-System Operations: Details of what a starship is expected to do, and how it does it as the ship moves from jump point to a world and back again.
• Research: Coverage of the use of the Uncertain task to conduct important research into scientific, personal, or commercial ventures.
• Mapping: Map grids to help the referee design and generate any world, and present it with style as part of any adventure.
• Megacorporations: Names, ownership, and commercial interests of the 13 star-spanning Imperial megacorporations.
• technology: Details of the achievements of the standard tech levels inside the Imperium, plus information on the higher tech levels so rarely encountered.
• Robots: Information on robots, the work force for high tech Imperial worlds.

Credits

Design

Marc W. Miller

Additional Design

Frank Chadwick, Joe D. Fugate, Sr., Gary L. Thomas

Cover Illustration

James Holloway

Interior Illustrations

Jeff Dee, Liz Danforth, Tom Peters, A. C. Farley, Rob Caswell, Brian Gibson

Table of Contents

Character Cards	Inside front cover
Introduction	5
Large-Scale Combat	6
Small Conglomerate Unit Example	16
Convert Back	17
Combat Charts	18
Conglomerate Unit Conversion Checklist	19
In-System Operations	20
In-System Travel Times	21
System Travel	22
The Activity Checklists	24
Technology	26
Technology Charts	28
Robots in the Imperium	35
Communications	38
Megacorporations	40
Keeping Time	42
The Imperial Calendar	43
Comparative Years	44
Research	46
The Research Project	47
Aliens	49
Droyne	50
Zhodani	59
Aslan	68
Vargr	74
Large-Scale Campaigns	80
Mapping	84
Sector Map	86
Subsector Grid	87
System Map	88
World Map	89
Continental Map	90
Local Map	91
Alien Languages	94
Vilani Word Generation	95
Aslan, Vargr, Zhodani. and Droyne Word Generation	96
Sounds List	97
Blank Word Generation Tables	98